We can finally conclude, after a few quiet months, that the season of experimenting with summer video games has really begun, as Sony has given way to its big State Of Play press conference today, just one week before Geoff Keighley’s Summer Games Fest, which we can safely assume will bury us all under an avalanche of game trailers very soon.
However, the PlayStation company has had a good chance of starting the impromptu burial today, releasing a bunch of exclusive and great titles that will be out in a few weeks or next year, depending on where they are in the drum cycle. . (We also have a few more details about the PSVR 2, which is getting a lot of Resident Evil content every time it actually comes out; as eternally hopeful adopters of the original hardware, we can’t help but hope for a Successful release for new.)
Anyway, here are the most important State Of Play trailers today:
Resident Evil 4
Normally, it would be a bit of an accusation from a list of trailers that its most certainly exciting entry would be a remake of a 17-year-old game. But the new Resident Evil 4 is a little different, both because the previous Capcom remakes of the first entries of the franchise have been generally fantastic, and because Resident Evil 4 is, well … Resident Evil 4. Seeing the classic game running with the company’s latest engine. it’s certainly exciting; We can’t wait to see how iconic sequences like the village attack or the cabin defense look and feel when this new version of an old favorite arrives next year.
Final Fantasy XVI
When we first took a look at the Final Fantasy game in the 16th major series in 2020, it was remarkable how much DNA Of Game Of Thrones seems to have fallen into the standard mix of the series, however harsh violence and erased colors, and political maneuvers. All of this is still shown in the game’s new “Dominance” trailer, but there’s also a lot of goodies, especially in the form of a focus on the series’ beloved summons, which now acts almost like a kaiju as the game unfolds. war and fights. under his feet. Add to that a combat system that looks like an evolution of the heavy action work the series has been doing in Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Stranger Of Paradise, and is an intriguing package currently slated for arrival in June 2023.
Deviated
“The adorable cat explores the world of robots” would always be an easy sale for many people; there’s one reason Stray made our list of the most anticipated games for 2022. Now, finally, we have a little better than what it will mean to play the futuristic exploration game from BlueTwelve Studio: a lot of walking, a little stealth and some very nice cat noises. It’s still unclear how much Stray will cost once we have it in our hands, but the trailer certainly promises something unconventional.
Street Fighter 6
Let’s start with the highlight of the new Street Fighter 6 trailer: Ryu now has Dad! More interestingly, the Capcom franchise seems to be taking its single-player gameplay seriously once and for all, adding a “run around the city doing things” story mode that literally no one has screamed for. . That said, SF6 looks big, colorful, and technically demanding, which is probably exactly what fans of the franchise were expecting with its latest big comeback.
Rollerdrome
Honestly, we’ve never played one of Roll 7’s super sleek OlliOlli skating games and thought, “That, that would be better with some weapons.” But back then, we hadn’t seen a trailer as appealing as the exclusive PS5 Rollerdrome, which combines the animated look of the recent OlliOlli World from the studio and home with an old-school deathmatch-looking game. . The success of the game will be reduced to how it is handled, of course, but the trailer is a hellish first impression.
Calisto’s protocol
It can be said that this is a new sci-fi horror game from some former Dead Space developers because the main man has a light bar on his back that shows you how badly the monsters.
But we are fooled by The Callisto Protocol, which is not ashamed to show its Dead Space influences, and why should it be? This franchise could have died of an ignoble death, but its first installments are still unappealable, and the Callisto protocol seems to reproduce very well the atmosphere “hunted by the horrors in a dead spaceship.”