The long-awaited remake of the acclaimed zombie adventure Resident Evil 4 was the highlight of Sony’s online gameplay presentation on Thursday evening.
The 2005 original marked a radical change of direction for the Resident Evil series, with a new focus on action and a renewed “behind the shoulder” camera view to replace the crisp third-person visuals. A story posted on Sony’s blog after the half-hour event promised that the remake would preserve the essence of the game while “reimagining” the story, modernizing the images, and updating the controls. The game’s teaser also promised virtual reality content for PlayStation VR headsets. A release date of March 24, 2023 was given.
New trailers for Final Fantasy 16, the latest title in the Square Enix and Street Fighter 6 role-playing series, have also been shown, which includes several of the classic fighters and an extraordinary new visual style that combines realistic animation with Spectacularly explosive splashes of paint. Both expire next year.
There were also some intriguing new titles. Space Terror Adventure The Callisto protocol resembled Dead Space with its emphasis on the panic that space travelers were destroyed by aliens. It is the first Striking Distance Studios title, formed by Glen Schofield, co-creator of the Dead Space series. It will be released on December 2. We also spotted the beautiful third person action game with Rollerdrome cell shadow by Roll7, creator of the OlliOlli series of stylized skating simulators, and Eternights, an anime-influenced adventure dating simulator.
Perhaps the most appealing aesthetic of the night belonged to Season A Letter to the Future, a road bike racing game in which players photograph and document a doomed world before an approaching apocalypse. There was also a new trailer for the cyberpunk kitten adventure Stray, which also has a release date: July 19th.
We look forward to hearing more on PlayStation VR 2, a fully updated successor to Sony’s original VR headphones, which were released for the PS4 in 2016. With high-dynamic 4K images and two 2000 x 2040 OLED screens, he hopes to offer four. times the resolution of its predecessor, while the new drivers provide haptic feedback and adaptive activators, similar to the Dual Sense pads of the PS5.
The biggest revelation was a virtual reality version of Resident Evil Village, with a new trailer, perhaps predictably focused on the cult enemy, Lady Dimitrescu. There were also excerpts from The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Chapter 2: Retribution, No Man’s Sky running on PlayStation VR 2 and Horizon VR: Call of the Mountain, which featured a lot of climbing and ranged combat.
From the outset, Sony made it clear that there would be no announcements of major new first-party titles; sure to come later in the summer. But confirmation of a return of Resident Evil 4 and some tempting details from Final Fantasy XVI, with new protagonist Clive Rosfield showing a series of fire attacks, at least set the stage for a couple of months of announcements. of games. E3 isn’t this year, but there’s a big Microsoft Bethesda showcase on June 12th and a return for GamesCom in August. As for the hype of the gaming industry in 2022, we’re just getting started.