Veteran builders from The Witcher 3’s crew have introduced their new studio, Darkish Passenger, and their first recreation – which appears like Future however with ninjas.
Whereas a title isn’t set, it’s in improvement for Home windows PC (Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer), Xbox Collection X|S, and PS5. Particulars are scant however the recreation is described as a first-person, on-line multiplayer stealth/motion recreation set in feudal Japan, and its being made in Unreal Engine 5.
“Our purpose is to create extremely thrilling on-line experiences which are targeted each on cooperation and rivalry. We’re fascinated by interpersonal interactions, alliances, daring confrontations and surprising twists of occasions,” the sport’s web site reads. “In an effort to make each recreation distinctive and stunning, we’re utilizing superior, procedural options.”
The sport can have a locomotion system that permits gamers to “carry out unimaginable evolutions reminiscent of operating on arrows that have been fired by different gamers, quick climbing on vertical surfaces with using shuko claws or utilizing yari spear like a pole to leap over obstacles.”
The studio’s cofounders are former Witcher 3 employees Jakub Ben and Marcin Michalski, each of which having labored on the bottom recreation and its expansions. Whereas Ben was the artwork crew coordinator and cinematic artist, Michalski was an environmental artist and later was a senior artist on Gwent and its Thronebreaker launch.
Former CD Projekt RED builders splitting off to type a brand new crew and/or recreation is changing into one thing widespread recently. Key employees on each The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 lately launched a brand new studio, Insurgent Wolves, alongside their daring new RPG recreation.
Superior system of customization will permit gamers to create distinctive characters and modify their weapons and gear to their liking. They’ll additionally have the ability to create their very own Dojo – a private house the place they will invite buddies for coaching fight and motion.”