On the 2024 Video Recreation Awards final week, Naughty Canine launched the announcement trailer for its first new sport franchise in ten years. Referred to as Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, it’s centered round a bounty hunter in a late twentieth century-style sci-fi world, and it seems to be like an thrilling, bold flip for the studio behind video games like “The Final Of Us,” “Uncharted,” “Jak and Daxter,” and “Crash Bandicoot.” To all of us at Jalopnik, the most effective a part of the trailer is the reveal of the hero’s Porsche spaceship.
The trailer doesn’t present any gameplay, nevertheless it does set up the story and its characters, seemingly via the sport’s opening cinematic. All of it opens with a shot of the protagonist’s spaceship, which seems to be actually sick and extra distinctive than most generic sci-fi ships. Notably, the ship is branded as a Porsche in a method that’s inconceivable to overlook, and its purple and white livery is harking back to basic Porsche race automobiles. Whereas not talked about within the sport’s official description or web site, one other shot within the trailer reveals the ship is known as the Porsche 984 Tempest NDX, and its steering wheel (or yoke, I assume?) has the Porsche crest in its heart.
This isn’t Porsche’s first foray into designing a spaceship, imagine it or not. Again in 2019 Porsche collaborated with Lucasfilm on a “Star Wars” spaceship that was constructed at a scale mannequin and proven on the “Rise of Skywalker” premiere, nevertheless it was by no means truly utilized in a film or online game. Earlier this yr, Porsche launched skins for D.Va’s mech in Overwatch 2 impressed by the brand new Macan EV.
We additionally get to see a number of the ship’s cockpit when predominant character Jordan A. Mun will get able to land on a harmful planet. The 984 Tempest has tons of unimaginable buttons, keyboards, switches, levers and lights like all of our favourite ’80s sci-fi classics from “Blade Runner” to “Star Wars,” however with some enjoyable barely newer tech thrown in, like a TV taking part in anime via a DVD participant and a cool built-in Sony CD participant within the ship that she performs Pet Store Boys on. It looks as if the ship may function Mun’s house base, a minimum of within the intro of the story.
Right here’s what Naughty Canine’s head Neil Druckmann has to say about Intergalactic:
You’ve gotten been dying to know what’s subsequent for us, and I’m thrilled to lastly have the ability to reply: Naughty Canine’s subsequent sport is Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, presently in growth for the PlayStation 5 console. We’ve been engaged on this brand-new journey since 2020! This sport is shaping as much as be our wildest, most inventive story but.
Intergalactic stars our latest protagonist, Jordan A. Mun, a harmful bounty hunter who finally ends up stranded on Sempiria – a distant planet whose communication with the surface universe went darkish a whole bunch of years in the past. In actual fact, anybody who’s flown to it hoping to unravel its mysterious previous was by no means heard from once more. Jordan must use all her abilities and wits if she hopes to be the primary particular person in over 600 years to go away its orbit.
Past that, we’re preserving all the things concerning the story underneath wraps – a minimum of for now. What we will inform you is that this sport lives as much as the Naughty Canine custom of making an emotional, character-driven epic journey. Our narrative objectives are rivaled solely by our gameplay ambitions. This would be the deepest gameplay in Naughty Canine’s historical past, taking our learnings from our earlier franchises and pushing them past something we’ve ever carried out earlier than.
Jordan is performed by the gifted Tati Gabrielle, who leads a stellar forged (pun meant!). Eagle-eyed gamers may spot among the different forged members within the trailer. We’ll reveal extra of our ensemble down the road.
Our unimaginable voyage into the cosmos additionally wants an equally unimaginable soundtrack. As great followers of their work, I’m excited to announce our collaboration with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross who’ll be scoring Intergalactic! The blokes are cooking, and the trailer is only a small tease of their work for the sport.
We all know you’re longing for extra – and belief us, we’re very desperate to share extra with you. For now, although, it’s time to place our heads again down and preserve cranking away on Jordan’s journey.
A soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross? How can I not be excited for this? Sadly, Naughty Canine hasn’t mentioned something about how far alongside in growth Intergalactic is. On condition that it’s been within the works for half a decade now, hopefully we received’t have to attend for that for much longer.
