Replace: As Eurogamer level out, it seems Off The Grid options NFTs, with tradeable in-game objects dealt with by a blockchain market. A special sort of future tech dystopia than the one depicted within the trailer…
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Off The Grid was introduced earlier this yr, the primary product of District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s partnership with Gunzilla Video games. A brand new video launched tonight provides an extended take a look at its setting, within the type of a Blomkamp directed in-engine cinematic, whereas additionally giving a way of how the cyberpunk battle royale may really feel to play. Watch it beneath.
The above video is the primary a part of an eight-part collection that Gunzilla Video games are calling Off The Grid Cinema. Every half will likely be directed by Blomkamp and can proceed the story of the characters launched within the video above, though that narrative is not what you will be enjoying within the eventual sport. As a substitute it is designed as a bit of worldbuilding, which introduces the cyberpunk setting and the robotics and weaponry you’ll be able to look forward to finding inside.
Off The Grid is a set on an island referred to as Teardrop, someplace within the Pacific ocean, the place an area elevator has been constructed which supplies humanity entry to sources with which we have created superior AI and robotic implants. Blomkamp is not the one recognisable title connected; author Richard Ok. Morgan, creator of Altered Carbon and Crysis, can also be concerned. A Pacific island with cybernetic implants does sound a bit Crysis-y.
The sport, when it arrives, can have each singleplayer and multiplayer modes, with each going down on the identical map. The multiplayer is, as famous, a battle royale mode, with as much as 150 gamers combating collectively. Gunzilla say the sport will launch in 2023, alongside a couple of different particulars on its official website.
Whereas that is essentially the most direct involvement Blomkamp has had with a sport – he is “Chief Visionary Officer” at Gunzilla – it is not the primary game-thing he is executed. He was way back connected to direct a Halo film, for instance, and he is directed trailers for video games like Anthem.
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