After 7 long years since the release of the unique action adventure Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, we will finally see a sequel, which was already presented at TGA 2019 on the occasion of the announcement of the Xbox Series X. Meanwhile, the British studio Ninja Theory was bought by Microsoft, and thanks to a higher budget and New technologies will make the game even more ambitious. This was confirmed by the first foreign previews released this morning, and they are very positive.
Once again we can look forward to a strong story highlighting the psychological problems of the main character. Either way, the combat system should be improved, and we can expect significantly more enemy variety. The fights themselves should be much more impressive, which is helped not only by the ambitious visual component, but also, for example, by the fact that all combat movements were captured using motion capture, and filming took more than 70 hours in total. . The game itself is similar in duration to the first part.
However, thanks to subsequent conversations with the developers, we learned additional information, including quite fundamental ones. The game will only run at 30fps on Xbox Series X and Series S consoles with an unspecified dynamic resolution. “There are no graphic modes, the frame rate can only be increased on a PC,” says visual effects director Mark Slater-Tunsil for German magazine GamePro.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen lower framerate targets for current-gen games, and it’s a nod to the high visual ambitions that the developers were able to significantly improve upon compared to the first title, thanks in large part to the Unreal Engine. 5, reports IGN magazine. The developers highly appreciate the current engine from Epic; the game offers realistically rendered locations, advanced lighting, detailed models, as well as elaborate cut scenes inspired by the film work of director Robert Eggers.
Seanua’s Saga: Hellblade II will release on May 21 on PC and Xbox Series X|S.
Source : Zing
