It’s been some time since we’ve seen a lot from Wizards of the Coast and Archetype Leisure’s Exodus, the upcoming sci-fi role-playing recreation from former BioWare builders. Certain, the studio has been dropping lore and idea artwork since revealing Exodus eventually 12 months’s The Sport Awards, however a brand new trailer for the sport launched Wednesday provides a much-needed reminder of Archetype’s upcoming challenge.
Archetype’s newest reveal for Exodus is timed to Spooky Season — and is thus appropriately terrifying. The sport’s new cinematic trailer introduces the Mara-Yama, an alien risk that travels in fleshy ships and relentlessly pursues and overwhelms its victims. Assume Star Trek’s the Borg, however as an alternative of voyaging by means of area in black cubes, Exodus’ unrelenting predator species will get round in ships that use grotesque extremities like a bodily tractor beam.
Based on some moody narration, courtesy of actor Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar), the Mara-Yama “feed on worry, enjoyment of cruelty, and revel within the agony of their prey. They aren’t simply hunters — they’re sadistic predators who savor each second of psychological torment they inflict.” The identify Mara-Yama is a reference to the deities Mara and Yama, representations of demise and the underworld in Dharmic religions.
Whereas these cosmic horrors might not be interesting, essentially, they’ve stoked my inquisitive about Exodus. I’m digging the coldness-and-cruelty-of-space-demons factor that McConaughey’s vibing about right here.
Apparently, we’re going to be listening to much more from McConaughey; he’s portraying a personality named C.C. Orlev for Exodus. The developer describes him as a “self-proclaimed spokesman” for Exodus, and an notorious character within the recreation’s fiction.
Exodus doesn’t have a launch date. It’s at the moment in improvement for PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X, and, based on govt artistic director James Ohlen, is simply the beginning of a brand new universe.
Archetype’s debut title is a part of a billion-dollar guess on inner recreation improvement at father or mother firm Hasbro. Along with Archetype Leisure, Hasbro has Atomic Arcade, which is engaged on a G.I. Joe recreation starring Snake Eyes; Invoke Studios, which is creating a Dungeons & Dragons recreation; and Skeleton Key, which is engaged on “one thing spooky.”
