As the video games maker continues to get flooded with huge AAA experiences that demand dozens upon dozens of hours of your time, it’s all the time refreshing to cross paths with a linear, centered, story-driven AA experience- and that’s precisely what Bandai Namco and developer Reflector Leisure’s upcoming Unknown 9: Awakening is promising. Introduced fairly some time again, the action-adventure title is lastly approaching its launch, forward of which, right here, we’ll be going over some key particulars it’s best to know to organize you for what the sport can have in retailer.
UNKNOWN 9 UNIVERSE
Unknown 9: Awakening is technically a brand new IP, in fact, however as Bandai Namco and Reflector Leisure have burdened on quite a few events, it’s additionally half of a bigger multimedia franchise, spanning books, comics, and extra. The sport itself is, nevertheless, going to inform a standalone story, specializing in protagonist Haroona, performed by Anya Chalotra of The Witcher fame. Haroona possesses distinctive supernatural skills that permit her to faucet and enterprise into the Fold, a mysterious dimension that overlaps the true world. That units her on a path to uncover hidden, lengthy misplaced information, although not, because it seems, with out penalties.
STORY DETAILS
In Unknown 9: Awakening, Haroona goes to should deal with a villainous group referred to as the Ascendants, a splinter faction of the Leap 12 months Society, which itself is a gaggle that goals to uncover forbidden information to assist hasten human development and progress. The Ascendants, nevertheless, have nefarious objectives of their very own, with plans of utilizing information taken from the Fold for the needs of altering human historical past, and in doing so, messing with powers that they don’t perceive. Haroona, who has the flexibility to faucet into the Fold, catches the Ascendants’ consideration, kicking issues into movement, whereas she and her companions additionally know that they’re the one ones who can cease the Ascendants.
COMBAT DETAILS
Fight will take a few totally different types in Unknown 9: Awakening, with gamers being given a couple of totally different choices in methods to method conditions. Your most simple, easy method can be to have interaction in melee fight, utilizing your fists to chip away at enemies’ well being bars. Alternatively, it’s also possible to use skills referred to as Umbric skills to replenish an enemy’s gauge, which, as soon as stuffed, will go away them quickly weak and weak, following which you’ll unleash extra highly effective melee strikes to deal greater injury, and even end them off. As for whenever you need to take a quieter method…
STEALTH DETAILS
Unknown 9: Awakening give gamers quite a few attention-grabbing choices for whenever you need to take care of enemies quietly. Utilizing her Fold skills, Haroona can spot enemies in her neighborhood even by partitions, can lure them to particular spots to isolate them from their companions, and may assault them from distances- whereas the nice quaint technique of strolling up behind somebody and silently taking them out your self will, in fact, additionally all the time be an choice. In the meantime, Haroona all the time has entry to a capability known as Shroud, which lets her quickly flip invisible, and may even be triggered in the course of fight. As you may think, that’ll in all probability are available in fairly helpful when stealthing round.
Oh, and talking of Haroona’s skills…
STEPPING
Stepping might be certainly one of Haroona’s extra high-flying and helpful skills (or seemingly helpful, on the very least). Stepping permits you to step into the Fold, following which you’ll possess quite a few enemies in flip, utilizing them over quick home windows to arrange all method of explosive chain reactions. How far you’ll be able to take issues with Stepping will rely upon what number of Stepping tokens you might have, which you achieve by defeating enemies and performing profitable takedowns. The extra tokens you might have, the extra steps you’ll be able to take whereas Stepping, letting you unleash extra highly effective assaults.
MORE ABILITIES
Stepping and Shroud aren’t the one skills that Haroona has at her disposal. For example, she will be able to use Umbric skills referred to as Push and Pull, which do precisely what the title implies, permitting you to telekinetically push or pull enemies in the direction of or away from you. You may as well use these skills on objects within the setting to your benefit in quite a few methods, like Pushing an enemy off a ledge, or Pulling an explosive barrel into an enemy’s again. On the stealth facet of issues, there’s the Ripple capability, which attracts the eye of close by foes, drawing them to a particular level. So you’ll be able to, for example, use Ripple to drawn a number of enemies to an explosive, after which set off that explosive whilst you’re a secure distance away your self.
ENEMY TYPES
Unknown 9: Awakening will throw quite a few totally different enemies at you as you make your means by its story, and every will current distinctive challenges in fight, from muscular brutes who dole out hard-hitting knuckle-breakers to those who prefer to hold their distance and assault you with ranged weapons, to those who come outfitted with a wide range of totally different melee weapons, and extra. As you may think, not solely will that be one thing that you need to deal with throughout fight and stealth sections, however on the flipside, whereas utilizing your Stepping capability, you’ll additionally have the ability to use these totally different enemy varieties’ distinctive skills to lethal impact your self as properly.
PROGRESSION
By its very nature, Unknown 9: Awakening is clearly not going to be this large, sprawling RPG, however the sport will make use of its personal set of centered development mechanics to permit Utilizing rifts referred to as anomalies – which may be discovered scattered all through the sport – to put money into ability bushes that mean you can each energy up Haroona’s skills, and likewise customise them in distinctive methods, letting you alter them (at the very least to some extent) to suit the best way you need to play.
LOCATIONS
Unknown 9: Awakening is, as we’ve talked about, going to be a linear expertise, although there’s nonetheless going to be a good bit of selection within the environments that you simply’ll traverse and discover. Over the course of Haroona’s journey, gamers will discover themselves in all method of areas, from nineteenth century Portugal and dense and overgrown jungles in India to attractive, sandy locales in Mauritania and extra.
PC REQUIREMENTS
For many who’re trying to play Unknown 9: Awakening on PC, the sport’s system necessities fortunately aren’t terribly demanding (which isn’t stunning, provided that that is very a lot being billed as a smaller, AA expertise). On minimal settings, the sport would require any processor with both 4 or 6 cores and eight threads at a base 3.6 Ghz, together with an 8 GB VRAM GPU, and 12 GB of RAM. On advisable settings, in the meantime, you’ll want a processor with 6 cores and 12 threads at a base 3.4 Ghz, together with 16 GB of RAM, although your GPU necessities stay the identical. On both setting, you’ll additionally want an SSD and 55 GB of free cupboard space.
