Weird West is an upcoming immersive sim from Raphael Colantonio, co-creator of Dishonored and Prey. It's launching on January 11 for Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, although lists it as coming on the 12th.
If you don't know Colantonio, he's the founder of Arkane (the company that just launched 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Deathloop) and WolfEye Studios. The latter is where he is now. He's the creative director and president, working alongside executive producer Julien Roby and chief operating officer Binu Philip. The trio along with a team stretched across the world are bringing Weird West to life, an ambitious top-down immersive sim RPG.
It's a dark fantasy spin on the typical wild west setting, bringing mythological beings into the world to fight cowboys. Given that it's an immersive sim, the emphasis is on player choice and carving out your own journey. You can watch the first 'Road to' video below.
It's dubbed "Episode 1" indicating that more are inbound. In it, Colantonio narrates, opening by calling it a mix of "action, RPG, and immersive sim." We see a storefront selling guns, a cowboy putting out fires, a woman burying a body, the player turning into a wolf, and more. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:It's certainly weird.
The game puts you into the shoes of a bounty hunter who's son was killed and wife was kidnapped. Naturally you want to get to the bottom of it, so you set out to find your loved one and get some good old fashioned revenge.
"One of the goals for Weird West is for everything that seems interactive to actually be interactive," Colantonio adds. "We can move things, search anything, take items from inventories, or place items, carry bodies, bury bodies, kick things, set things on fir༺e, and more. If you see something that seems possible, chances are it is. It feeds into the simulation to create gameplay opportunities."