A trailer for a game called Neo Berlin 2087 appeared on PlayStation’s official YouTube channel earlier today, and it has fans bemused. As one commenter put it so succinctly: “I've never seen a game this graphically impressive look like it was made on a budget of 20 bucks.” It’s a surprisingly accurate statement: the trailer both looks beautiful and bargain bin all at the same – impressive!
To be fair, this is clearly still early in development, and Unreal Engine 5 is probably doing a lot of the heavy lifting. On German developer Elysium Game Studio’s website, it describes the title as a “third- and first-person narrative driven detective thriller set in a cyberpunk world inspired by classics such as Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell”. Cool!
The blurb continues: “The game is set in Berlin, in the year 2087. Technological advancements and cyberization have divided society into a two class system, where the rich are ruling over the city while the poor are fighting for survival inside the slums and in the deadly wasteland outside the city walls. In a story about justice, friendship, love, guilt, and betrayal, we combine the best elements of science fiction in a way that has never been experienced before.”
Clearly the developer has big ambitions for this, and it’s perhaps unsurprising there’s no target release date announced right now. The game’s being part funded by the German government, presumably in an effort to strengthen the country’s artistic output, and we quite enjoyed seeing some of the distinctive Berlin architecture in the trailer. But yeah, don’t expect to be playing this one for a while.
[source youtube.com]
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Possible sleeper hit or a game that's so bad it's good and gains cult status, or 500,000 Scovilles bomb?
they need an editor.
Yeah, this is never coming out.
So... Minority Report meets Max Payne with some Cyberpunk tossed in for good measure. Interesting mesh up.
Definitely needs more time though.
Ah yes give me more of that Euro-jank. Inject it into my veins
This ain't even a fetus yet. This baby's still a zygote.
I think this is a testament to what UE5 means to game development in the near future - allowing even small teams with limited resources to achieve that kind of fidelity.
Shiny Eurojank. Genuinely my kind of game.
It looks really cool even with some of the undeniable jank. I'm rooting for this one!
What was so impressive about this 😹
Looks like a very tailored and deceptive trailer Ala cyberpunk... But in the flavor of bright memory infinite.
“The game is set in Berlin, in the year 2087. Technological advancements and cyberization have divided society into a two class system, where the rich are ruling over the city while the poor are fighting for survival".
They could have easily named this Neo Berlin 2023! 🙃
Reminds me of a first-person Vanquish but also Crysis and Max Payne.
“Vanpaysis.”
“Vansismax”
“Vanquyne”
I’m still workshopping the names but you can see what’s going on here.
@BeerIsAwesome same for me. Just hope it's not a walking simulator point and click. The small bit of gameplay says it's not but we will see. I got a very Killzone vibe from parts of it
I got first person Binary Domain vibes
Getting Vanquish, Crysis vibes looks amazing!!
Garbage. The only reason there are articles about this is the UE5. Frame rate drops in the trailer are just ridiculous.
Abandoned 2 inbound!
Wow, and I thought my aim and hold was below par.
Combat also looked decidedly mid.
@BeerIsAwesome I guess I’m old, too, because I feel the same way!
So, basically another, "we bought some stock assets, here you go" game. Glad to see those still exist.
It looks pretty, but it also looks like a fifteen-year-old PS3 shooter.
Too many developers appear to be investing time, effort and money into making a game look good, perhaps even play well, forgetting that other factors play into good design, including well-written stories and characters, ones that are unique and are not copy and paste jobs of the same familiar tropes.
I want to see experiences that look to be showing, and hopefully doing, something different. We can’t shoot the same enemy forever.
Let’s hope this isn’t another Abandoned. There is a whole thesis to be written on that saga, which thankfully for Sony has been a minor forgotten blip of an embarrassment.
@KundaliniRising333 I ala immediately thought Bright Memory Infinite, which I bought on sale for 12 bucks and immensely enjoyed in multiple playthroughs over 5 hours 😂
Offence meant, it looks like any other trailer, all rendered and pretty then the game releases and looks like something you'd play ona PC from 2013.
This was announced a couple years ago. I'm sure it's Shadow of Conspiracy sector 2
@ChromaticDracula does it have to start with Van? How about Maxquishsis?
@Uncharted2007 i thought Minority Report too, it be a slow walking detective game. Then boom a first person shooter, wasnt even sure it their the same game. Lol
Still unsure
@MasterChiefWiggum TPB's Bubbles as the Mona Lisa!? Hill-air-ee-us!
@PSXDave Thanks!
Hear me out… could this be a trailer entirely written and generated by AI to test the water?
I dont get the massive hate it looks quite cool to me.
"2087 Wishlist it now" made me chuckle a bit; for a moment it felt like it's due in 2087. Talk about announcing a game too soon.
It's future of game development. Now developers can buy assets but now it's more open to public.
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