Whereas indie developer Movement Blur has been comparatively quiet about its upcoming title, Black Slate, because the sport’s announcement again in July 2024, the studio has been showcasing the title at CES 2025, and you’ll take a look at beneath round 3 and a half minutes of gameplay footage.
Going by the video, a few of the influences of seminal video games like Steel Gear Strong are evident, with fairly a couple of of the title’s designs seemingly coming proper out of the pages of Yoji Shinkawa’s artwork e book. The video additionally signifies that the sport’s visible constancy undoubtedly a excessive precedence oft he studio. There are lavishly-designed rooms with unimaginable ranges of reflections all over.
The video additionally offers us a quick take a look at what we are able to count on from Black Slate in terms of gameplay. The sport shall be a third-person shooter the place the participant will make use of canopy to take down enemies that vary from common troopers to all-out demons with telekinetic powers.
Quite a lot of weapons are additionally proven off, from the common-or-garden assault rifle, to a wierd gun that appears to shoot electrical energy.
Black Slate could have gamers taking up the position of a army “legend”, in response to the sport’s unique announcement, and can set out on a mission to uncover the reality a couple of cataclysmic occasion, and whereas they’re at it, additionally rescue a scientist that is likely to be one way or the other linked to those occasions.
Alongside Steel Gear Strong, the studio has beforehand additionally cited different video games as inspiration, together with The Final of Us and Uncharted, in terms of how the video games had been developed, and the way they influenced gameplay mechanics going ahead.
Black Slate is at the moment in improvement on PC, and doesn’t but have a launch date. The sport is being developed by making use of Unreal Engine 5.
