With the look forward to The Witcher 4 set to move into 2027, it’s the same story for Naughty Dog’s just lately introduced Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier took to ResetEra to say neither The Witcher 4 nor Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet might be out subsequent 12 months.
That means like The Witcher 4, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet might be launched in 2027 on the earliest. And, like The Witcher 4, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will face questions round whether or not or not it’s focusing on the PlayStation 5 or the inevitable PlayStation 6, or, maybe most certainly, is a cross-gen recreation.
If Intergalactic heads straight to PS6, Naughty Dog faces the prospect of getting skipped the PS5 technology by way of model new video games. So far, the studio has launched ports, remasters, and remakes on Sony’s current-gen console, together with The Last of Us Part II, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, The Last of Us Part I, and The Last of Us Part II Remastered.
Naughty Dog revealed Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet at The Game Awards 2024. It includes a star-studded forged that features Tati Gabrielle from the Uncharted film as protagonist Jordan A. Mun, and Kumail Nanjiani of Marvel’s Eternals as a person known as Colin Graves.
But followers have analysed the trailer, under, to piece collectively the remainder of the forged, and although it focuses on simply a few characters, a photograph of what seems to be a crew revealed much more.
Earlier this month, The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann shared extra particulars about Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.
In an interview with Alex Garland, the author of zombie film 28 Days Later, Druckmann talked candidly concerning the growth course of, confirming Intergalactic had been within the works for 4 years already.
“I joke about this with the group. We made a recreation, The Last of Us 2, we made sure artistic selections that bought us loads of hate. Lots of people adore it, however lots of people hate that recreation,” Druckmann stated, to which Garland joked: “Who provides a shit?”
“Exactly,” Druckmann added. “But the joke is like, you realize what, let’s do one thing that individuals will not care as a lot about — let’s make a recreation about religion and faith.”
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet takes place in an alternate historic timeline and includes a “fairly distinguished faith,” too, which has “modified and bastardized and advanced” over time.
“This complete faith takes place on this one planet, after which at one level, all communication stops,” Druckmann teased. “And you are taking part in a bounty hunter that is chasing her bounty, and she or he crash lands on this planet.
“So most of the earlier video games we have achieved, there’s all the time, like, an ally with you,” he stated. “I actually need you to be misplaced in a spot that you just’re actually confused about what occurred right here, who’re the folks right here, what was their historical past. And in an effort to get off this planet — once more, nobody has been heard from this planet for 600 years or so — in the event you ever have hoped to have an opportunity to get off, you must determine what occurred right here.”
Assuming Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet releases in 2027, and bearing in mind Druckmann’s remark about it being in growth for 4 years to date, by the point the sport comes out it should have been within the works for six years.
It’s a fairly lengthy wait, however talking to IGN on the crimson carpet forward of The Last of Us Season 2 premiere, Druckmann stated that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is just not solely playable proper now, however “actually good.”
“I’ll say we’re taking part in it on the workplace and it is unbelievable,” Druckmann teased. “It’s actually good. I’m so excited to lastly put gameplay out into the world and present folks about it, as a result of we simply confirmed you the very, very, very tip on the iceberg. The recreation goes fairly deep past that.”
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
