At the 2024 Xbox Games Showcase, Obsidian Entertainment launched a brand new trailer for Avowed, and the developer confirmed that it’ll nonetheless be launched someday this yr
The newest trailer is extra cinematic than what we beforehand noticed for the sport, diving extra into the story of Avowed and what gamers shall be tasked with. “Explore the Living Lands, a mysterious island stuffed with journey and hazard,” Avowed’s story trailer YouTube description reads. “As an envoy of Aedyr, you might be despatched to research rumors of a spreading plague with a secret that threatens to destroy every little thing. Can you save the island and your soul from the forces threatening to tear them aside?”
In addition to extra perception into Avowed’s story, a brand new companion named Giatta debuted within the newest trailer. According to the Xbox Wire blog post, Giatta is a “good and outspoken anticancer” who’s a scholar on soul power and is on a mission to unravel the answer to Dreamscourge.
Obsidian confirmed an in-depth take a look at Avowed’s gameplay through the Xbox Developer Direct occasion this previous January. Additional particulars that surfaced following the gameplay deep dive embrace affirmation that Avowed will keep true to prior Obsidian initiatives and embrace a number of endings, encouraging replayability, along with affirmation that it’ll not assist you to romance your companions.
Avowed is a first-person role-playing recreation by Outer Worlds and Fallout New Vegas makers, and Obsidian proprietor Microsoft revealed it. It takes place in the identical universe as one among Obsidian’s different video games, Pillars of Eternity, and as an Xbox Games Studio title, launches day-one on the subscription service Game Pass.
Despite no agency launch date popping out of as we speak’s showcase, there are rumors that Avowed might goal a November 2024 launch date. Early final month, The Verge’s Tom Warren reported that Obsidian’s subsequent undertaking could also be launched someday in November of this yr. This strains up with the Fall 2024 launch window that Obsidian supplied earlier this yr.
For extra, try every little thing introduced on the Xbox Games Showcase 2024.
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