The funniest trailer of The Game Awards 2024 was for The Outer Worlds 2, which may also launch on PlayStation 5 subsequent 12 months.
While not in the identical league as role-playing style hallmarks like The Witcher 3 or Fallout, The Outer Worlds was an amazing recreation in determined want of an expanded sequel.
Judging by a brand new trailer at The Game Awards, that’s precisely what we’re getting – with a dramatic narrator promising it’ll ‘definitely be two instances larger’ although it took ‘3 times longer to make’.
The trailer takes different amusing punches at online game sequels, describing The Outer Worlds 2 as having ‘all the things that ought to have been within the first recreation’ with ‘extra motion, extra weapons, and extra… graphics?’
Developer Obsidian Entertainment additionally mocks its personal historical past with sequels within the clip, describing themselves because the studio behind Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, and ‘Fallout 3 half 2’, aka Fallout: New Vegas.
While it definitely appears to be like extra spectacular visually, the most important announcement is that it’s coming to PlayStation 5 alongside Xbox Series X/S and PC. The authentic Outer Worlds was launched on all platforms, however that recreation had been within the works previous to Microsoft’s acquisition of developer Obsidian in 2018.
The sequel being on PlayStation 5 is one other instance of Microsoft’s multiplatform push lately, with former Xbox exclusives Hi-Fi Rush, Grounded, and Sea Of Thieves all coming to different consoles lately. Indiana Jones And The Great Circle, which simply launched on Xbox, can also be set to return to PlayStation 5 subsequent 12 months.
The authentic Outer Worlds additionally arrived on Nintendo Switch, so it’s doable this sequel is deliberate for Nintendo’s subsequent console too.
While Microsoft normally has a giant presence at The Game Awards, having revealed the Xbox Series X console there in years prior, this was the one main Xbox announcement on the 2024 ceremony.
As such, it’s doable the corporate is holding again bulletins for an additional Xbox Developer Direct, which has taken place in January over the previous two years.
When will The Outer Worlds 2 be launched?
The Outer Worlds 2 is about to be launched in 2025 on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC. It may also be out there on day one for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers.
Alongside The Outer Worlds 2, Obsidian can also be set to launch motion role-playing recreation Avowed subsequent 12 months, which can launch on Xbox Series X/S and PC – however not PlayStation 5 – on February 18, 2025.
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