Top-of-the-line surprises from Sony’s State of Play presentation right now was the announcement of a brand new Astro Bot recreation. Astro’s Playroom, the pack-in recreation put in on PlayStation 5s in 2020, was a pleasant platformer that paid tribute to PlayStation’s historical past, confirmed off the tech of the DualSense controller, and was a blast to play. Now, we’re getting one other one from Crew Asobi titled, merely, Astro Bot.
The sport leaked earlier this month, and lots of the particulars from the leak turned out to be true. Astro Bot includes a fennec fox robotic character that accompanies Astro on his journey by quite a lot of environments. Astro additionally flies round on a DualSense controller at one level, so I anticipate that can most likely be steered by movement controls. Oh, there’s additionally a PlayStation 5 house ship. Wait, Kratos simply gave Astro his axe? Oh, it seems to be like he’s teaming up with a bunch of various PlayStation characters. This shit guidelines. Sport of the Yr contender, you heard it right here first. In contrast to Astro’s Playroom, it seems to be like Astro Bot can be a boxed online game you will discover on retailer cabinets on September 6.
Try the trailer beneath:
Astro originates from The Playroom, which was one other tech-demo-style expertise on the PlayStation 4 that launched alongside the system in 2013. This was adopted up with Playroom VR, which held the identical function however for the PlayStation VR headset in 2016. The character lastly acquired a self-titled recreation with the wonderful Astro Bot Rescue Mission in 2018, a PlayStation VR unique. Astro’s Playroom was the primary full-fledged recreation starring Astro that didn’t require a peripheral, and it was a success, so it’s good to see the little man get a brand new recreation.
