Former GTA producer’s GTA-like shooter will come out earlier than GTA 6

Leslie Benzies, former GTA producer and Rockstar North president, and founding father of developer Construct A Rocket Boy, unveiled the primary gameplay trailer for his upcoming recreation, MindsEye, coming this summer season. The third-person motion recreation is about in a futuristic world “the place AI and human greed collide to deliver earth to the precipice of collapse,” which positive is a far-fetched sci-fi idea, proper? Proper? You’ll be able to take a look at the trailer, revealed as we speak at PlayStation State of Play, above.

Perhaps I am studying an excessive amount of into it, however is Benzies figuring out just a few issues along with his new recreation? Did his years of engaged on Grand Theft Auto video games make him hate vehicles? He positive blows up a whole lot of them within the gameplay trailer, too many to be a coincidence. Shoot one million bullets at a bunch of automobiles and a few of ’em are gonna blow up, positive, and a few of ’em do, after which extra of ’em do, and at one level I swear the principle character just about stops what he is doing simply to particularly blow up one automobile particularly.

I am going to say this: the car-blowing-up results are the perfect a part of the trailer. The remainder appears to be like like “We have got GTA at dwelling” blended with “We have got Cyberpunk at dwelling” and “We have got Watch_Dogs at dwelling.” Not that it would not look enjoyable. Automobiles, weapons, drones, third-person capturing and canopy, extra drones, extra automobiles, and a determined man with a cyber implant in his head. His identify is not V, although. It is Jacob.

“MindsEye follows Jacob Diaz, geared up with a mysterious neural implant, the MindsEye, that has left him with disjointed flashbacks of his time within the service,” says a press launch despatched to PC Gamer. “As Jacob fights to uncover the reality, he’s drawn right into a world the place AI, high-tech experimentation, and unchecked navy energy affect each step of his journey.”

That journey apparently consists of placing car insurance coverage corporations out of enterprise by exploding all the things on 4 wheels.

Not proven within the trailer or talked about by Benzies himself throughout State of Play is In every single place, which in 2022 was described as a “multi-world recreation expertise that blurs the road between actuality and the digital world.” We have been advised MindsEye would happen inside In every single place, and for context, this was again when everybody was making guarantees in regards to the “metaverse,” that subsequent large factor everybody rapidly stopped speaking about as a result of it was nonsense (now they only discuss AI, the subsequent subsequent large factor, which is able to proceed till the subsequent subsequent subsequent large factor).

Within the press launch despatched to PC Gamer, it solely says “MindsEye® is an EVERYWHERE® world,” however that is it. Does that imply In every single place, no matter it’s (possibly one thing extra like Roblox for adults), will not be prepared when Mindseye launches in summer season 2025? I’ll ask Construct a Rocket Boy for clarification about In every single place and replace this story if I be taught extra.