Hey PlayStation nation! My identify’s James Hunt and I’m the Sport Director for Quick Journey Video games’ new PS VR2 title, Model, coming in 2024. Chances are you’ll know the Quick Journey staff from our lengthy historical past of single-player VR experiences like Cities: VR and the upcoming Vampire: The Masquerade – Justice, however Model will likely be our first ever in-house multiplayer title, permitting as much as 5 gamers to take pleasure in suspense, social deduction and quick, sudden motion.
Let me inform you all about it.
Frozen in time
In Model, our first authentic IP since 2019’s The Curious Story of the Stolen Pets, the world is reeling from the looks of an extraterrestrial presence. Websites throughout the globe have began mysteriously freezing in time, and first responders known as to those areas have turn out to be immobile, helpless statues.
Not solely that, however a race of alien beings has been found at these areas, identified to you and I as Mannequins. They boast probably life-threatening skills, and it’s as much as a staff of particular Brokers to seek out these supernatural new threats earlier than they themselves fall sufferer to the Model’s powers.
What follows is a tense sport of cat and mouse.
Struggle to a stand nonetheless
In a typical match of Model, three gamers work collectively because the titular aliens, going through off towards a staff of two Brokers. As Mannequins, you’ll have the power to imagine a pose after which freeze your self, turning right into a statue with the looks of one of many trapped first responders. You should use this energy to arrange the proper ambush, mendacity in look forward to Brokers to look after which dashing ahead freezing them in-place with a contact of the hand.
However Brokers are removed from defenseless. Armed with state-of-the-art expertise, they’ll scan ranges for a Model’s tough location. Catch the enemy within the act or suss out which statue is an enemy in disguise and also you’ll have to blast them together with your laser pistol. The primary staff to wipe out the opposite wins, however there’s just a few extra twists that make Model a sport of intense technique and shifting favor.
The race is on
Every of the sport’s ranges options Energy Stations that Mannequins can steadily drain. Draining two Energy Stations will grant the staff enhanced powers, together with the power to see precisely the place your enemy is. This may shortly flip the tide of a match, however Energy Stations make for top threat areas that Brokers are prone to preserve beneath shut watch. Ensure you’re not stumbling right into a entice.
Brokers even have one more reason to defend these Energy Stations. If Mannequins haven’t claimed them inside three minutes of the beginning of a match, the human staff will get the upgrades as a substitute. Either side may also revive any downed allies, however this too creates the proper alternative for a lethal ambush.
This makes every sport of Model a pointy, tight and tense train in disguise and search. Can the Mannequins idiot the Brokers into considering they’re pleasant, then strike on the proper second? Or will an Agent’s crafty and use of devices assist them come out on prime?
Become involved
Right here at Quick Journey, we all know that making the most effective multiplayer video games can’t occur with out the assist of our incredible group. We wish to know what you consider at this time’s reveal and what you wish to see within the full sport when it launches in 2024. We can have extra to share, together with the primary gameplay footage, quickly.
We actually consider that Model goes to be a flagship multiplayer sport for PS VR2, however that may solely occur together with your assist. Till subsequent time, ask your self – who are you able to belief?