Hello everybody! It’s a pleasure to be again right here to make one other Astro Bot-related reveal.
If in case you have been following Astro information as of late, then you recognize Staff Asobi have been exhausting at work on a brand-new recreation popping out on September 6. The sport options over 50 planets, new powerups, plenty of enemies, secrets and techniques and PlayStation-infused characters to gather. And it additionally encompasses a DualSense wi-fi controller become a dwelling character and serving to Astro on his mission.
Immediately, it’s an immense pleasure to announce that it is possible for you to to cost into Astro’s new supersized journey together with the cool new DualSense wi-fi controller – Astro Bot Limited Edition.
We all know a lot of you have been hoping for this after seeing the sport trailer. So, we shortly requested our beautiful bots to engineer this magnificence and tada! No, no, I’m simply kidding; it had been within the making for a while, rigorously crafted by the superb groups at SIE. And what splendid work they did.
The controller’s design options Astro’s signature blue accents on the handles and buttons, carved-in, sci-fi strains in addition to the trademark playful pair of eyes on the contact pad. It’s a true murals, and we couldn’t be happier with the end-result at Staff Asobi.
With this dynamic addition to your set-up, a supersized area journey awaits…
The DualSense wi-fi controller – Astro Bot Limited Edition shall be accessible in restricted amount in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam for SGD 114 / MYR 399 / IDR 1,449,000 / THB 2,690 / PHP 4,590 / VND 2,299,000 and can launch on September 6, day-in-date with the launch of Astro Bot
Pre-orders shall be accessible by local retailers ranging from Friday, August 9, 2024.
I’ll take this opportunity to summarize among the cool issues this new Astro Bot recreation does with the DualSense wi-fi controller
First, as a lot of you count on from an Astro recreation, you possibly can really feel the surfaces that Astro runs and slides on, from grass, sand, steel to extra squishy textures or water. That was already the case with Astro’s Playroom, however we have now elevated the variety of textures you possibly can really feel by the controller.
Subsequent, we doubled down on the adaptive triggers mixed with haptic suggestions, by tying them tightly to Astro’s new powers. For instance, when utilizing Barkster, the bulldog Jetpack, you possibly can really feel the thruster ratting towards your finger in synch with the animation, giving a really dynamic and immersive feeling. Each new energy up has been given that very same particular therapy so it is possible for you to to expertise varied expressions by your fingers.
Lastly, given the variety of enemies and boss battles we added to this new journey, it was essential to work on battle and impacts by combining the entire above. Whether or not it’s stretching, pounding or pummeling exhausting surfaces, there are various new sorts of impacts that may be skilled in Astro Bot.
And naturally, we couldn’t end this publish with out mentioning the Twin Speeder, one in every of Astro’s most recurrent devices, permitting him to fly into varied planets. The Twin Speeder makes full use of movement management, adaptive triggers and haptic suggestions. Here’s a piece of very early idea artwork and the way it seems to be within the closing recreation.
That’s all from us! We’ll be again quickly for extra information round Astro Bot. Till then, please inform us within the feedback what you consider this cool DualSense wi-fi controller – Astro Bot Limited Edition!
Astro Bot is out on PS5 on September 6, we’re ready for you all to hitch Astro for his first massive new journey.
Staff Asobi out.