Hello everybody! It’s a pleasure to be again right here to make one other Astro Bot-related reveal.
When you have been following Astro information as of late, then Group Asobi have been onerous 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 includes a DualSense wi-fi controller become a dwelling character and serving to Astro on his mission.
In the present day, 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, fastidiously crafted by the wonderful 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 traces 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 Group Asobi.
With this dynamic addition to your set-up, a supersized house journey awaits…
Beginning Friday, August 9 at 7am PT within the U.S. and 10am native time within the U.Ok., France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Portugal, gamers will be capable to pre-order the DualSense wi-fi controller – Astro Bot Limited Edition by means of direct.ps.com, in addition to from choose retailers. Pre-orders will even be accessible by means of choose retailers in different world markets on the identical day. The DualSense wi-fi controller – Astro Bot Limited Edition might be accessible in restricted portions for $79.99/ €79.99 / £69.99 / ¥11,980 and can launch on September 6, day-in-date with the launch of Astro Bot.
I’ll take this opportunity to summarize a number of 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’ll be able to 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 now we have elevated the variety of textures you’ll be able to really feel by means of 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’ll be able to 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 remedy so it is possible for you to to expertise varied expressions by means of your fingers.
Lastly, given the variety of enemies and boss battles we added to this new journey, it was vital to work on battle and impacts by combining the entire above. Whether or not it’s stretching, pounding or pummeling onerous surfaces, there are a lot of new kinds of impacts that may be skilled in Astro Bot.
And naturally, we couldn’t end this submit with out mentioning the Twin Speeder, one among 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 appears to be like 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 affix Astro for his first huge new journey.
Group Asobi out.