We’re excited to say that Alien: Rogue Incursion is prepared on your PS VR2 – we’ve gone gold and are placing the ending touches on the sport, which is releasing on December 19. To have fun, we’ve got a brand-new trailer that delves deeper into Zula’s story on LV-354, often known as Purdan.

How did we go about making this trailer? Trailers are tough issues. That you must rapidly break via the noise of on a regular basis life, seize the viewers’s consideration, and get them excited to see extra. It appears logical that you simply’d present probably the most incredible, and thrilling content material. However that strategy doesn’t totally work – followers usually complain that trailers give away an excessive amount of element in regards to the movie or sport.
Trailers must curate the important thing elements that followers anticipate, showcasing vital options in a compelling method and teasing parts that may blow gamers away, all whereas telling a self-contained story that begins and ends in roughly two minutes or much less. VR video games must each set up the world that you simply’ll be immersed in and to speak how you’ll function in that surroundings. We have now 2 minutes to make you are feeling that sense of presence and surprise.
Trailers usually give attention to a specific theme or function of the sport that the group needs to showcase. Up to now, for Alien: Rogue Incursion, we’ve launched trailers for our Hero Reveal, Enemies, Weapons & Gear, and many others. Followers of the Alien franchise are additionally vastly invested within the story, so this trailer introduces the viewers to the bigger narrative, offering the set-up of why Zula Hendricks is on LV-354, Purdan. What occurred to Zula’s pal and former squad mate there? What lethal experiments have the researchers at this facility been messing with?
Here’s a breakdown of how we approached this trailer and informed the “story of the story.”
One in all our early artistic selections was that no matter occurred on Purdan had already occurred. Zula is moving into the aftermath of some occasion that has left Castor’s Cradle – the analysis facility – infested with horrifying Xenomorphs. Selecting up the story after the power has been compromised permits us to leap proper into the suspense and motion.
The trailer follows a basic three-act construction, the place every act has a specific focus. Act One of many trailer’s focuses was “Thriller.” Zula and Davis One head to Purdan to satisfy with Zula’s former squad mate, Ben Carver. Whereas approaching Castor’s Cradle, they discover their communications are jammed. Abruptly, they’re fired upon by missiles and crash land on the facility. Act One of many trailer presents Zula -and the viewers – with many questions that want answering.
Act Two of our story trailer focuses on revealing these occasions and showcasing the “Dawning Horror.” We see inside the power and listen to the voices of the individuals who work there. We weave in basic Alien themes like company corruption, private greed, {and professional} hubris, all of which create an ideal storm of circumstances for a Xenomorph outbreak. Listening to this dialog over the imagery of destruction, smoke, hearth, and blood, we all know the power has already fallen.
Now for the Massive End! Our third act is The Enemy Revealed, the place we see what Zula is up towards. Extra truths are revealed in regards to the facility—together with that Gemini Exoplanet Options was experimenting with Xenomorphs—and, most significantly, the Xenomorphs have already taken over. Zula has seen so much in her storied profession, however she—and the participant —will uncover that the Xenomorphs at Castor’s Cradle are harder, sooner, and extra unpredictable than what she has encountered. They’re, in a phrase, advanced.
We’ve established by this level that hazard is actually in all places, and now we need to present gamers that you’ve got the means to struggle again. Armed along with your weapons (M41 Prototype Pulse Rifle, Shotgun, Revolver, and Tacticals), Gear (Movement Tracker, Plasma Torch, Well being Stims, Pill), and Davis 01 at your facet, you get to take the struggle to them – experiencing the world of Alien such as you by no means have earlier than. You’ll lastly get to really feel what it’s prefer to step into the world of the movies -Aliens in particular- and immerse your self in an expertise so visceral and actual that it’s going to change your perceptions ceaselessly.
Alien: Rogue Incursion launches December 19 on PS VR2. And that’s a promise, as the sport has already GONE GOLD! See you all at launch!