After each teases and leaks, Hazelight Studios’ new sport, Split Fiction, has been formally revealed at The Game Awards.
Director of Hazelight Studios Josef Fares was available to quickly clarify a number of options of his workforce’s upcoming co-op journey, which stars two aspiring writers who inadvertently wind up inside the identical simulation of one in all their tales. Discovering their tales are about to be stolen by a sinister tech firm, they want to determine find out how to escape “by the very worlds that they created.”
With every degree leaping between a sci-fi world and a fantasy world, Split Fiction additionally guarantees distinctive mechanics for each degree, together with dragons that emerge as hatchlings earlier than rising into “full-ass dragons” that may “fly round and kick ass.”
Fares confirmed that, as with earlier Hazelight video games, you’ll solely want to purchase one copy of the sport to get pleasure from it co-op with a good friend.
“That is what Hazelight is about,” defined Fares. “No loot containers, no microtransactions, and no bulls–t. You simply get the sport.”
Split Fiction is being printed by EA beneath its EA Originals label, similar to It Takes Two and A Means Out earlier than it. It is coming to PC and consoles on March 6, 2025.
There’s loads of stress on Split Fiction after how nicely It Takes Two was obtained. It Takes Two netted a 9/10 overview rating right here at IGN, with our reviewer calling it “a spectacular co-op journey that lays down a path of nice gameplay concepts and makes use of it to play a giddy sport of hopscotch.” It additionally received Game of the 12 months, Greatest Household Game, and Greatest Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards 2021, together with quite a few different awards at different reveals. There’s at present a movie adaptation underway at Amazon Studios, produced by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
For extra, IGN went hands-on with Split Fiction forward of right now’s reveal.
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