Abstract
- Tides of Annihilation is an action-adventure recreation set in a modern-day, invasion-fractured London, the place the lone survivor, Gwendolyn, seeks the Holy Grail to rescue her sister and restore the world.
- A core distinctive function is the Twin Frontline Battle System, that permits Gwendolyn to summon and command spectral kinds of the Knights of the Spherical Desk, using their assaults and customizable talents in fight.
- The brand new trailer highlighted a spectacular boss battle in opposition to the witch Tyronoe, showcasing a brand new mechanic to the Twin Frontline Battle system the place the participant controls each Gwendolyn and the knight Sir Lamorak, to beat Mirror House Folded Realm.
Hey gaming associates, my title is Kun Fu, lead recreation producer at Eclipse Glow Video games. I’m half of the crew creating Tides of Annihilation, a brand new action-adventure title set in a shattered model of modern-day London fractured by an otherworldly invasion. You play as Gwendolyn, the lone human survivor, who takes on a significant quest to rescue her sister and restore the world by trying to find the legendary Holy Grail. After revealing Tides in February, we acquired a lot superb suggestions that helped our improvement. Right this moment, we’re revealing our latest gameplay trailer showcasing the intense fight mechanics in a boss battle, in addition to providing a deeper have a look at the knights summoning system avid gamers will be capable to expertise.
Tides of Annihilation’s story and setting takes inspiration from Arthurian Legend. Early in the recreation, Gwendolyn positive aspects the potential to summon and command spectral kinds of the Knights of the Roundtable. That is our Twin Frontline Battle System, is one of the key distinctive options the place gamers will make the most of totally different assaults of every knight in fight, in addition to customise their configuration and talents. There’s loads of depth in this technique; we would like gamers to really feel that every of the knights are greater than only a software for use, however extra like a “sidekick” to help in their quest to save lots of humanity. There’s extra to disclose on the Twin Frontline Battle System, however let’s concentrate on the featured Knight in the trailer, Sir Lamorak, who assists Gwendolyn in her spectacular battle in opposition to the witch-boss Tyronoe.
In the latest trailer debuting at at this time’s Xbox Partner Preview showcase, the footage builds as much as a boss battle the place Gwendolyn should overcome the shape-shifting and reality-bending powers of Tyronoe. When Tyronoe transforms into a large chook beast, she spawns clones to assault Gwendolyn and then creates a Mirror House Folded Realm that Gwendolyn can’t cross by way of to battle Tyronoe. That is when Lamorak seems inside the Mirror House, interferes with Tyronoe’s assault, and assists Gwendolyn by throwing his spear for her to wield, enabling Gwendolyn to “shatter” this mirrored barrier separating the Folded Realms.
This boss battle is an distinctive demonstration of how we mix high-intense motion with cinematic-like visible splendor: as gamers battle on the floor and in air whereas each inside and outdoors the mirror, the scale of battle is expanded the place motion and assault timing must be much more exact, fast and decisive. Our dev crew are large cinema followers and the dimension-shifting fight sequences have been impressed by iconic motion scenes from Inception, The Matrix, and Dr. Unusual. Like these memorable film scenes resulting in an enormous confrontation, we needed gamers to really feel that very same euphoria – a mix of pleasure and dread – in the boss fights of Tides of Annihilation.
This boss battle not solely highlights the dazzling visuals as extra advanced mirror areas are created by Tyronoe, it additionally reveals a brand new half of the distinctive Twin Frontline Battle system. We first confirmed off this technique in our announcement trailer that enabled gamers to arrange two units of spectral knight summons (4 knights whole at a time). Completely different knights may be summoned to reinforce Gwendolyn’s talents and can be particularly helpful in executing mixture chain assaults. Gamers can freely swap knights in the midst of battle – even mid-combo – to increase chains or alter your techniques (e.g., time-stop, defensive defend, and many others.). On this new trailer, the knight Sir Lamorak lends his energy to Gwendolyn enabling theplayer to regulate each Gwendolyn and Lamorak concurrently to battle inside and outdoors the mirror Folded Realm. The power to summon, command and management spectral knights with the Twin Frontline Battle system is all about giving gamers the freedom to form their very own fight type.
With Tides of Annihilation, our dev crew needed to convey an epic and distinctive recreation story constructed on the treasured tales of valor, chivalry, and loyalty of the Arthurian legends. Having this story take place in a singular modern-day setting brings a special but acquainted perspective. We additionally felt this was a great alternative to inform new tales on heroes that is probably not as-well-known in Arthurian lore; Sir Lamorak and Tyronoe are two good examples of such characters as Gwendolyn uncovers how the fates of each this valorous knight and diabolical witch are intertwined in insanity and battle.
We need to thank the Xbox crew for this nice alternative and are excited at the potential of Xbox Play Anyplace, a function that Tides of Annihilation will help in the future. As Tides of Annihilation is in lively improvement, we sit up for the response to this new gameplay trailer and respect all suggestions in our quest to make the greatest recreation potential.