The most effective surprises from Sony’s State of Play presentation at this time was the announcement of a brand new Astro Bot recreation. Astro’s Playroom, the pack-in recreation put in on PlayStation 5s in 2020, was a pleasant platformer that paid tribute to PlayStation’s historical past, confirmed off the tech of the DualSense controller, and was a blast to play. Now, we’re getting one other one from Group Asobi titled, merely, Astro Bot.
The sport leaked earlier this month, and most of the particulars from the leak turned out to be true. Astro Bot incorporates a fennec fox robotic character that accompanies Astro on his journey by way of quite a lot of environments. Astro additionally flies round on a DualSense controller at one level, so I anticipate that may most likely be steered by way of movement controls. Oh, there’s additionally a PlayStation 5 area ship. Wait, Kratos simply gave Astro his axe? Oh, it seems like he’s teaming up with a bunch of various PlayStation characters. This shit guidelines. Recreation of the 12 months contender, you heard it right here first. In contrast to Astro’s Playroom, it seems like Astro Bot shall be a boxed online game you could find on retailer cabinets on September 6.
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Astro originates from The Playroom, which was one other tech-demo-style expertise on the PlayStation 4 that launched alongside the system in 2013. This was adopted up with Playroom VR, which held the identical goal however for the PlayStation VR headset in 2016. The character lastly acquired a self-titled recreation with the superb Astro Bot Rescue Mission in 2018, a PlayStation VR unique. Astro’s Playroom was the primary full-fledged recreation starring Astro that didn’t require a peripheral, and it was a success, so it’s good to see the little man get a brand new recreation.
