Yesterday, Sony streamed another of its upcoming PlayStation games and while there were no updates on Grand Theft Auto 6, the hour-long session provided playthroughs of hotly-anticipated video games. You have the gameplay of Wolverine by Insomniac Games, the company behind the Spider-Man series; a longer trailer of the next Silent Hill game; and two announcements of sequels that I'm excited for.
As usual, if you missed the livestream, you can still watch the archived telecast at the end of this post. Here are the highlights from the presentation.
A mysterious protagonist who was rescued and now has to break out of the hospital that is overran by patients infected with an illness. Interesting visuals, but I've a sneaking suspicion that your playable protagonist might be the cause for the outbreak.
Oh my God. It's really bloody; the violence stopping short of seeing decapitations and the enemies' soft insides spilling out. Combat-wise, I can't wait to get my dirty mitts on the controller, but I can't get over the way how the bloodstains on Wolverine just disappers.
This is another trailer for the next Silent Hill video game, but I'm left as confused as when the first teaser started out. Then, again the conceit of many Silent Hill games is that the less the player know, the more effective the scares. So, now I'm creeped out and also confused. Guess, we'll wait when the game comes out 24 September, 2026
Now, this is one of two sequels that I was looking forward to. Having played the first Until Dawn game, it has always stymied me about how the other spin-offs couldn't hold a candle to the original. This Until Dawn sequel looks... interesting. Same basic premise of hormonal teens breaking into places that they have no business being at, but I'm holding off all judgement until the game come up.
Another sequel to award-winning Control, this time we get a sense of a story (although, it wasn't enough to paint a ghost of a plot), but any game developed by Remedy Entertainment gets a free pass on scepticism.
Ah, now this is the sequel I've been waiting for. After God of War Ragnarok, you'd think that the next instalment would star the original emo as he travels to another country to get in contact with the other war gods, nope. For this upcoming chapter of the God of War series, Kratos' wife, Laufey, will take the limelight.
We start at the point where Kratos and Atreus set Laufey's body on fire, as per custom. After a cutscene, we get to control Laufey, who is on the mission to return to Midgard (where Kratos and Artreus) to thwart some impending disaster. We are introduced to Begtse (the Tibetan god of war) and Sekhmet (the Egyptian goddess of war and healing), and later on, a sword with talking ribbons called Rue and a equally-talkative gelatinous cube called Phranque (we have no idea which myth the sword and cube came from).
Lufey is played by Deborah Ann Woll, who originally appeared in the first God of War, but is now getting her flowers for this instalment. Rue is played by Perlina Lau and Phranque, by Jack Quaid.
For other games, check out the whole stream of State of Play below:
