Throughout January 18’s Xbox Developer Direct, Obsidian Leisure introduced that Avowed, its subsequent massive open-world RPG, will launch this fall. It’s at the moment slated to look on Xbox Collection X/S and PC. It additionally launched the primary gameplay for the upcoming Skyrim-like RPG.
Within the new trailer, Obsidian Leisure confirmed off numerous gameplay parts, together with the seamless transition from melee to ranged fight with spells, weapons, and swords—so you may play the way you need if you need. There are even parries and particular assaults to offer selection throughout fights, significantly as enemies seem like tactical of their method to encounters. Hell, you may even dual-wield wands for those who actually need to be a gunslinging mage. It seems rad.
Avowed is an RPG set in the identical world, Eora, as the Pillars of Eternity sequence. Whereas the Pillars of Eternity video games are conventional top-down RPGs, Avowed is extra like Skyrim, that includes first-person fight, exploration, magic, and a plethora of choice-based choices that impression the sport’s narrative.
The sport was first revealed through a brief teaser trailer again in July 2020, throughout one other Microsoft showcase. It’s being constructed utilizing Unreal Engine 4 like Obsidian’s different first-person RPG, The Outer Worlds. However not like earlier Obsidian video games, Avowed will probably be unique to Xbox and PC, ditching PlayStation and Change.
This isn’t shocking contemplating that Microsoft purchased Obsidian Leisure again in 2018 and is publishing Avowed. And like all different first-party Xbox video games, it’ll launch day one on the corporate’s subscription service Recreation Move.
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After Microsoft bought the studio, Obsidian launched Grounded, a first-person survival recreation that launched solely on Xbox and PC in July 2020. Earlier than that, in 2019, it launched The Outer Worlds, a first-person RPG that performed lots just like the studio’s extremely regarded 2010 journey Fallout: New Vegas. The Outer Worlds was in growth earlier than the Microsoft buyout and as such was revealed by Personal Division for a number of consoles—together with a really, very tough Change port.