Hexworks and CI Video games are operating on a sequel to 2023 action-RPG Lords Of The Fallen, itself a sequel to 2014 action-RPG Lords Of The Fallen. It is slated to release in 2026. Will the brand new Lords Of The Fallen even be known as Lords Of The Fallen? Will it construct at the thrilling inventions of Lords Of The Fallen, or will it search to recapture the nostalgic charms of Lords Of The Fallen? Most likely in ten years time we’re going to do a listing characteristic, “Lords Of The Fallen Video games Ranked”, with only one access. I am lovely positive that during 10 years time, generative AI plagiarism can have rendered the whole thing interchangeable anyway.
The brand new Lords Of The Fallen – once more, to not be at a loss for words with Lords Of The Fallen, to mention not anything of Lords Of The Fallen – is lately known as Venture 3. Apparently on a brand new CI Video games technique record, noticed via Insider Gaming. It’ll run on Unreal Engine 5 and have such “gameplay enhancements” as “higher recreation mode optionality, extra industrial artwork taste and narrative, increased manufacturing values”, which I might kind of translate as “greater collection of modes, an artwork taste and narrative that can enchantment to extra avid gamers, and an general posher feel and appear with, I don’t know, catchier menu fonts and suchlike”. It’ll have a unmarried participant marketing campaign with complete “shared-progression” co-op, and we will be expecting a right kind announcement in 2025. Oh, and Epic have ponied as much as make it unique to Epic Video games Retailer on PC. Unhappy trombone!
Resident RPS Soulsliker Edders wasn’t particularly offered on Lords Of The Fallen, mentioning that “realm-hopping magic can not stay this Soulslike from getting in your nerves”, however he did charge it upper than Lords Of The Fallen, which Wealthy Stanton summarised as “the sport so moderate it does not need you to play”. CI Video games reckon the collection has a number of juice, on the other hand – within the record, they describe it as considered one of “two main evergreen franchises”, including that the 2023 sequel accounted for 72 % of corporate earnings within the first part of 2024.
CI’s different “main evergreen franchise” is camo-faced shooter Sniper Ghost Warrior, which is due every other “main iteration” in 2027, once more working on Unreal Engine 5. CI are partnering with an unnamed exterior studio in this one. It’ll be a mixture of survival recreation and shooter, and building has been “expedited” via reusing a number of stuff from two different tasks, “Venture Live to tell the tale” – described in other places within the record as a “new survival style IP” – and “SGW Subsequent”.
We’ve now not written a lot concerning the Sniper Ghost Warrior collection of past due, regardless that Alice0 (RPS in peace) did a banger pun about Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts having a smaller center of attention again in 2018. I feel the closing one I performed used to be a preview construct of Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 in… 2016? I wasn’t vastly enthused, however at the upside, I will be able to a minimum of write about a number of Sniper Ghost Warrior video games without delay with out feeling like I am the butt of the comic story in Who is On First.
Remaining however now not least, CI Video games have a “main new action-RPG” drawing close from Underdog Studio, which is able to use “techniques and structure” from the newest Lords Of The Fallen and regardless of the subsequent Lords Of The Fallen recreation is named. It’s lately in pre-production with a small crew, and can confidently move into manufacturing in past due 2025, at which level Hexworks must be in place to assist out by the use of “cross-studio ability allocation”. All going to plot, it is going to unencumber in 2028.
