At The Game Awards, Naughty Dog launched its subsequent large sport, and it is totally different than something it is completed earlier than. The sport is known as Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and seems to be set in a far-flung however nonetheless very grounded science-fiction future.
The cinematic trailer confirmed the heroic bounty hunter, Jordan A. Mun performed by Tatiana Gabrielle, receiving a name from a dispatcher and taking a job to the damaging planet Sempiria. She dismisses considerations about individuals going there and by no means returning as superstition, and casts warning to the wind. We then see her taking off in her Porsche spaceship, and confronting a hulking robotic menace. Though the sport did not present fight or different gameplay footage, host Geoff Keighley famous it was all rendered in-engine.
In a separate submit from Naughty Dog printed alongside the debut, the studio revealed that it has been engaged on this venture since 2020. The submit notes that Jordan does in truth change into stranded on Sempiria, and her story includes her makes an attempt to be the primary to flee the cursed planet in additional than 600 years. The sport is being scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and it certain seems to be like Kumail Nanjiani will likely be in it.
This marks Naughty Dog’s first sport since 2020’s The Last of Us Part II. Since then, nonetheless, issues have remained hectic for the studio, even exterior of this venture. In 2023, The Last of Us premiered on HBO as a live-action adaptation of the primary sport. The second season is scheduled to debut in 2025 and is alleged to adapt some, however not all, of the online game sequel’s story, with a future season anticipated to additional the story from there.
Originally, Naughty Dog was engaged on a multiplayer spin-off primarily based on The Last of Us’ Factions mode. The Last of Us Online was going to be a PvP sport that might transfer the single-player’s ambiance and gritty fight right into a multiplayer expertise with live-service components. The sport was canceled two years in the past and Naughty Dog mentioned it could be staying centered on single-player video games.
