A first look at Kojima’s OD Xbox game

Hideo Kojima archetypal announced helium was teaming up with Xbox for a caller crippled successful 2022, earlier a teaser revealed the OD name and immoderate formed past year. We’re present getting a amended look astatine precisely what OD is, successful a caller three-minute teaser trailer that holds existent to Kojima’s committedness that the crippled volition beryllium unsocial and immersive.

The trailer opens with Sophia Lillis’ quality opening a reddish door, and past lighting candles — immoderate of which look similar Death Stranding babies. With rainfall pouring down extracurricular and mysterious knocking sounds, it’s wide OD volition precise overmuch thin into fearfulness for its gameplay arsenic Lillis’ quality shakes successful fear.

The trailer besides shows disconnected immoderate of the aboriginal Unreal Engine enactment that Kojima Productions is undertaking for OD, alongside Microsoft’s assistance. Xbox main Phil Spencer confirmed connected signifier astatine Kojima Productions’ 10th Anniversary livestream that improvement of the crippled is “well underway,” and that Microsoft is helping with the visuals and method work.

“OD is bold, it’s unique, and it’s unmistakably from this studio,“ says Spencer. ”We’re profoundly supporting the production, it’s our method enactment connected Unreal that we’re doing with the team, some with the flashy what you seen connected the screen, but besides a batch of the down the scenes work.”

OD is billed arsenic thing of a transverse betwixt a crippled and a movie, with a committedness of exploring concepts that trial “your fearfulness threshold.” Unreal Engine volition thrust the acquisition of OD, alternatively of the Sony-owned Decima motor that powers some Death Stranding titles. Kojima had precocious praise for Unreal Engine astatine the 10th day event, though. “The exertion is 1 measurement higher than Death Stranding 2,” said Kojima.

While we cognize Jordan Peele is someway progressive successful OD, Kojima did enactment contiguous that the filmmaker is moving connected different portion of the wide OD experience. That mightiness beryllium wherefore the crippled is subtitled OD Knock, to differentiate it from immoderate Peele is moving on.

We inactive don’t cognize precisely erstwhile OD will arrive, contempt promises that improvement is good underway. “Kojima is innovating successful gameplay, story, and subordinate engagement,” says Spencer. “We’re collaborating closely, and we’re precise excited for what’s next.”