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Leslie Benzies, former GTA producer and Rockstar North president, and founding father of developer Build A Rocket Boy, unveiled the primary gameplay trailer for his upcoming sport, MindsEye, coming this summer time. The third-person motion sport is about in a futuristic world “the place AI and human greed collide to carry earth to the precipice of collapse,” which positive is a far-fetched sci-fi idea, proper? Right? You can try the trailer, revealed at present at PlayStation State of Play, above.
Maybe I’m studying an excessive amount of into it, however is Benzies understanding a couple of issues together with his new sport? Did his years of engaged on Grand Theft Auto video games make him hate vehicles? He positive blows up a number of them within the gameplay trailer, too many to be a coincidence. Shoot one million bullets at a bunch of vehicles and a few of ’em are gonna blow up, positive, and a few of ’em do, after which extra of ’em do, and at one level I swear the primary character just about stops what he is doing simply to particularly blow up one automobile specifically.
I’ll say this: the car-blowing-up results are the very best a part of the trailer. The relaxation appears like “We’ve obtained GTA at residence” blended with “We’ve obtained Cyberpunk at residence” and “We’ve obtained Watch_Dogs at residence.” Not that it does not look enjoyable. Cars, weapons, drones, third-person capturing and canopy, extra drones, extra vehicles, and a determined man with a cyber implant in his head. His title is not V, although. It’s Jacob.
“MindsEye follows Jacob Diaz, geared up with a mysterious neural implant, the MindsEye, that has left him with disjointed flashbacks of his time within the service,” says a press launch despatched to PC Gamer. “As Jacob fights to uncover the reality, he’s drawn right into a world the place AI, high-tech experimentation, and unchecked navy energy impression each step of his journey.”
That journey apparently consists of placing car insurance coverage firms out of enterprise by exploding every part on 4 wheels.
Not proven within the trailer or talked about by Benzies himself throughout State of Play is Everywhere, which in 2022 was described as a “multi-world sport expertise that blurs the road between actuality and the digital world.” We had been instructed MindsEye would happen inside Everywhere, and for context, this was again when everybody was making guarantees concerning the “metaverse,” that subsequent massive factor everybody rapidly stopped speaking about as a result of it was nonsense (now they simply speak about AI, the subsequent subsequent massive factor, which can proceed till the following subsequent subsequent massive factor).
In the press launch despatched to PC Gamer, it solely says “MindsEye® is an EVERYWHERE® world,” however that is it. Does that imply Everywhere, no matter it’s (possibly one thing extra like Roblox for adults), will not be prepared when Mindseye launches in summer time 2025? I’ll ask Build a Rocket Boy for clarification about Everywhere and replace this story if I study extra.
