Whereas indie developer Movement Blur has been comparatively quiet about its upcoming title, Black Slate, because the sport’s announcement again in July 2024, the studio has been showcasing the title at CES 2025, and you’ll take a look at under round 3 and a half minutes of gameplay footage.
Going by the video, among the influences of seminal video games like Steel Gear Stable are evident, with fairly a number of of the title’s designs seemingly coming proper out of the pages of Yoji Shinkawa’s artwork guide. The video additionally signifies that the sport’s visible constancy positively a excessive precedence oft he studio. There are lavishly-designed rooms with unimaginable ranges of reflections everywhere.
The video additionally provides us a short have a look at what we will anticipate from Black Slate on the subject of gameplay. The sport might be a third-person shooter the place the participant will make use of canopy to take down enemies that vary from common troopers to all-out demons with telekinetic powers.
A wide range of weapons are additionally proven off, from the common-or-garden assault rifle, to an odd gun that appears to shoot electrical energy.
Black Slate could have gamers taking over the function of a navy “legend”, in line with the sport’s authentic announcement, and can set out on a mission to uncover the reality a couple of cataclysmic occasion, and whereas they’re at it, additionally rescue a scientist that could be by some means linked to those occasions.
Alongside Steel Gear Stable, the studio has beforehand additionally cited different video games as inspiration, together with The Final of Us and Uncharted, on the subject of how the video games have been developed, and the way they influenced gameplay mechanics going ahead.
Black Slate is presently in improvement on PC, and doesn’t but have a launch date. The sport is being developed by making use of Unreal Engine 5.
