Abstract
Tides of Annihilation is an action-adventure recreation set in a modern-day, invasion-fractured London, the place the lone survivor, Gwendolyn, seeks the Holy Grail to rescue her sister and restore the world. A core distinctive characteristic is the Twin Frontline Battle System, that permits Gwendolyn to summon and command spectral types of the Knights of the Spherical Desk, using their assaults and customizable skills in fight. The brand new trailer highlighted a spectacular boss combat in opposition to the witch Tyronoe, showcasing a brand new mechanic to the Twin Frontline Battle system the place the participant controls each Gwendolyn and the knight Sir Lamorak, to beat Mirror Area Folded Realm.
Hiya gaming mates, my identify is Kun Fu, lead recreation producer at Eclipse Glow Video games. I’m a part of the group growing Tides of Annihilation, a brand new action-adventure title set in a shattered model of modern-day London fractured by an otherworldly invasion. You play as Gwendolyn, the lone human survivor, who takes on an important quest to rescue her sister and restore the world by looking for the legendary Holy Grail. After revealing Tides in February, we acquired a lot superb suggestions that helped our improvement. As we speak, we’re revealing our latest gameplay trailer showcasing the extreme fight mechanics in a boss combat, in addition to providing a deeper have a look at the knights summoning system avid gamers will be capable to expertise.
Tides of Annihilation’s story and setting takes inspiration from Arthurian Legend. Early within the recreation, Gwendolyn good points the flexibility to summon and command spectral types of the Knights of the Roundtable. That is our Twin Frontline Battle System, is one of many key distinctive options the place gamers will make the most of completely different assaults of every knight in fight, in addition to customise their configuration and skills. There’s a variety of depth on this system; we wish gamers to really feel that every of the knights are greater than only a device for use, however extra like a “sidekick” to help of their quest to save lots of humanity. There’s extra to disclose on the Twin Frontline Battle System, however let’s give attention to the featured Knight within the trailer, Sir Lamorak, who assists Gwendolyn in her spectacular battle in opposition to the witch-boss Tyronoe.
Within the latest trailer debuting at at the moment’s Xbox Companion Preview showcase, the footage builds as much as a boss combat the place Gwendolyn should overcome the shape-shifting and reality-bending powers of Tyronoe. When Tyronoe transforms into a large hen beast, she spawns clones to assault Gwendolyn after which creates a Mirror Area Folded Realm that Gwendolyn can not go by way of to combat Tyronoe. That is when Lamorak seems contained in the Mirror Area, interferes with Tyronoe’s assault, and assists Gwendolyn by throwing his spear for her to wield, enabling Gwendolyn to “shatter” this mirrored barrier separating the Folded Realms.
This boss combat is an distinctive demonstration of how we mix high-intense motion with cinematic-like visible splendor: as gamers combat on the bottom and in air whereas each inside and outdoors the mirror, the size of battle is expanded the place motion and assault timing have to be much more exact, fast and decisive. Our dev group are large cinema followers and the dimension-shifting fight sequences have been impressed by iconic motion scenes from Inception, The Matrix, and Dr. Unusual. Like these memorable film scenes resulting in a giant confrontation, we needed gamers to really feel that very same euphoria – a mix of pleasure and dread – within the boss fights of Tides of Annihilation.
This boss combat not solely highlights the dazzling visuals as extra advanced mirror areas are created by Tyronoe, it additionally reveals a brand new a part of the distinctive Twin Frontline Battle system. We first confirmed off this method in our announcement trailer that enabled gamers to arrange two units of spectral knight summons (4 knights complete at a time). Totally different knights could be summoned to boost Gwendolyn’s skills and can be particularly helpful in executing mixture chain assaults. Gamers can freely swap knights within the midst of battle – even mid-combo – to increase chains or regulate your ways (e.g., time-stop, defensive protect, and so forth.). On this new trailer, the knight Sir Lamorak lends his energy to Gwendolyn enabling theplayer to manage each Gwendolyn and Lamorak concurrently to combat inside and outdoors the mirror Folded Realm. The power to summon, command and management spectral knights with the Twin Frontline Battle system is all about giving gamers the liberty to form their very own fight fashion.
With Tides of Annihilation, our dev group needed to convey an epic and distinctive recreation story constructed on the treasured tales of valor, chivalry, and loyalty of the Arthurian legends. Having this story take place in a singular modern-day setting brings a unique but acquainted perspective. We additionally felt this was a superb alternative to inform new tales on heroes that is probably not as-well-known in Arthurian lore; Sir Lamorak and Tyronoe are two good examples of such characters as Gwendolyn uncovers how the fates of each this valorous knight and diabolical witch are intertwined in insanity and battle.
We need to thank the Xbox group for this nice alternative and are excited on the potential of Xbox Play Anyplace, a characteristic that Tides of Annihilation will assist sooner or later. As Tides of Annihilation is in energetic improvement, we look ahead to the response to this new gameplay trailer and admire all suggestions in our quest to make the very best recreation doable.
