Vampyr has been rapidly approaching its release date of June 5, 2018. The game was in full force at publisher Focus Home Interactive?s recent Le What?s Next De Focus event in Paris. PlayStation LifeStyle was granted two full hours to play the beginning of this upcoming action RPG, and we have our initial impressions ready for you below.
Uncontrollable Thirst
This tale begins in quite a memorable location ? Dr. Jonathan Reid ?awakens? to find himself thrown onto a pile of bodies. Dazed, he slowly comes to, and shambles across a nearby deck. He can?t quite make out the shadowy figures around him, and in his confusion performs an action which will have countless ramifications. It?s a quick but powerful sequence (one which we are under NDA to not divulge the details of), and sets up the player?s motivation quite well. Vampyr is being developed on Unreal Engine 4. As with many of the games shown at Focus Home Interactive?s event, we were playing on souped-up PCs, so the graphics were likely turned up a bit higher than will be seen on home consoles. But the Unreal Engine has a history of performing very well on consoles, and this will likely be the case when the final product is shipped on the PlayStation 4. The mood in Vampyr is constantly a dark one, with the streets of 1918 London dimly lit, and the pestilence of the area a reminder that the Spanish flu made conditions horrendous.
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