As teased earlier this week, Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio has today unveiled the first details of his next game at WolfEye Studios.
While the game’s name is still under wraps, this new project is a first-person action RPG that’s set in an alternate America in the 1900s, marking a shift in time and perspective from the top-down, isometric sandbox towns of WolfEye’s debut game, Weird West.
As the studio also previously teased, the new game’s visuals will be grounded in a retro sci-fi aesthetic – and if the first three in-game screenshots didn’t already give it away, Colantonio (who’s creative director for this new game) and executive producer Julien Roby tell me over a video call that both its gameplay and art direction are intended to be “something like Fallout meets Dishonored”.
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“That’s where we want to be, we want to be in that space,” Colantonio tells me. “If there is such a thing as a continuum between Fallout and Dishonored, I would say Prey is somewhere in the middle because it’s already more RPG than Dishonored, and this new game is somewhere closer to Fallout, as far as the RPG-ness goes.”