Peter Molyneux’s return to recreation design was a spotlight at Gamescom Opening Evening Dwell, the place the legendary designer took the stage to formally announce his subsequent challenge: Masters of Albion.
Masters of Albion is an open-world technique god recreation that takes parts from Molyneux’s iconic titles from the 90s and 00s, similar to Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, and Fable. The sport is at the moment beneath improvement by former Fable builders and Mark Healey, the previous head of Media Molecule. 22cans has been listed because the developer.
“Gifted god-like, historical powers, you face an enemy the likes of which haven’t been seen in a whole bunch of years,” reads an outline on Steam.
“Magic is returning to the hills and halls of Albion, threatening to tear down the very foundations of society. Unravel the thriller of the mages, defeat the enemy that lurks within the evening, and conquer a sorcery that would kill us all.”
The challenge is self-funded by Molyneux, however the group is searching for a writer. In Molyneux’s personal phrases, “I would like to return residence” to PC gaming and consoles. His studio, 22cans, has centered on creating cell video games for the previous decade.
“After messing round on cell, what the hell was I doing? I assumed to myself,” stated Molyneux on stage through the Gamescom Opening Evening Dwell occasion.
“So I checked out Dungeon Keeper… I’ve taken issues from Black & White, I’ve completed the identical with Fable, and that is what I’m exhibiting tonight.”
Masters of Albion Launch Date
Masters of Albion doesn’t have a launch date but, however we count on to see it launched in some type of early entry by 2025. It’s being developed for PC, Xbox Collection X/S, and PlayStation 5.
It appears to be like like a playable construct is being proven to the press and the general public at Gamescom, and the sport’s system necessities have been set, so it shouldn’t be too lengthy earlier than we see extra from Masters of Albion.
Minimal Specs Really useful Specs OS: Home windows® 10 (64-bit) OS: Home windows® 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core i5-4670 (quad-core) / AMD FX-Collection FX-4350 (quad-core) Processor: Intel Core i5-7600 (quad-core) / AMD Ryzen 3 2200G (quad-core) Reminiscence: 8 GB RAM Reminiscence: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (2 GB) / AMD Radeon RX-460 (4 GB) / Intel Arc A380 (6 GB) Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) / AMD Radeon RX 580 (8 GB) / Intel Arc A580 (8 GB) DirectX: Model 12 DirectX: Model 12 Storage: 10 GB obtainable area Storage: 10 GB obtainable area
Masters of Albion Gameplay
In Masters of Albion, you’ll be able to design and manufacture merchandise for the folks of Oakridge, and fulfill order requests from exterior cities to earn cash to spend in your infrastructure and defenses. You colonise and broaden within the day, however by evening, you could defend towards waves of cruel creatures (zombies, werewolves, trolls, and spiders).
You possibly can defend your city by arming turrets with fantastical ammo that you just’ve designed, Rent heroes to struggle for you, and management them in third particular person utilizing the procession spell, very similar to you’ll the minions in Dungeon Keeper.
Uncover and improve highly effective Godhand powers – just like what we’ve seen in Black and White – together with lightning, flamethrowers, water cannons, and extra.
You possibly can see a few of the options from Black and White and Dungeon Keeper in Masters of Albion, however it reminded us of an outdated lengthy misplaced Crystal Dynamics recreation referred to as The Horde, the place you’ll spend most of your day increase your livestock and farm, solely to defend it at evening from the hungry purple monsters often known as Hordlings. Maybe a little bit of Majesty too.
You’ll find Masters of Albion on Steam.
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