New details revealed for the RPG from Square Enix and Luminous Productions, formerly code-named Project Athia.
When we first announced Project Athia last year, we were overwhelmed with joy from seeing the excitement and conversations shared by fans online. Now, at long last, we’re ready to share the game’s official title and logo with you:
I’m also excited to share a brand-new scene from the game, which you can view here:
Forspoken is an action RPG where you will take on the role of Frey Holland, an ordinary young woman who must harness her magical abilities to survive in a fantastical and dangerous land called Athia. As Frey, you will embark on a thrilling, other-worldly adventure and face treacherous trials to unravel the mystery behind the unknown land of Athia and awaken something much more from within.
As you’ll see in the new game clip, Frey is able to traverse the world with incredible speed and fluidity. I can’t wait for players to experience firsthand just how satisfying it feels to move through Athia, scaling cliffs, and leaping across ravines in the future.
Frey takes center stage in Forspoken, and we’re delighted to announce that actor, Ella Balinska is performing the character. We were looking for someone who could convincingly portray Frey’s dynamic character, and we knew immediately that Ella was the perfect person to play her. From the beginning, Ella understood the themes and concept of the game and was able to channel this in her performance to bring Frey’s character to life. Not only is Ella talented and well matched to the role of Frey, but she is also extremely passionate about Forspoken as her first video game project.
And there it is! On behalf of Square Enix and the entire Luminous Productions team, we hope you enjoyed the sneak peek. The creators are working hard around the world on the development of Forspoken, and we can’t wait for you to experience Frey’s story in 2022.
Looks incredible so far, hope the gameplay lives up to expectations.
This game looks absolutely next gen and it’s absurd that the hype meter isn’t cranked to 11. The amount of hype that mediocre third party exclusives like Quantum Break received, juxtaposed with the lack of hype that Forspoken is receiving is disheartening.
This might be the best looking game, visually, on NextGen as of yet. That luminous engine is highly underrated and say what you will but final fantasy XV on PS4 Pro was truly stunning in terms of visuals.
PlayStation just continuing to bombard us with quality exclusives while those other guys continue to live off of hype without results. I mean, I know people are excited about Bethesda and somehow everyone seems to think that magically every future Zenimax game will be exclusive (they won’t) but as far as right now in real life Xbox ain’t got Jack. Those poor fans are just getting a new iteration of “wait till next year” or the famous “greatest games lineup”. It’s unbelievable how Microsoft uses manipulation and false hype to Garner sales. To each their own I guess, but, I would imagine at some point fans would get sick of the lies and exaggeration.
DX12, Cloud tech, VR, greatest lineup, Hololense, Kinect, Play the game not the resolution, teraflops, RDNA, and so on. SX was hailed as a powerhouse unmatched by PS5 because of TERAFLOPS. People literally chose SX instead of PS5 because everybody “knew” third party games would be superior on Microsoft’s console. Not quite. Truth is, games are largely running better on PS5 and on top of that the dual sense controller makes PlayStation the preferred destination for multiplatform titles. Thus far, PS5 has the games, the performance, and the innovation.
I realize I went into a long-winded rant but it all comes back to the fact that PlayStation 5 is simply delivering in real time and beautiful looking games with release dates should be getting more hype than an interview with Phil Spencer where he says the word exclusives but commits to nothing. Forspoken looks to be the real deal and 2021/2022 are loaded on PS5.
I believe it’s a timed exclusive but yes you made your point.
The fact that series s isn’t involved in its planning and development is exciting too. Nothing is holding it back. ^_^
I need to see more of this game.
The name reveal isn’t that exiting.
Still very hyped about this game.
It’s early dude. Game didn’t even have a name revealed until now. Hard to start heavily hyping something that doesn’t even have a name. It’s Square Enix. They aren’t just going to forget to do massive marketing on a game. Look how much they’re doing for Outriders right now (and that’s an awful game).