The PlayStation Showcase included a ton of trailers for games coming soon (and not so soon). Here’s a look at all the best trailers from the event.
When we heard the PlayStation Showcase was only set to deliver 40 minutes of trailers for the latest games coming to PS5 – none of which would feature PSVR 2 footage – we were a bit skeptical about how much quality content we’d see from Sony. As it turns out, however,40 minutes was more than enough time to absolutely floor us with a veritable cornucopia of awesome announcements, from the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Remake to a teaser trailer for Marvel Wolverine from Insomniac Games. By our count, there were 18 phenomenal trailers that made their debut at the showcase, each of which we’ve embedded below to save a few minutes of your time. Sony started out strong with a trailer for KOTORR… er, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Remake for all you non-nerf herders out there. The trailer, which sees the slow unveiling of Darth Revan with narration from Bastilla Shan, is absolutely stunning – though unlikely to be used in the final game. Still, high polygon-count models are beautiful to look at and the fact that we’ve been waiting almost 20 years for this makes it all that much sweeter. Kratos’ epic adventures of fatherhood will continue in God of War: Ragnarok, a trailer of which made its debut during the Showcase event. While Kratos is partially there doing dad things (d’aw!) he’s also seen wielding the Blades of Chaos from his days as a Greek Pantheon-killing machine, the results of which are just as bloody as you’d expect. Definitely put the little ones to bed before embarking on Santa Monica Studios’ next Nordic adventure. Set to the wonderful sounds of Babymetal’s “Gimme Chocolate!!”, the latest trailer for Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands features explosions, guns… and a river of orange soda. Sounds about right for a Borderlands spin-off. Like previous entries in the series, this one’s all about looting and shooting, but Wonderlands adds elements of magic and fantasy to mix up the carnage. While most games would never be brave enough to mix dragons, unicorns and rocket launchers, developer Gearbox Software certainly is, and the results are both dazzling and absolutely outrageous simultaneously. Sign us up. This is the first we’re hearing about Project Eve, a game from studio Shift Up that looks to be a hack-and-slash adventure set in the near post-apocalyptic future. With a sword-wielding female protagonist taking on huge monsters with slo-mo action and cinematic quick-time events, the game feels anime as heck. Project Eve doesn’t have a release date. We finally got a nice long look at Forspoken, a new action RPG from Square Enix that was previously known as Project Athia. In the three-minute long clip we get a better introduction to protagonist Frey Holland who’s an ordinary New Yorker who suddenly finds herself trapped in the mystical land of Athia. Packed with amazing magical abilities and a cynical companion we already know we’ll love to hate – the sentient bracelet Cuff – we can’t wait for Forspoken to release in Spring 2022.
