One of the big surprises from Sony’s PlayStation State of Play broadcast was the announcement of a virtual reality game…
One of the big surprises from Sony’s PlayStation State of Play broadcast was the announcement of a virtual reality game based on Isaac Asimov’s much-loved sci-fi book series, Foundation.
Journey to Foundation, developed by Canadian studio Archiact, is due out on PSVR2, Meta Quest 2 and Pico 4 autumn 2023.
The announcement trailer, which begins with a quote from Asimov’s book, talks about the Empire falling and the galaxy plunging into 30,000 years of chaos and war. That’s very much the same setup as Asimov’s series, which revolves around a devastating prediction of humanity’s collapse by a maths genius called Hari Seldon. The Foundation itself is a group led by Seldon that attempts to limit the impact of this inevitable collapse by populating new, far-flung worlds. Suffice it to say, this plan does not go exactly to plan. Or maybe it does, if you’re Hari Seldon.
Now’s the time to look at the trailer for Journey to Foundation, below:
Foundation has long been considered unadaptable. That didn’t stop Apple giving it a good shot, with a much-hyped and incredibly flashy TV series that gets its second season this summer. Foundation’s first series didn’t go down well with fans of the books in part because it didn’t have much to do with them. While it shared the same premise and some of the characters, it devolved into standard, banal sci-fi fare, with action scenes unrecognisable from the source material.
(I will say that Lee Pace, who plays Brother Day, is spectacular in the TV show, and steals every scene.
