Opening Night Live was filled to the brim with game reveals, as well as extended gameplay demos. It featured titles for both current and next-gen hardware.
Opening Night Live, Geoff Keighley’s GamesCom presentation, featured two hours of game reveals and updates, headlined by a sneak peek at the second season of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout. The content in season 2 will be medieval-themed, with costumes including a dragon, wizard, knight, and witch coming to the game. This theme will extend to several new levels, all of which are of a Dark Ages design. An addition to the gameplay seems to be the need to move objects around to reach an objective. Season 2 of Fall Guys will launch in October. BioWare’s Casey Hudson, at no point mentioning what is happening with Anthem, called in to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the next Dragon Age game. Several developers on the game spoke about the process of making it and teased some of the story elements, while some concept art and very early gameplay was shown off with incomplete textures and models. The game is seemingly still very early in development Unknown 9: Awakening, a new game from Reflector Entertainment, a new studio based in Montreal, was revealed. It’s a next-gen title focused around Haroona, a young girl who has grown up on the streets of Kolkata, India. Haroona can wield the power of the Fold, an invisible dimension on top of our own. Haunted by her powers, as well as visions of her own death, she ultimately finds a mentor who can show her how to harness her abilities and provide some answers. The title is a part of the Unknown 9 “story world” as Reflector dubs it. There will be books, comics, and podcasts set in the game’s universe, and an interactive experience that gives players a glimpse at the world is available through the game’s website right now. Dan Vondrak, creative director at Raven, showed an extended cinematic clip from Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. In the clip, several military operatives discuss what seems to be the inciting incident for the game. A Soviet Union boogeyman by the name of Persius, who had previously stolen intel on nuclear weaponry during World War II and the Vietnam War, is now planning a direct attack on the West.
