On September 22, Dune: Awakening is coming to PlayStation 5.
Dune: Awakening is an open world survival recreation set on probably the most legendary planet within the universe: Arrakis. Rise from survival to greatness, as you discover, construct, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story that asks the mind-bending query: what if Paul Atreides was by no means born?
Dune: Awakening has been obtainable on PC since final yr, and through that point we’ve added a ton of content material and enhanced core gameplay methods. The sport is best than ever, and with its debut on PlayStation 5, we’re including much more together with a full single-player mode.
PlayStation avid gamers shall be handled to the perfect model of Dune: Awakening but. All of the enhancements and additions that we’ve been engaged on for the previous yr shall be on PlayStation day one.
We’ve put collectively a Developer Deep Dive video exploring what’s coming within the PlayStation 5 model of the sport. Test it out:
Optimized for PlayStation 5
The group has spent a number of effort and time ensuring the expertise on PlayStation 5 is the perfect it may be. UI and controls have been tailor-made to the console expertise, and we’ve put a number of concentrate on ensuring the sport is extremely optimized for each PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Professional.
On the bottom PlayStation 5, Efficiency Mode will run at 60fps with frame-gen. On PlayStation 5 Professional, Efficiency Mode runs at 60fps with out frame-gen. High quality Mode will run at 30fps on each methods. The sport runs in upscaled 4K on each PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Professional, in each Efficiency and High quality Mode. We’ll present extra particular technical particulars as we get nearer to launch, together with an summary of native resolutions.
Survival video games usually have a repute for being complicated and difficult to be taught. With Dune: Awakening, our design philosophy from day one has been to make it a extra accessible survival expertise.
Not much less difficult, however much less difficult to be taught. We’ve carried out methods that educate you the sport and ease you into its core parts, and there’s additionally a robust narrative thread that guides you thru the journey from survivalist to hero as a substitute of simply dropping you in the midst of a literal sandbox.
To place it like this: for those who’re skeptical about survival video games, Dune: Awakening is a good portal for you into the style!
Single-player mode: a recreation changer
The most important new addition PlayStation 5 avid gamers can sit up for is the single-player mode. Proper now, on PC, the sport is solely multiplayer and single-player mode is by far one of many top-requested options.
Making an inherently multiplayer recreation work in full single-player has not been a simple job. The group has spent months ensuring the expertise interprets effectively. It’s not simply eradicating multiplayer performance; each side of the sport must make sense in a single-player format.
For instance, in multiplayer, the endgame in Dune: Awakening is constructed round gamers competing over particular aims to ensure their faction – Home Atreides or Home Harkonnen – beneficial properties management over the Landsraad. Controlling the Landsraad provides them the power to make selections that may influence gameplay for everybody throughout the server. In single-player, as a substitute of eradicating or downscaling this a part of the sport, we’re as a substitute simulating different gamers competing for these aims, ensuring it’s nonetheless a compelling and engrossing a part of the expertise.
We’re additionally introducing a variety of gameplay customization choices, permitting you to scale the issue to your liking. Wish to harvest sources quicker and even disable the sandworm? That’s your selection. You can too customise all these choices for those who select to hire a non-public server for you and your mates.
The brand new single-player mode means that you can play the sport the best way you wish to, at your individual tempo.
Obtainable in digital and bodily format
We’re additionally excited to share that we’ll be releasing a bodily version of Dune: Awakening. We’re teaming up with Bandai Namco Leisure Europe who will put the sport on cabinets in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and with Options 2 GO for North and South America. It is going to even be launched in retail in Japan, with a writer to be introduced later.
In Japan, the sport is anticipated to launch in October, with pre-orders commencing quickly.
With the third installment in Denis Villeneuve’s and Legendary Leisure’s epic Dune franchise coming to theatres in December, the bodily version generally is a nice vacation present for Dune followers across the globe.
Are you able to survive on Arrakis?
Arrakis is a check that few will survive, and Dune: Awakening represents the final word survival fantasy. On September 22 it’s time to show whether or not you may survive probably the most harmful planet within the universe.
Dune: Awakening could be wishlisted and pre-ordered at this time.
