Insomniac Games has presented the team’s next game, Stormland.
You will play as an android gardener who has to take care of an alien world. And then the bad guys show up to wreck both your body and the environment you care about. Your task is to repair the body, upgrade it, and fight back.
“The big idea is that we’re presenting a world that changes over time and reveals a playground of movement and combat and loot — and then we turn you loose to explore this world freely with a set of android movement abilities,” Insomniac’s Chad Dezern said to Polygon. “You can fly above the slipstream, you can use a laser to make a ramp and then launch yourself off of that. You can vault yourself up cliffs, and then push off and glide back down, all the while controlling your descent with your outstretched hands.”
As a gardener, you will discover new islands, weapons, and creatures, and don’t forget about attacking enemy strongholds. The gameplay also revolves around scavenging equipment on the path to becoming a warrior.
Stormland is said to be a more serious approach to the world of VR releases, so Insomniac sees it as an evolution of the studio’s path.
“This is taking components from the open world structure and the gameplay systems we’ve made for games like Ratchet and Clank and Sunset Overdrive, and it’s marrying them to an evolved form of the VR mechanics that we’ve developed in Edge of Nowhere, Feral Rightsand The Unspoken,” Dezern meantioned.
You can find more details on the game here and there.