Dragon’s Dogma 2 release date leaked for March 2024
28.11.2023 - 18:01
/ thesixthaxis.com
/ Hideaki Itsuno
/ Yoshiaki Hirabayashi
Just ahead of the Dragon’s Dogma 2 showcase tonight, the release date for the long-awaited action role-playing game has been leaked by Steam.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 will be coming out on 22nd March 2024.
This will be fully confirmed by Capcom during the Dragon’s Dogma 2 presentation tonight, which will take place starting at 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm GMT. You can watch along here:
When announcing the stream, Capcom stated that it will show “brand new gameplay reveals in an info-packed 15 minute livestream, directly from director Hideaki Itsuno and producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi”. Now Director Itsuno has said that the showcase will also reveal the release date.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is being built using RE Engine, allowing for some very impressive visual details in both the world and characters. That world is going to be around four times the size of the map in the original game.
Something inherited from the original is that the role playing and combat is built around having a single controllable hero character – the Arisen – and then pawns to follow and support them to try and feel like a co-op game in some ways. You can have a party of up to four characters, with a main pawn and two more general support pawns by your side. They’re controlled by AI, but have been improved with better decision-making in battle and will be more helpful to guide and point things out while exploring. They’ll also high-five you.
The game is still an action RPG, so you’ll be getting stuck right into the action, with your vocation determining if that’s with swords or magicks – there will be new vocations in the game – but Dragon’s Dogma 2 has been enhanced with more realistic physics and interactivity. Attacking larger monsters, they’re more physically based, so attacking a leg can drop them to the floor with a bang, and they can attack a bridge that you’re stood on, which will then break up realistically. New monsters will include Medusa, which…. let’s just speculate you might want to avoid her gaze?
Two new characters will be integral to the game, as featured in the key art. Ulrika is a bow wielder that has a connection to the Arisen, while Nadina is a high priestess of the beastren, which appear for the first time as cat-like creatures. They’ll impact your options and fate through the game.
Not long to go now, with Dragon’s Dogma 2 arriving across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in just four months!