EA's upcoming game could let players explore Wakanda in a way no other Marvel game has. Very little has been revealed surrounding the title since its announcement in July 2023 other than the fact it is being developed by a new AAA development studio based in Seattle, Cliffhanger Games, which consists of a team of,,, and veterans.
More Games Should Let You Climb Giant Creatures
27.03.2024 - 14:16 / ign.com / Peter Jackson
I’ll never climb a 20-foot ogre in real life. That’s something I’ve had to contend with for a while but now, in Dragon’s Dogma 2, I can do just that. It’s a thrill not limited to ogres but a whole host of mythical monsters found inside Capcom’s latest. Griffins, golems, chimeras… I’ve scaled the lot. Each one I ascended really got me thinking that more games should let you climb giant creatures. It’s a feature that’s not only an incredibly tangible way of conveying that feeling of taking down a fearsome beast, but also cleverly transforms towering threats into walking puzzles that require dexterity, smarts, and of course, brute strength to take down. It really is something other action games should look to replicate.
Of course, Dragon’s Dogma 2 isn’t the first of its kind in this regard. Some of my formative video game memories were created when clambering up the skyscraper-like giants at the centre of Team Ico’s Shadow of the Colossus. To say that taking down these colossi was enjoyable would perhaps be a stretch given the mournful tone that weaves through its world like the swirling black souls that leave their bodies, but it was a sense of pure spectacle I hadn’t seen before, and arguably haven’t since – until one late game encounter in Dragon’s Dogma 2, which has you scale a colossus of its own.
Fumito Ueda’s PS2 classic conjures images of the films I grew up on, ranging from the wonderfully sculpted creations of Ray Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, to scenes from more modern masterpieces like Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, such as when Legolas slides down the trunk of a hulking Oliphaunt. Scale can be used to stunning effect in cinema to place our heroes in danger, but games can take this one step further, by actually placing you on the furry backs of your foes and tasking you with their demise.
It’s a sensation Shadow of the Colossus captured perfectly, with each mammoth encounter being its own puzzle across multiple stages – working out how to get onto the beast, and then locating its weak points to deal a devastating, plunging stab. Dragon’s Dogma 2 is certainly more of an action-focused game than Team Ico’s and so allows for much more flexibility in the way you deal with its world’s threats. DD2’s creatures’ weak spots are less heavily signposted than Colossus’ glowing sigils, but make just as much logical sense. The single searching eye of a Cyclops will endure critical pain from any arrow or spell that strikes it, just as slicing off one of a Chimera’s three heads will leave it without some of its elemental attacks and a chunk of its health bar.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 isn’t the first game to let you hack pieces of monsters off, though, and it isn’t even
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