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Tonight’s State of Play gave us our first look at highly anticipated sequel Death Stranding 2, which confirmed not only the rumoured subtitle of On the Beach, but also confirmed the return of Norman Reedus’ Sam Porter Bridges, but also Fragile.
It looks like they won’t be the only returnees either – as Troy Baker’s Higgs is also back in this first trailer (with an incredible guitar-gun thing to boot) – but it looks like it’ll greatly expand where you’ll be exploring, with a much greater variety of environments on display than the previous game. And while BB also seems to be back – in a fashion – you’ll now have another companion in the form of a vampire marionette too.
Lots of wackiness in the trailer – so it seems that trademark Kojima oddity will be fully intact – and we’re in for quite a wild ride – with a new subtitle ‘Should we have connected?’. We also got to see Ellie Fannings as yet unnamed character – but the bad news is, that we won’t be seeing the game until 2025 at the earliest – and three years since DS2 was announced in December of 2022.
Director Hideo Kojima also turned up to confirm he’ll be working on a brand new ‘espionage action game’ with Sony after Death Stranding 2 is out of the door. He kept coy as to what it is – but evidently it seems to be based on Metal Gear Solid – but of course, Konami own that IP, so it’ll be its own thing. He also revealed it’ll be a ‘movie at the same time’ – as a sort of movie-game hybrid and teased more would be to come.
Until then, Death Stranding 2 is expected to launch on PlayStation 5 in 2025.
