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Death Stranding release date revealed as Hideo Kojima drops new trailer for mysterious PlayStation exclusive
DEATH STRANDING, the mysterious PlayStation 4 exclusive coming from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, is very nearly ready for prime time.
The release date and pre-order bonuses for the game have been revealed and a new trailer has finally shown us what playing the game will be like.
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Death Stranding has been described as a sci-fi action game with online multiplayer elements.
The story centres around Sam Bridges (played by Walking Dead favourite Norman Reedus) "carrying the remnants of our future" in a "world transformed by the Death Stranding".
A new trailer for the game was released this afternoon after a mysterious live stream It's coming out on November 8, as earlier leaks had suggested.
The trailer sees Bridges being begged to "make America whole again" by an apparently terminally-ill female US President lying on a hospital bed in the Oval Office.
Bridges refuses, saying "America is finished."
The trailer then shows gameplay featuring plenty of combat, and Bridges driving across various landscapes.
The game jumps from what look to be World War 1 trenches to Vietnam's jungles, with heavy supernatural overtones.
Death Stranding is listed as a purely single-player experience but according to Hideo Kojima, speaking at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, it's about "connection".
"You're very alone, there’s solitude, but you're trying to connect. The story and the gameplay, the key word is 'connection.'
"You’re connecting the game, and everyone is playing it together, and you’ll be connected, everyone will be connected together as well. I can’t say anything because Sony will be very unhappy. I don’t want to be disconnected from Sony," he explained cryptically.
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But that's just scratching the surface of the mysterious title, described on the PlayStation store as "a journey to reunite the shattered world".
And that it features Lindsay Wagner, Léa Seydoux, Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon from The Walking Dead), Oscar-winning The Shape of Water Director Guillermo Del Toro, and Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen.
The store page also revealed some garish golden items you can get if you pre-order the game.
While these may not be to everyone's taste, they do hint at some pretty serious customisation options.
Death Stranding TGS trailer reveals new characters and building-sized beasts
WHO IS HIDEO KOJIMA?
HIDEO KOJIMA is one of the best-known 'auteurs' of video games.
The 55-year-old Japanese developer is famous for the huge and complex Metal Gear Solid games, which he worked on from the mid 1980s up until 2015's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
These take many hours to play through, feature complex and often confusing stories that envelop everything from melodrama to serious consideration of geopolitics.
As well as being known for exceptionally long but high-quality cut scenes, his games are uniquely atmospheric and have pioneered stealth-action mechanics.
He left Metal Gear publisher Konami in 2015, and took his studio Kojima Productions independent.
It was also revealed that his first game would be a PS4 exclusive - and that game was later revealed to be Death Stranding.
While the E3 trailer last year introduced a few characters and showed lots of different environments Sam will be travelling through, the Tokyo Game Show trailer showed off some more intense action.
A skull-faced terrorist, a building-sized Lovecraftesque dog-creature and oily human-like figures that looked like lost souls reaching out of the River Styx certainly hinted at some deep strangeness to come.
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Death Stranding is one of several high-profile PS4 exclusive games expected for the console before the PlayStation 5 comes out.
The Last of Us Part 2 and Ghost of Tsushima are the other big ones, but neither has a release date yet.
Sony has revealed the first details of its new console, which is expected in 2020 along with the Xbox 2.
Some experts have suggested that the rise of video-game streaming mean they could well be the last games consoles you ever need to buy.
Death Stranding E3 trailer shows Norman Reedus as Sam Bridges exploring the game's strange world
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