Glen Schofield, the director of Call Of Duty: WWII and govt producer of Dead Space, has joined PUBG Corp to guide an “original narrative experience” set on this planet of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. The builders right this moment introduced Schofield as CEO of their new studio, Striking Distance. I’m, as a number one authority on the narrative of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, fascinated to see what the brand new staff deliver to this game about stag & hen weekends turned lethal. Will Striking Distance go along with a take impressed by comedy motion pictures like The Hangover, barely extra fantastical comedy motion pictures similar to The Hangover Part II, or gritty comedy motion pictures like The Hangover Part III? I can hardly wait.
The story of Plunkbat, everyone knows, is about teams of oldsters on stag and hen weekends who get black-out drunk, get up at the back of an aeroplane sporting a parachute, then sorta simply associate with it. They’ve come for a weekend of paintballing, banter, antics, and hanging round the hotel belting out Chelsea Dagger, and that’s what they’re going to get. If 99 persons are hospitalised alongside the way in which then properly, that solely makes the weekend extra epic.
They sing! They shout “Oi oiiiii!” over microphone whereas attempting to run individuals over! They chug weird energy drinks! They pull pranks! They climb over partitions and onto buildings! They shoot individuals within the face then rob their unconscious our bodies! They’re dressed weirdly as a result of they needed to prepare in thirty seconds earlier than the taxi left to start out the pub crawl! They have boat accidents! They have jetski accidents! They have moped accidents! They usually have weekends remembered primarily by means of portrait-mode cellphone movies.
That, absolutely, is the story Schofield and Striking Distance will attempt to seize. Certainly no pish about Soviet analysis tasks and rebellions and edgy d00dz sporting hooded leather-based coats coated in buckles.
“As a creative, the freedom to explore the PUBG universe has me excited about the possibilities, which I view as beyond the battle royale genre,” Schofield teased in right this moment’s announcement.
“Throughout my career, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to make some remarkable games that tell incredible stories, and each of them has meant something special to me,” he stated. “But now, those learnings will help me build a AAA team that can explore new designs and concepts at Striking Distance.”
Ooh how mysterious! And that’s about all they should say about this new… game? It’s absolutely a standalone game.
Striking Distance are based mostly in San Ramon, California, and currently hiring. Plunkboss Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene dropped off the Plunkteam earlier this 12 months to lead a new R&D team engaged on mysterious issues. So many mysteries. So a lot banter.
