Three years after City Interactive first muttered a couple of sequel to Lords Of The Fallen, 2014’s Souls-tinged action-RPG, they’re lastly going forward with it. Today they introduced they’ve drafted Defiant Studios, a brand new studio co-founded by the director of Just Cause 3, to make Lords Of The Fallen 2. Lords creators Deck13 parted methods with CI after the primary sport, see, happening to proceed their concepts in The Surge (learn our Brendy’s review for extra on that). CI don’t say a lot of something in regards to the sequel, so it’s clearly nonetheless early days, however hey, it’s formally on. Okay then.
Defiant was based in 2016 by of us together with Roland Lesterlin, the director of Just Cause 3, and David Grijns, the previous normal supervisor of JC3 devs Avalanche Studios New York. They’ve not launched any video games as their very own studio but. CI mentioned in at this time’s announcement that they fielded pitches from quite a few studios, and settled on Defiant “because we were impressed with their game concept, production expertise, and the pedigree of their developers.”
And that’s about it, actually. CI say they’re “dedicated to delivering a quality second title for fans of the IP” however don’t have anything to indicate of the sport. Early days. I’ve heard vaguer bulletins throughout E3 season, although.
The first sport was so-so, and its story and world bland, however I suppose the identify is considerably recognized? Rich Stanton wrote in our Lords Of The Fallen evaluate:
“It all adds up to a combat system that’s great in theory but in reality feels terribly average. This superficiality extends across LotF. While the visuals are impressive technically, for example, it would be remiss of me not to point out that the aesthetic stinks. This is generic fantasy with a heavy dash of Diablo III, all smoking red eyes and ridiculous shoulderpads, and its pus-monsters and demon-knights and fat fire-throwers just lack any subtlety in their design.”
Not the very best.
Lords Of The Fallen 2 was as soon as been slated for 2017. And now? It’s a secret.
As for the studio who created Lords Of The Fallen within the first place, Deck13, they’re at present engaged on The Surge 2. They count on to launch it in 2019.
