Microsoft has just confirmed that Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 will be using Unreal Engine 5. This game was originally meant to take full advantage of Unreal Engine 4. However, and after Epic revealing its latest version, Ninja Theory decided to port the game to Unreal Engine 5.
As Microsoft stated:
“The power of Xbox Series X was first demonstrated with the unveiling of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. The team will be building the game on Unreal 5 and leveraging the power of Xbox Series X to bring the Hellblade franchise to levels never before seen. The footage shown was captured in-engine and reflects the power of Xbox Series X available to developers to deliver new universes, experiences and games in ways you have never imagined.”
Do note that this footage was from the Unreal Engine 4 build of the game. As such, we don’t know what technological and graphical advancements Unreal Engine 5 will bring to this particular game. We also don’t know whether Ninja Theory will take full advantage of the Nanite and Lumen techs.
Microsoft plans to reveal the first-party games for Xbox Series X in July 2020. From what we know so far, these games will be also coming to the PC. Thus, PC gamers will find Microsoft’s upcoming event quite interesting to say the least.
I’ve embedded below the original/announcement trailer for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II. The LOD transitions in this particular clip is phenomenal, so here is hoping that the final game will come close to it.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
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Waiting for Sony fantards to brag about their Jesus SSD that is supposed to be the only one that can run UE5, launch rockets and even develop games without devs…
LOL, especially at the last part.
LOL DEVELOP GAMES WITHOUT DEVS. Lmaoooooo you made my day my god. This has to be the funniest sht i’ve read on dsog ever.
Cheers
There’s tons of them in gematsu…
Hum, you don’t often read comments on this site i guess, it’s just that most of them disappeared since the Horizon port announcement
:))
Dreams is already doing that though :p
Best part – this game will be exclusive to PC (Steam, Game Pass) and Xbox
Digital Foundry will drop on all of them next year
That’s cool, developers getting right to it in utilizing this engine, hopefully at least some of the new tech gets turned on.
Let’s see how close they get to that PS5 demo.
Hey thats pretty good news. I loved the first game and even now still looks insane so I cant wait to see how good this game looks along with how smooth the gameplay should be.
A surprise announcement just before PS5 event.
epic store exclusive? if yes I will take the game on torrent 😉
epic store exclusive? if yes I will take the game on torrent 😉
This will be in MS store for sure and may hit steam since MS released Halo: The Master Chief Collection recently. So, no way it will be an epic store exclusive.
This in Microsoft game – no single MS game was ever on Epic Store, all new games are on Steam and Windows Store (Game Pass)
state of decay 2 is on epic game store
That is a surprise. Is this version support cross platform multiplayer like versions on Steam and Xbox?
I see logo of Xbox Live (cross play) only on Steam page. On EPIC page there are no info about Xbox Live. Maybe EPIC version is limited to single player?
i dont know.
Lol just because it developed in Unreal Engine, you assume it will be Epic Store exclusive?
all games come to steam eventually, no one is saying no to more money.
New mega unoptmised unreal crap…. Here we go again…
Man this just makes me even more excited. Hellblade 1 was really good, can’t wait to see what they come up with for 2 especially with this tech.
Lumen alone is going to make a massive difference in interactability.
what do you mean by good? i don’t hesitate to skip story parts and cutscenes in video games, am i going to like it?
I liked it aswell! This trailer is just so good (for me) i can’t wait to see where the second game will be taking us.
This game is going to be mindblowingly beautiful!!! I am pumped!
It’s because Unreal5 is more optimized for AMD than Unreal4 is. Pretty simple.
All new MS games are on Steam because it support Xbox Live (cross-play games). Game will be on both platforms – PC and Xbox just like every MS game
– every single MS game in last 3 years are released on PC
– every single MS game in last 2 years are in Game Pass on day 1
– every single MS game ln last 1 year is on Steam
Halo Infinite and Forza Motorsport 8 will be day 1 on PC with Game Pass or Steam if you don’t like Game Pass. With full support of Xbox Live (cross-play between PC and Xbox)
Not sure that steam supports crossplay for all the MS games. « Deep Rock Galactic » being one game where you HAVE to play the game with MS store otherwise crossplay won’t work with Xbox.
Go back to WCCTECH ms $hill
sack of shet movie wannabe game.
nice music though.
In game engine rendered on a 2080 ti
This game going to be hard Feminist trash, Liberal Woke Propaganda.
Citation needed
Good decision. UE4 barely works in the first place but let’s upgrade to 5 which is completely untested and undocumented for developers outside of Epic. Hellblade is very much the only UE4 game on t he market that didn’t have extreme performance issues so I trust Ninja Theory I guess. It was also easily the most ridiculously good looking game in the past several years, too.