Everything you need to know about Elden Ring: New trailer, release date, and story

(Pocket-lint) - When FromSoftware announces a game, you tin stake your beingness radical wage attention. Its agelong drawstring of hits, starting with Demon's Souls (recently remastered successful fantabulous style), moving done the Dark Souls saga, Bloodborne and Sekiro, has earned it 1 heck of a reputation.

If you instrumentality that game-making prowess and adhd successful the plotting of George R. R. Martin, the writer down Game of Thrones, you've got a earnestly enticing proposition - and that's conscionable what we're looking astatine with Elden Ring. Find retired everything you request to know, below.

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Elden Ring trailer and merchandise date

Elden Ring was announced with a bully and splashy trailer, embedded below, astatine E3 successful 2019, and past we were treated to virtually years of vigor silence, with perfectly nary quality to talk of. The trailer had perfectly loads to spell connected successful presumption of themes and ideas, but it was inactive a beauteous pugnacious time.

Now that's each changed - 2021's Summer Games Fest unrecorded kickoff watercourse ended with a bang, debuting an extended caller trailer, which you tin presumption above, afloat of reveals and adjacent glimpses of gameplay. Plus, we got an all-important merchandise day reveal: January 21 2022.

Elden Ring platforms

FromSoftware has a chequered past erstwhile it comes to releasing its games connected antithetic platforms - immoderate of them, similar Demon's Souls successful some incarnations and Bloodborne person been PlayStation exclusives. 

That doesn't look to beryllium the lawsuit this clip - we present cognize that the crippled volition travel retired connected each level you could anticipation for, including PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. Plus, for the archetypal clip for FromSoftware, PC players volition get a day-and-date motorboat arsenic well.

However, astatine the infinitesimal it looks similar owners of next-gen consoles won't needfully beryllium capable to bargain circumstantial versions for their caller hardware - instead, buying the PS4 oregon Xbox One mentation of Elden Ring volition nett you a escaped upgrade to the next-gen mentation arsenic well. It's a strategy that's worked good for plentifulness of different titles, aft all.

Elden Ring story

Here's wherever things get truly juicy - George R. R. Martin has co-created this acheronian phantasy satellite on with Hidetaka Miyazaki, the mastermind down the Souls series. That's an astonishing team-up, and besides brings unneurotic 2 implicit specialists successful bleak surprises.

The trailers overgarment a country of a shattered world, and the game's official website sheds a spot much light. Elden Ring is acceptable successful the Lands Between, which person been thrust into struggle by the shattering of the Elden Ring, which seemingly protects the Erdtree (that immense shining histrion successful the inheritance of the trailer, we're guessing).

With shards of the Elden Ring having been seized by assorted nasty bosses, we're reasoning you'll beryllium tasked with defeating them successful crook and reclaiming those pieces to recreate the ringing - that sounds similar a reasonably doable FromSoftware benignant of structure.

Elden Ring gameplay

Elden Ring looks similar a large measurement for FromSoftware - aggregate sources including Phil Spencer from Xbox person discussed it being the studio's biggest and astir ambitious crippled yet. Part of that appears to beryllium related to a wider gameplay scope, though Miyazaki has said successful interviews helium thinks it volition instrumentality players astir 30 hours to complete, which isn't excessively intimidating.

We inactive expect to spot loads of challenging combat encounters, of course, and the crippled is again a third-person enactment RPG, but there's going to beryllium a batch much options for players. For 1 thing, we present cognize that magic volition beryllium a large portion of the satellite - it's large successful the Souls games, too, but sometimes feels much similar an summation than a halfway gameplay tenet.

Similarly, the caller footage contains loads of gameplay connected horseback, confirming a caller mode to get astir a bigger unfastened world, a archetypal for FromSoftware. That satellite volition beryllium traversable connected your ain oregon with others done online multiplayer, and it each sounds a small little opaque than multiplayer successful different FromSoftware games. 

According to a large interrogation with Miyazaki from IGN, determination volition beryllium six large areas, overmuch similar a Zelda game's dungeons, for players to research disconnected the main representation - these tin beryllium tackled successful immoderate order. The main hub satellite volition person a representation for guidance, but these dungeons won't.

That open-world format is besides large news, of course, and volition beryllium a large alteration for FromSoftware. However, Miyazaki has confirmed they're not going all-out to imitate thing similar The Witcher 3 - determination won't beryllium towns afloat of NPCs to speech to oregon get quests from. Rather the unfastened satellite volition beryllium disposable to seamlessly research arsenic what we anticipation volition beryllium similar a tied-together acceptable of FromSoftware's already expansive levels. 

In mid-October 2021 we got different spot of absorbing gameplay footage - a leak of astir 30 seconds, which isn't precise glamourous but does amusement the subordinate quality moving astir and jumping successful an open-world area.

(Leaked) Elden Ring Leaked Gameplay Footage  pic.twitter.com/6wfb1mjM4y

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Multiplayer has been elaborate a small arsenic good - you'll beryllium capable to co-op each of Elden Ring with up to 3 friends, though playing successful co-op volition halt you being capable to thrust your horse, interestingly. That mightiness marque it much of a go-to for dungeons, alternatively than exploration.

As successful the Souls games, determination volition beryllium quality customisation, too, with loads of combat options to suit antithetic playstyles. Hopefully, the crippled tin instrumentality a leafage from the remake of Demon's Souls, and fto america make radical who don't look similar potatoes - ever a bonus!

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Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 4 March 2021.