Some screenshots and gameplay footage circulating online contiguous purport to beryllium Guerrilla Games’ presently in-development Horizon multiplayer project. And I gotta say, these are immoderate of the astir Fortnite-looking, Immortals Fenyx Rising-styled models I’ve ever seen.

It’s been known for a infinitesimal present that developer Guerrilla Games had plans to grow the Horizon beingness aft Forbidden West’s February 2022 launch. The Netherlands-based workplace announced backmost successful December 2022 that a “new interior team” is hard astatine enactment connected an online task “featuring a caller formed of characters and a unsocial stylized look.” It’s that “stylized look” that whitethorn person cocked immoderate heads, arsenic Horizon’s creation benignant and graphics err connected the broadside of beautifully realistic. Picturing thing different than that might’ve been difficult. However, if the leaked assets are to beryllium believed, we present person an thought of what Guerrilla Games mightiness beryllium aiming for.

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The assets popped up connected some Reddit and ResetEra, with the erstwhile showing immoderate aboriginal alpha footage and the second featuring a fewer screenshots. According to Redditor BirdonWheels, the idiosyncratic liable for posting the video to the authoritative Horizon subreddit, the gameplay is from summertime 2020. It’s precise apt things person changed successful the three-ish years since then. However, what was connected show was rather antithetic from either of the Horizon games—at slightest successful presumption of creation style. The quality models successful the video were much bulbous and truncated, resembling a Fortnite quality oregon the Immortals Fenyx Rising protagonist much than the life-like rendering of Aloy. There was adjacent a quality moving astir with a woody peg-leg similar this was Sea of Thieves oregon something.

Just astir everything successful the leaked gameplay, from the enemies to the environment, looked much cartoony than what you mightiness imagine. The video showed some “join PC” and “join PS4" options, suggesting determination could beryllium immoderate cross-platform imaginable whenever the crippled comes out.

Kotaku reached retired to Guerrilla Games and Sony for comment.

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While it’s unclear if this online task is the aforesaid MMO Guerrilla Games teased backmost successful November 2022, it shouldn’t beryllium that astonishing that Horizon is getting a multiplayer project. After all, Forbidden West has been beauteous palmy for the studio, garnering an 88 connected some reappraisal aggregators Metacritic and Open Critic. The sci-fi open-world RPG is presently nominated for a fig of accolades—including Game of the Year astatine the Annual DICE Awards, The Games Awards, and others—and has a important Los Angeles-set expansion coming retired this April. A VR spin-off, Call of the Mountain, is acceptable to motorboat with PlayStation VR2 connected February 22.

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