Updated:

Jan 25, 2023 8:57 pm

Posted:

Jan 25, 2023 8:27 pm

Tango Gameworks' adjacent crippled is Hi-Fi Rush, a bushed escapade crippled nether improvement exclusively for the Xbox Series X|S, and it's coming retired tonight.

Announced during the Xbox Developer_Direct showcase, the trailer revealed a bombastic comic-like artstyle, archetypal tunes and rhythm-based question and combat. Tango Gameworks is releasing the game, including a Game Pass release, contiguous - with it planned to deed integer storefronts a fewer hours aft the showcase ends.

Hi-Fi Rush's rhythm-based gameplay impacts each facet of its world. Playing arsenic wannabe rockstar Chai, you're the unfortunate of a weird firm experimentation that's near you capable to consciousness the bushed of the satellite to the bushed of the game's soundtrack. So everything: your attacks, force attacks, obstacles, cutscenes, everything occurs to the bushed of the music.

But Tango reassures this is not a punishing bushed game. You tin jump, dodge, parry, and onslaught utilizing immoderate buttons and they volition automatically sync up to the bushed of the euphony - but if you negociate to support bushed correctly, you'll bash much harm oregon physique up almighty combos. Chai's companion 808, a small robot cat, follows on and offers a airy ocular assistance to assistance players support rhythm, and much accessibility options are disposable too.

While Hi-Fi Rush has its ain archetypal soundtrack, it besides has licensed euphony for brag battles from artists similar Nine Inch Nails, The Black Keys, The Prodigy, The Joy Formidable, Number Girl, Wolfgang Gartner, and Zwan.

A Japanese workplace best-known for The Evil Within, Tango Gameworks was portion of Xbox's 2021 acquisition of Zenimax. Its astir caller merchandise is Ghostwire: Tokyo, which we praised for the mode it brought Japanese civilization and mythology to life.

Hi-Fi Rush was portion of a showcase that besides included Minecraft Legends and more. You tin find everything other revealed during today's Xbox Developer-Direct close here.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a quality newsman for IGN. You tin find her connected Twitter @duckvalentine.