As jam-packed stuffed with gaming information as Summer time Recreation Fest 2025 was, it was as much as Hideo Kojima to finish the weekend with a bang. Or, slightly, an explosion. At a presentation hosted by Geoff Keighley late Sunday night time, Hideo Kojima and some of his collaborators introduced a tiny style of Dying Stranding 2 to the pageant, which additionally occurred to incorporate the very first scenes of the sport.
In it, we get narration from Lea Seydoux’s Fragile explaining her love of porters touring by rain, solar, sleet, and hail to ship their packages, till one of many a number of new songs from French artpop artist Woodkid begins to construct up. It is harking back to the primary sport’s intro till you understand this is not the murky wasteland of the primary sport, however a desert, teeming with creatures the realms of the residing and useless. A type of new residing creatures occurs to be the wee child Lou, the stillborn bridge child our hero Sam was carrying round within the first sport, now an cute 11-month previous as a result of…effectively, look, lots occurred in these closing three chapters in DS1. Die-Hardman is president of America now. Whereas nonetheless carrying the cranium masks. We do not have time to unpack all that.
We get our first snippets of gameplay after, exhibiting off the superior terrain physics at work, with a minor earthquake, a colony of chiral tarantulas, and a dynamic music system Kojima and Woodkid appear particularly happy with. It is genuinely spectacular, and it will not make the look ahead to the sport’s launch on till June 26 any simpler. You’ll be able to pre-order the sport right here.
