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‘gen ATLAS’ has finally been announced, and it really reminds me of a Sandlot game.<\/p>\n
Epic Games<\/p>\n
Following the extremely enigmatic reveal a few years ago of gen Design\u2019s new game, it\u2019s finally here and is called gen ATLAS<\/a>.<\/p>\n Published by Epic Games, the game is also using Unreal Engine, which should really help streamline the game\u2019s development.<\/p>\n This is because games like The Last Guardian<\/a> had a pretty labored development cycle<\/a> due to the technical issues with the game\u2019s toolset, among many other things.<\/p>\n As for this new game, it\u2019s looking very interesting and definitely reminds me of older Sandlot<\/a> games such as Gigantic Drive<\/a> on the PlayStation 2.<\/p>\n Released outside of Japan as Robotic Alchemic Drive, the game had you control a huge and heavy mecha from the point of view of a human, either on the ground or on the mecha themselves.<\/p>\n The big and heavy fights in the new trailer for gen ATLAS (shown below) really remind me of fighting various large enemies in Gigantic Drive.<\/p>\n The functionality of the human on the ground and the mecha themselves do also look more involved, though. With obviously new puzzle mechanics and shooting sections.<\/p>\n I also like the fact that your mecha\u2019s \u201chead\u201d is sort of the interchangeable part you can use on other giant mecha.<\/p>\n Naturally, this type of huge character is not new for Fumito Ueda<\/a>, as games like Shadow of the Colossus<\/a> had you clamber over giants to take them down.<\/p>\n The other point worth mentioning is that it\u2019s likely that the mecha design may be being handled by none other than IZMOJUKI<\/a>. Known for his industrial mecha designs, his approach would fit wonderfully with this game\u2019s setting, and back when the game was revealed, he did post about it on his X account<\/a>.<\/p>\n In any case, I am just glad that there\u2019s another Fumito Ueda game on the way, as they always end up being rather magical experiences.<\/p>\n Follow me on X<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>. I also manage Mecha Damashii<\/a> and am currently writing regular columns in Japanese about mecha games and mecha anime for both Game*Spark<\/a> and Automaton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘gen ATLAS’ has finally been announced, and it really reminds me of a Sandlot game. Epic Games Following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,61999,348383,348378,348377,348381,348380,14193,348382,105,348379,3975],"class_list":["post-718401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-epic","tag-fumito-ueda","tag-gen-atlas","tag-gen-design","tag-gigantic-drive","tag-izmojuki","tag-mecha","tag-sandlot","tag-technology","tag-unreal","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}