The Game Awards, the annual awards show that both celebrates the best of the year and teases what’s coming in the future, dropped the world premier of The game is an entirely new project by Naughty Dog, the makers of classic games like, and and takes the studio to a new sci-fi setting. follows a bounty hunter named Jordan A. Mun as she enters the orbit of a distant planet called Sempiria.
The trailer for dropped a lot of information on the setting and did some great world building in a four and a half minute span. With walls full of obsessive research on a group called the Five Aces, tables full of newspapers and magazines, and a fair amount of throwback product placement, is already full of Easter Eggs and hints towards the game’s plot for eagle-eyed viewers. is a game that seems to be wearing its influences on its sleeve, which makes for a nostalgic future full of anime, sleek spaceships, and Adidas.
Right off the bat, the trailer for begins with an unidentifiable language that’s translated to read, “” While this cryptic sentence is certainly ominous, it’salso too vague to know how its message will impact the game besides the religious implications that connect to the game’s title.
What makes this passage even more interesting is the year at the end, which states that this quote is from 1986. From the vibes of the trailer, with its synth wave music and charmingly clunky sci-fi technology, it’s clear that something happened to make a 1980s style stick around for thousands of years. While "" isn’t a real culture, its name does invoke Sumerians, the earliest known civilization on Earth who lived thousands of years ago. Perhaps the similar name lends to the idea that players will be discovering a lost civilization that was monumental to history in some way.
After introducing the ancient writings and an ominously red planet with a broken moon, the trailer pans across a table full of newspapers, magazines, and stray poker chips. Some of the visible magazines on the
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