CI Games reveal new Lords Of The Fallen, Sniper Ghost Warrior and a “major new action-RPG”
Hexworks and CI Games are working on a sequel to 2023 action-RPG Lords Of The Fallen, itself a sequel to 2014 action-RPG Lords Of The Fallen. It's slated to launch in 2026. Will the new Lords Of The Fallen also be called Lords Of The Fallen? Will it build on the exciting innovations of Lords Of The Fallen, or will it seek to recapture the nostalgic charms of Lords Of The Fallen? Perhaps in ten years time we'll do a list feature, "Lords Of The Fallen Games Ranked", with just one entry. I'm pretty sure that in 10 years time, generative AI plagiarism will have rendered everything interchangeable anyway.
The new Lords Of The Fallen – again, not to be confused with Lords Of The Fallen – is currently called Project 3. It appears on a new CI Games strategy report, spotted by Insider Gaming. It’ll run on Unreal Engine 5 and feature such “gameplay improvements” as “increased game mode optionality, more commercial art style and narrative, elevated production values”, which I would roughly translate as “larger selection of modes, an art style and narrative that will appeal to more players, and an overall posher look and feel with, I don’t know, catchier menu fonts and suchlike”. It’ll have a single player campaign with full “shared-progression” co-op, and we can expect a proper announcement in 2025. Oh, and Epic have ponied up to make it exclusive to Epic Games Store on PC. Sad trombone!
Resident RPS Soulsliker Edders wasn’t especially sold on Lords Of The Fallen, declaring that “realm-hopping magic can't keep this Soulslike from getting on your nerves”, but he did rate it higher than Lords Of The Fallen, which Rich Stanton summarised as “the game so average it doesn't want you to play”. CI Games reckon the series has plenty of juice, however – in the report, they describe it as one of “two major evergreen franchises”, adding that the 2023 sequel accounted for 72 percent of company revenue in the first half of 2024.
CI’s other “major evergreen franchise” is camo-faced
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