Steelrising Gameplay Trailer Shows Dark Souls-Style Combat in Major Locations Around Paris

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The latest project from Spiders, the development team behind the somewhat underrated Western RPG Greedfall, Steelrising looks to be a weird combination ofNier: Automata, Dark Souls, and high school history lesson that’s gone more than a little off the rails. Marrying steampunk mech combat with surprisingly detailed renderings of real Parisian locations, Steelrisinglooks to provide an interesting new perspective on the very popular soulslike genre, and a new trailer showcases just how historically accurate some of the game’s environments are going to be.

One of the many trailers that premiered during Gamescom 2022, the minute-long sneak peek juxtaposes some very authentic replications of famous places such as the Louvre and the Bastille with some incredibly fantastical dueling robots. The dissonance between these two elements may seem jarring at first, but there’s a certain genius in grounding such an outlandish premise in reality, and it arguably grants Steelrising a leg up in a gaming niche that’s rapidly becoming overpopulated.

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Though franchises such as BioShock and Fallout are famed for their alternate histories, soulslike games tend to lean into their fantasy elements and establish worlds and lore far removed from reality. FromSoftware’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice may have dabbled in the art of melding real history with high fantasy, but, aside from some very vague connections, the Japanese province of Ashina may as well have been Lordan or Lothric. Coming up against the genuine historical figure King Louis XVI in Steelrising may come as a genuine shock after fighting through hordes of totally unreal mechanical menaces, and battling bosses in the Luxembourg