Summer Game Fest light on game reveals, heavy on space horror
Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest showcase kicked off a weekend of video game reveals, and it seems organizers this year chose to (or had to) prioritize new footage of already-announced titles, with a smattering of new game reveals that piqued audience interest.
The most notable announcement of the showcase was apparently meant to be news of The Last of Us Part I: a ground-up remake of The Last of Us for PlayStation 5 and PC. Sony's website leaked that announcement before the show even started.
There was one rather neat trend that made itself manifest in the early minutes of the show, and that was a large number of games jumping in on the space horror genre. The Callisto Protocol, Aliens: Dark Descent, Fort Solis, and Routine (which was first announced a decade ago!) all showcased the horror of creepy creatures in tight metal corridors.
The biggest surprise turned out to be Goat Simulator 3, which debuted with a riff on the original Dead Island trailer. And that isn't a typo. The sequel to Goat Simulator is Goat Simulator 3, not Goat Simulator 2. Goat Simulator 2 will never be.
Summer Game Fest kicked off with a look at Street Fighter 6, before spending most of its time with The Callisto Protocol and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. We did also see another major motion picture tie-in debut with Aliens: Dark Descent.
Sad Cat Studios' Replaced was meant to get a new trailer, but since the team has been struggling with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, they weren't able to get anything made in time.
The full list of titles shown included:
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