The game is using CryEngine once again, and is being developed for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S. Directly building on the original game's concepts plus a huge increase in team size appears to have allowed Warhorse Studios to reach further than it ever has before.

What we saw in a short game-announcing presentation to media looked impressive in its scope and ambition.

Deliverance 2 is down for release later this year.Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Official Announce Trailer Watch on YouTube Still, given the new RPG's expanded budget, perhaps it'll grant me leeway to reinvent Henry as a mild-mannered travelling brewer who faints at the sight of skin. Of the approximately two female characters shown in the presentation, one is there to illustrate that you can seduce people, which is very much of a piece with the original game's handing you an 'Alpha Male' perk when you went to the brothel. I don't see much evidence that Deliverance 2 will turn out differently. 'We're presented with a world where men were still men, where peasants and women still knew their places in society, where wise lords and knights protected their people from barbaric hordes threatening a well-ordered nation from without, and whose foreign ethnicity is conveniently marked by language and costumes,' he observed. Back in 2018, Andreas Inderwildi wrote a piece breaking down the prejudices that shape Deliverance's supposedly neutral or documentary interpretation of medieval life. Little chores like that represent the more innocent and earnest side of an experience whose professions of historical realism appear as flawed as, well, professions of historical realism at large. The bits that entice me the most, building on my faded memories of the first game, are the opportunities to engage with a profession or trade such as herbalism - the video includes some moderately wholesome footage of a mortar and pestle. The presentation suggests that we'll have more control over plot outcomes in Deliverance 2 - as design and combat director Viktor Bocan comments in the announcement video, 'you can save the world or help punish its sins' - and there's talk of a more reactive social simulation in which, say, you can tell the locals to piss off when they ask why you're walking around blind-drunk with no clothes on. New weapons include crossbows and some early firearms but this absolutely isn't an FPS, though there's probably a diary series in trying to play it like one. There's an avowedly true-to-life melee combat system in which you can bong fools upside the noggin with a swordhilt, swat their shields aside with repeated blows, and you know, just generally kill them in physically plausible ways. You can steal things at the cost of gaining a bad reputation with townsfolk, who might then withhold opportunities from you. You can use violence to get your way or sweet talk people or sneak into their dwellings after dark. His best friend is Sir Hans, voiced by Luke Dale, a comedy fun-times wingman who says things like 'Let's hope this water isn't too cold - wouldn't want your pride and joy shrinking.' Top bantz!Īs for what you do as Henry, it all seems broadly in keeping with the first game's open world survival simulation. Played once again by Tom McKay, protagonist Henry has come a ways since Deliverance but he's still something of a rough-and-tumble nobody, who must prove himself to the realm's bluebloods. The world is overall twice as large as that of the original Deliverance, and the story features around five hours of cutscenes. While this is more of an urban tale, there's still countryside aplenty in the shape of a 'Bohemian Paradise' area where you can shoot/admire the CryEngine wildlife. The new plot centres on the doings of monarchs rather than the first game's relatively minor quarrelling nobles, and takes place in and around the grand and affluent city of Kuttenberg. Set in 1403, Deliverance 2 continues the story of former blacksmith Henry, whose quest for revenge saw him breaking into the world of knights and dynasties. Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Official Game Reveal Watch on YouTube

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