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Sink deep into the next chapter of Senua’s story with this showcase of cinematic immersion, beautifully realized visuals and encapsulating sound from the team at Ninja Theory. Captured on Xbox Series X.
Best viewed wearing headphones.
With Senua's Saga: Hellblade II we want to suspend your disbelief and immerse you in Senua's world and story. In this development diary we show you how we're working to achieve this through our use of performance capture, and take you behind the scenes of our trailer from the Xbox Games Showcase.
Captain Kinopio wrote:I thought the trailer for this at the showcase was pretty rubbish. I'm surprised they didn't show gameplay at the extended showcase today.
In-game cinematics and gameplay captured by Ninja Theory on Xbox Series X, with music by Heilung.
The sequel to the award winning Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, sees Senua return in a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. Intent on saving those who have fallen victim to the horrors of tyranny, Senua faces a battle of overcoming the darkness within and without.
Trailer best experienced with headphones.
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0:00:48 News 01: The Game Awards - Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
0:08:51 OD
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0:39:13 Black Myth: Wukong, Persona 3 Reload, Metaphor Refantazio, Skull and Bones
0:51:58 News 02: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora released!
1:01:58 Supporter Q1: How do you pixel count games with upsampling?
1:09:06 Supporter Q2: Do modern games avoid physics-based gameplay because of processing constraints or game design?
1:12:19 Supporter Q3: Does the addition of path tracing to Call of Duty's lobbies suggest a wider implementation later on?
1:16:07 Supporter Q4: Should the console makers release jailbreak patches for older consoles?
1:19:38 Supporter Q5: Should GPU manufacturers introduce features from Special K into their drivers?
1:24:25 Supporter Q6: Can you pixel count The Game Awards?
The Xbox Games Showcase which aired live back in June 2023, gave out a release window for Hellblade 2 after a substantial period of wait, but now, sources close to me have revealed that the game has a set release date of May 21, 2024. Due to the matter of the informant's anonymity, I cannot disclose the source's origin, but the information is reliable enough to be talked about ahead of time.
Experience a Brutal Journey of Cinematic Immersion in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II on May 21
Hello, Dom here, Studio Head at Ninja Theory. As I write this, we are now in the final few months of development on Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, preparing for our launch Day One on Xbox Game Pass and across Xbox Series X|S, Windows and Steam on May 21. It was a pleasure to give you all a deeper insight into Senua’s next journey, our studio and our talented team in Developer Direct.
Since the release of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Ninja Theory has transitioned from being an independent team to one that sits within Xbox Game Studios. Although this has seen change for Ninja Theory, particularly in terms of the support now available to us for striving towards our ambitions, what has not changed is our passion and commitment to our studio mission – to craft life-changing art with game changing tech.
This might sound like a lofty mission, but it is something we are proud to have achieved before in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice – a game built in a space we called ‘Independent AAA’, where we worked with the creative spirit and freedom of independent development but strove for the types of high-end production values often only associated with AAA games. We also took advantage of the freedom that digital-only distribution offered us to create a game of the length that fit perfectly with our intended experience but could be sold at a lower price to reflect the shorter length of our story. This framework allowed us to focus on the things we really care about – taking our fans on an unforgettable journey into Senua’s unique world.
In Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, our approach is the same. Although we are no longer an independent studio, our creative spirit has in fact been emboldened by our joining of Xbox Game Studios, and in this new chapter of Senua’s life we have been able to push our production values way beyond what we were able to achieve previously. So, my message to players is that if you loved Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, or if you enjoy narrative-led experiences of cinematic immersion, we are building Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II for you.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II will be a game crafted from the heart – a game similar in length to the first Hellblade, with a focused narrative, and sold digital-only at a price of $49.99 USD. And you can once again expect to join Senua in understanding her world through perception puzzles led by her experiences of psychosis, in brutal and visceral combat and in traversal gameplay, this time across the harsh but beautiful landscapes of 10th Century Iceland. Crucially, all these elements are intertwined in a unique visual and audio experience, where everything is in service of Senua’s story. So, you can expect more of the same, but this time with the support to push our ambitions for immersion, fidelity and richness far further than before.
I’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all our fans across the world. Your well wishes and support is what drives us on. In Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II we want to make it as easy as possible for you all to enjoy Senua’s journey and so we have increased the breadth of our localization to 26 subtitled languages – including Arabic, Ukrainian and, of course, the language of the land of our journey: Icelandic!
Know that here at Ninja Theory, our partners and collaborators across music, mental health, art and technology are working hard to bring you, once again, a special experience. We look forward to you joining Senua’s new journey on May 21.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is available to pre-install on Xbox Game Pass and wishlist on Steam now.
Robbo-92 wrote:Glad we've finally got a release date for it, I do hope to replay the first one now its had its current gen patch and try it with my headphones rather than sound bar, they seem to really rave about using headphones instead so think it'll be worth trying at least.
Wedgie wrote:Will this run on the X Box S?