A complex story like that of The Lords of the Fallen, the successor to 2014’s Lords of the Fallen, which CI Games took a long time to get under way due to serious economic complications in 2018 and the need to find a studio to replace Deck13, which left to join the Focus family. Dissatisfied with the progress of Defiant Studios, which saw the project withdrawn in 2019, CI Games finally founded its own studio a year later, HexWorks, to tackle the creation of this new action-RPG under the direct influence of FromSoftware. And for a studio founded in 2020 under the tutelage of such a modest publisher as CI Games, The Lords of the Fallen seems to express quite surprising artistic and technical qualities.
Let’s hope we won’t fall
Let’s say it right away, this presentation video was released as part of the State of Unreal event and therefore only focuses on the chapter of the realization and in particular the level of detail displayed by the environments and the characters , or even the Lumen real-time global illumination system, just to flatter the Unreal Engine 5 engine a little. This is therefore not where we will see the game in action or know what has in the belly on the mechanical level, in particular concerning this story of alternation between two worlds. That said, CI Games and HexWorks are still aiming for a 2023 release on PS5, Xbox Series and PC, so we hope to see this again. The Lords of the Fallen in not too long.