A new game namedBehemothhas been revealed from Skydance Interactive, the developer ofThe Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. This past week Meta held its first Meta Connect event, a continuation of its annual Oculus Connect and the first sinceFacebookrebranded. In the wake of Meta Connect 2022, attention has been shifted toward upcoming virtual reality projects for the Meta Quest 2 VR headset. Skydance capitalized on that attention to draw eyes towardBehemoth.
Skydance Interactive has been aggressively developing VR games over the past six years. It started with the release ofArchangel, a first-person shooter mech game, in 2016. Since then,Skydancehas releasedPWNDandThe Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, withSaints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retributionarriving in December later this year. Suffice to say, Skydance has a lot of confidence in the future of VR, at least so long as it can continue releasing games every one to two years.
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Behemothis the name of Skydance Interactive’s next project, to followSaints & Sinners - Chapter 2. The announcement trailer released recently confirmed that name. The rest of the trailer is little more than a teaser for the project. It shows a foggy, snowy landscape and as the weather clears it reveals a humongous clawed hand stretching out from the snowy earth. The hand could very well simply be carved ice or stone, but the implication is that it’s the grip of a monstrousBehemoth.
Little else can be drawn from the teaser trailer forBehemoth. There are mountains in the background, trees in the foreground, and birds flying in the sky. There are also loud stomps that can be heard, as if aT-Rex fromJurassic Parkis walking by. Snow even falls off one of the “fingers” after a stomp. TheBehemothmay not be the monster whose hand we see.
Skydance itself provided a very brief description ofBehemoth, stating that the VR game will feature a “grim new world.” It also describes the world as “brutal,” and says that players will have to “fight for their survival.” Lastly,Behemothis only confirmed for theMeta Quest 2headset, though it isn’t clear if it’s exclusive or just a part of the game’s marketing.
It’s unclear when Skydance will share more information aboutBehemoth, butVR fanslikely won’t have to wait long. Skydance will likely focus onThe Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retributionthrough December, withBehemothbecoming its focus in 2023. Until then, the question of whatBehemothreally is will remain unanswered.
