Third-person stealth action with cyberpunk aesthetics: new Xbox-exclusive rumors from Microsoft’s new studio

Earlier this week, new rumors about the debut project surfaced online. The Initiative – an ambitious internal studio Microsoft, which has been actively working with next generation consoles for many months Xbox series x and Xbox series s

The discussions were first provoked by insiders who took part in the podcast XboxEra Podcast – close to the project The Initiative people supposedly outlined a general development structure for themdescribing it as “episodic“and comparing with the series”Black mirror“.

Later, the hosts of the Xbox Two podcast, including Jez Corden from edition Windows CentralWhistleblowers Corrected Discussed Rumors, confirming some of the data, but also told a lot of new things.

Below we have collected basic information from insiders for you

  • Debut project The Initiative is a third-person stealth action game set in a cyberpunk setting. In this case, the emphasis is on the stealth elements – the players will have to hide from enemies and secretly move around the locations.
  • Rumor about “episodicity“does carry some weight. However, instead of the word”episode“insiders preferred”season“. In other words, game content can supposedly spread in waves, but how exactly this will be implemented in practice is still unknown.
  • There will be little in The Initiative “cinematic“episodes – wait for a game similar to Uncharted or The last of us, really better not worth it.
  • Desire discussed online The Initiative create games AAAA-grade somewhat far from reality. By specifying such a characteristic in its vacancies, the studio has formed a somewhat incorrect idea among the audience about what it is actually doing, the insider claims. Microsoft management views the team as “small but effective“, no”assassins God of War“from her is not planned.
  • In their projects The Initiative going to experiment a lot, including with formats. As specifies Jez Corden, this command Microsoft more correct to compare with Finnish Remedy Entertainment (authors Alan wake and Control) than mastodons of the type Naughty dog

Corden emphasizes that everything described above does not mean at all that the game of an ambitious studio will be bad – you just should not expect from it an analogue of the leading cinematic blockbusters. Sony on Xbox

Insiders also added that for the first time to look at the game The Initiative the general public should soon enough – ready to show the project to ordinary players

It is possible that the debut teaser Microsoft will demonstrate already during the show The Game Awards 2023

See also: PlayStation 5 owners urged not to lose hope: An insider spoke about the imminent announcement of the restart of Silent Hill

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