NCSOFT has launched the primary gameplay trailer, developer diary, and textual content interview for Undertaking LLL, an upcoming open-world massively multiplayer on-line third-person shooter presently in growth for console and PC. It would launch in 2024 worldwide.
“We needed to create a brand new style that’s utterly totally different from the not too long ago widespread looter shooter or battle royale,” stated undertaking lead Seeder Jaehyun Bae within the textual content interview. “We wish to create a brand new market that’s unique to NC with a brand new IP that comes with the key phrases ‘shooter,’ ‘MMO,’ and ‘open world.’ We’re growing a undertaking that mixes totally different play types and components from NC’s earlier video games, and we’re very excited to share a sneak peek with our neighborhood.”
In line with Bae, Undertaking LLL will provide a “Huge open world during which greater than 30km of land space is seamlessly linked to a single setting.” It’s being constructed on the newest Unreal Engine.
“LLL is a sci-fi sport, but it surely may also be seen as a sport that falls underneath a sub-genre of other historical past,” Bae defined. “It takes place in a world that began with the concept the historical past we all know progressed in a different way because of a selected occasion prior to now. In LLL, a devastated Seoul, the tenth century Byzantine Empire, and the twenty third century are all blended collectively in the identical lore.”
Bae cited the novels Founation, Dune, and the works of Philip Okay. Dick as inspiration for lore of the sport, and Blade Runner, Whole Recall, and The Man within the Excessive Fortress as inspiratino for its themes of know-how, human justice, and alternate historical past.
As for characters, not like different NCSOFT video games, Undertaking LLL could have predefined characters, every with a novel identify, background story, and driving forces.
Learn extra in regards to the sport within the full interveiw with Bae at NCSOFT.com
Watch the gameplay trailer and developer diary under.