Winteryear Studios Los Angeles have announced that they will be bringing The Next World to Switch. The game is an open-world, action-adventure cyberpunk RPG, set in a dystopian Los Angeles in the year 2108. In it, you’ll be playing as a systems engineer for a corrupt corporation, undertaking corporate espionage missions in exchange for medical costs for your dying mother.
For further details, check out the overview below, which comes via its Steam page:
The Next World is an open-world, action-adventure cyberpunk RPG set in a dystopian Los Angeles in the year 2108, where you play as Dresden, a systems engineer for the most involved and powerful corporation in the world: The PXL Megacorporation who has become essentially a corporate one-world government.
You find yourself struggling to balance the preservation of your life, your mothers life, the lives of your friends all while having the world crush down on you because you accidentally uncovered a secret so powerful, it could unmake humanity.
Take on jobs, build your reputation among factions and people, unlock cybernetic upgrades, special abilities, weapons, build vehicles and fight through until the very end – with up to 12 unique game endings!
You play as Dresden, a systems engineer for the PXL Megacorporation. Living in a utopian paradise, known as the Trigons; Dresden is evicted for the crime of new found poverty after he spends his entire life savings in order to put his mother through cancer treatment. Once Dresden is deported from the Trigons, he is approached by Damon Knight, VP of the PXL Megacorporation who offers him the deal of a lifetime, one Dresden has no choice but to take. PXL will take care of his mothers medical expenses and give Dresden a full return to his former life, in exchange for espionage against a list of their adversaries.
Dresden is far underequipped and too inexperienced, but still attempts to carry out his missions while making allies and enemies alike. When the world turns upside down for Dresden, he accidentally stumbes upon the most dangerous discovery of all time.
Dresden uncovers a secret and a conspiracy so large it stands to unravel the entire planet, starting all the way at the top of the PXL Megacorporation, while they hold his mothers life in the balance.
Dresden and his allies must save themselves from an endless wave of adversaries, with limitless resources to ensure this discovery doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. Trusting the wrong people means certain death — or worse.
The relationships you forge and the choices you make will shape the story and the world around you.
Conversations you have with characters will impact the course of the future and either provide you with power, or with peril.
With 12 possible endings to the game — the future is up to you.
It’s up to you to decide if your targets will become allies, enemies or non-existent.
The game begins with 10 primary targets and adversaries, all of which are affected by your conversations, gameplay and actions.
Your choices unlock different paths, missions and access to areas, new characters and opportunities.
Living in a connected city surrounded by cameras makes your life a bit more difficult when you are wanted in certain areas. PXL Corporation’s police force is always on patrol.
Ruiners, bounty hunters with a license to kill exist in every area just waiting for a contract to come through. Make enemies with the wrong people and Ruiner contracts will be put out in that district. Ruiners are extremely skilled, heavily armed and look just like you and me. Watch your back.
Allies can be made or lost at any time.
Characters belong to factions and how you behave with them ultimately dictates how the entire faction with treat you.
Once an ally is made, this symbol appears outside their location.
Even the general population is an entire faction. If they witness you committing crimes, violence or you intimidate them; the entire population will turn against you, often calling the police or screaming for help and running away from you. Your behavior and discretion matters
Drive, walk or ride through the dense concrete forest of Downtown Los Angeles.
There are over 92 city blocks with accessible buildings, businesses and activities.
Explore endless alleyways and countless open areas.
Explore every rooftop by using retractable fire escapes, ladders, bridges and more.
Take a walk underground in the sprawling sewer system
Fly across the skyline in any number of flying vehicles.
Purchase properties that are for sale and use them for special purposes or to generate income for your character.
The sprawling city is separated into districts. All of which have their own look, feel and purposes.
Arts District
Fashion District
Little Tokyo
Financial District
Industrial District
South Park
Historic District
Theatre District
Bunker Hill
Chinatown
Toy District
Skid RowMaking enemies in a district will often cause a Ruiner contract to be put out on you in that district. It’s best to avoid those areas until either the contract expires or you resolve it with whoever established the contract.
Buy, steal, borrow or build your own motorcycles, cars and utility vehicles.
Vehicles include futuristic flying cars, retro-future flying cars, street motorcycles, rideable drones, flying motorcycles and more!
Build and race hovering desert hot rods or build a motorcycle from spare parts which will accompany you throughout the game.
Upgrade your drivers license level in-game to enable new altitudes, top speeds and acceleration.
Upgrade your cybernetic abilities by procuring STASIS CONNECTORS, tiny biotech devices which unlock the bodies natural abilities and even pair them with electronic components.
You have an internal bioelectric battery which is limited, so use cybernetic abilities with discretion.
Just some of the cybernetic abilities you can unlock:
Targeted EMP discharge – discharge a focused bolt of electricity at one or more targets (living or mechanical).
Burst EMP discharge – Discharge all your power in one a massive electrical field which shuts down all vehicles, devices, lights, electronics and darkens entire city blocks around you, often creating a dark environment which is difficult for enemies to see you (unless they are equipped with night/thermal vision)
Deep Sight – Visualize electrical circuits and paths in buildings and around the city to find connected devices or central routers which you can hack to gain access.
Glass Cloak – Become almost invisible to enemies. They can still see your weapon if you are holding one or more, so be cautious.
AdremalEngine – Enable an adrenaline pump which makes time seemingly slow down while you continue to move at normal speed. Able to avoid bullets, attacks, vehicles and more.and much more!
Fight enemies, gangs, police and more using your abilities or a plethora of futuristic weapons. Employ stealth tactics to take enemies down quietly, or go in guns blazing.
The game can be played non-lethal, or lethal.
Some of the weapons included are:
Sniper rifles
Rocket launcher
Grenade launcher
Sticky IED bombs with either proximity or remote triggers
Anti-gravity gun for lifting enemies or objects
STASIS field launcher which creates a field that slows down enemies, bullets, weapons or you (useful if you are falling and wish to not die)
Frag grenade
Iron cloud grenade – creates a cloud of iron dust, which when enemies breathe it in you can electrify it using your cybernetic augmentations to and electrocute all of them at once, or apply magnetism to the dust and have the particles rip through their bodies, killing them instantly.
Numerous laser weapons and cannons
and much more!
