Tonight, opening the yearly Game Awards show, developer Ninja Theory showed disconnected the archetypal look astatine Hellblade II: Senua's Sacrifice gameplay.
The trailer opens with protagonist Senua entering a cave with allies arsenic an impossibly large, human-like beast stalks outside. When the elephantine beast walks into the cave, subsequently collapsing connected the wall, the squad attacks the monster, mounting it ablaze. Soon after, Senua's squad goes up successful flames, arsenic the beast slams its mode around, trying to onslaught backmost astatine its aggressors. Spotting Senua and the remaining allies near living, the unit retreats, trying desperately to tally distant and retaliate arsenic champion it can.
Senua and her team's efforts to bring down the beast each autumn abbreviated arsenic it continues to pursuit them extracurricular of the cave, smashing surrounding structures. The trailer ends with the carnal asking Senua for help. Senua replies, saying, "I cognize you," arsenic 1 of the voices successful her caput says "It's you." The trailer ends there.
Host Geoff Keighley said astatine the extremity of the trailer that what we were watching wasn't a cinematic, but existent gameplay, though it was hard to archer however interactive thing shown disconnected successful the trailer really was – the camera was perpetually whipping astir during the trailer, seemingly indicating astatine slightest portion of it was, successful fact, cinematics. At the precise least, it stands to crushed everything we were seeing was moving in-engine.
Hellblade II: Senua's Sacrifice volition beryllium released connected Xbox Series X/S and PC. It volition besides beryllium disposable done Xbox's Game Pass subscription service. No merchandise day was given.