The Biomutant Trailer You Need To Watch To Understand It's World

THQ Nordic and developer Experiement 101 released a 6-minute trailer explaining the various features that exist in the world of open-world action RPG Biomutant, which is set launch on May 25, 2021.

Biomutant is clearly inspired by various games but what really stands out is it’s character designs as well as how much freedom the game gives to the player from customizing your character as to how he/she will look to the weapons you will use in combat.

The combat is pretty fast-paced as Biomutant has this fluid movement available to the player with martial art moves mixed in with some gun play, giving me some Devil May Cry vibes when watching combat footage. Let’s also not forget the mutations that give your character abilities like spawning mushrooms to jump on or throw rocks at enemies.

There’s a lot going on in this open world game and the trailer below, which was narrated by the game’s creative director Stefan Ljungqvist, serves as a perfect introduction if this is the first time you’ve heard of Biomutant.

Here’s an overview about the game’s features provided by THQ Nordic:

Biomutant Key Features

• A New Take on Third-Person Combat – The martial arts style combat system allows you maximum freedom of movement and agility while mixing shooting, melee, and powers from your mutations. Learning new Wung-Fu combat forms through progression and learning from masters you’ll meet, will constantly add to your choices and make sure combat never gets old.

• Evolve Your Gameplay – You’ll be able to re-code your genetic structure to change the way you look and play. This will of course affect your attributes and in addition to this, exposure to bio-contamination in the world will lead to mutations like the Turtleform and Mucus Bubble, while exposure to radioactivity found in bunkers from the old world will affect your mind and unlock psi-mutations like telekinesis, levitation and more.

• Next Level of Crafting – You are totally free when crafting weapons. Mix and match parts to create your own unique 1H or 2H slash and crush weapons. Revolvers, rifles and shotguns and add modifications like cork-screws and battery-powered chainsaw modules to bio-contaminated sludge vials adding to your combat arsenal. There are even characters you’ll meet that’ll craft cool stuff for you, like bionic wings, a jump-pack and even let you modify your Automaton – the scrap-toy sidekick!

• Gear Up for Adventure – You are totally free when equipping your character. Not only when it comes to choosing weapons you created, but what type of gear you wear. Equip a gas-mask and an oxygen tank for exploring the Dead Zones, thermos-resistant clothes for venturing into cryonic areas or protective gear for taking on bio-contaminated creatures, the choice is up to you.

• Survive in a Vibrant Open World – You are free to explore the world and what lies beneath its surface, by foot, mech, jet-ski, air-balloon or area unique mounts. Explore the dying wildland, the tunnels and bunker networks of the underworld, and find your way up the mountains or out in the archipelago. There are lots of discoveries to be made, mysteries to unravel, creatures to confront, and weird characters to meet in this vibrant and colorful world.

• An Unusual Story with an Unusual End - Your actions play a major part in the unfolding of a story where End is coming to the New World. A plague is ruining the land and the Tree-of-Life is bleeding death from its roots. The Tribes stand divided, in need of someone strong enough to unite them or bring them all down… You are guided through the world by a Storyteller that narrates every step of your journey, but it’s your actions and choices that’ll decide how your story of survival ends.

Biomutant is set to launch next week on May 25, 2021 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC through Stea, GOG, Origin, and the Epic Games Store. The developers currently has no plans to release a native PS5 and Xbox Series X|S version of Biomutant. Naturally, thanks to the current generation’s backwards compatibility, the previous generation versions will be playable on either current generation consoles.

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