(video game music chimes) - [Narrator] Video games aren't
always just about graphics, but today they are. We're talking about Unreal Engine 5. This is a tool set that game
developers use to create games. And with the newest
technology in Unreal Engine 5, it can make some games look very pretty. So today we're talking about 10 upcoming Unreal
Engine 5 based games that are shaping up to be
looking pretty incredible. Starting off with number 10, let's talk about Immortals of Aveum. This one, despite the awkward name, is a pretty cool concept. Essentially it's like
a first person shooter Call of Duty campaign, but instead of elite tactical soldiers, you're elite tactical wizards. This is actually being
made by a new studio and published under EA's Originals banner, which usually has some
pretty good results. And it's from a team of
game industry veterans, many behind some Call of Duty games. But this is a single
player first person shooter story adventure where the main
combat is you shooting people with magic from your hands. And from what we've seen of it so far, it's just a good old fashioned video game. It's got a bunch of lore,
crazy over the top characters, big set piece moments,
over the top levels. It feels like a good throwback to some of those shooter campaigns from like the Xbox 360, PS3 era. But the thing that really
changes it are the visuals. From what we've seen
so far in the trailers and the gameplay trailers, the game is looking pretty stunning. We've seen a lot of really cool cut scenes that are running in engine, and the characters look downright cool. I don't wanna say like hyper realistic, but they just seem expressive
and hyper detailed. And then you're jumping into worlds with all these magical effects
blasting from your fingertips with some really nice
lighting and big environments. While some things might
look generic on the surface, and this might be a lot of
flash and style over substance, it is certainly shaping
up to look very pretty. I mean, who doesn't get
excited at like, you know, shooting wild, crazy blue, red,
green magic from your hands and then dudes explode. Sometimes even dragons. Yeah, you fight dragons. Everything is colorful,
everything is lit perfectly, everything is shiny. And if anything that's
just like a graphical flex and sometimes we're here for that. Immortals of Aveum is an upcoming game, but thankfully we don't have
to wait too much longer for it. It's releasing this summer. Next over at number nine, we're going smaller scale with
something called Anime Tokyo. This is a project by a single developer that is essentially recreating
a stylized version of Tokyo. It's been billed as dreamlike. And from what we've seen, even though it is clearly
very much a work in progress, the level of detail in this
city is pretty shocking. What they're going for here
clearly is not ultra realistic, you know, hyper realistic with like crazy textures and stuff, but more of a detailed
stylized world reminiscent of something you would
actually see in an anime. The world they built here
seems to be living up to the game's namesake. There's video out there about the developers really going in depth with a lot of things like
restaurant art, billboard art, stuff like that. And it really shows. It's got that good blend
of realism and anime style that just makes this perfect
almost dreamlike thing. I think for some anime
fans this is like really what they've been looking for. And even if it's not like
a full game experience where you're like running around
and shooting and battling, to just have a cool city built beautifully with good vibes is really appealing. Now next over at number
eight we have Unrecord. This is the game that really
took the internet by storm when the developer showed it off. This is a small team, but they're essentially making
a really intense body cam almost found footage
style first person shooter that looks so real that it's kind of hard
to believe it's real, to the point where it blew up online, and the developer
actually had to post proof that this is a real actual running game. I think this is for a couple of reasons. Number one, the camera
style and the filter over it can definitely make
things feel more realistic because that first person view is looking at hyper realistic
Unreal Engine 5 environments with all the tech going on; the texturing, the realistic
lighting, all of that stuff. That stuff looks incredibly real, but then when you slap a
kind of video body cam filter over it, it's gonna look even more real because it's like obscured a little bit. It's playing a trick on your eyes to just make it look more believable. That being said, the way the
game actually moves and plays, we don't know for sure
how that's gonna work. From what we see here, it looks
very almost nausea inducing. But essentially what this is going to be is a tactical first person shooter where you're kind of like a detective trying to solve this complex police case and investigate all these areas. I mean, from what we see, it actually just looks
way more action packed and it seems more like
you're just a badass shooting bad guys. But the developer did put
out a Q&A breaking down like what the game is really going to be with at least some level of transparency, and they are gonna try
and go for a nuanced story that isn't just gung ho. Granted, this is the early days. We don't know for sure. And we have seen a lot of
video game projects out there that look too good to be true. So plenty of people still
have a lot of valid skepticism of this, like rightfully so. But just judging from the
gameplay footage they've put out there that does seem
like something running in real time, there's no denying that it's not pretty impressive looking. Even if the game ends up not
really being much of a game or it plays like crap, what they have at least
crafted visually here is downright stunning. If you ask me, I would just love to see
a horror game like this. It's just begging for it. Am I right? I mean, I know the found
footage horror thing kind of came and went, but
there was some cool stuff there, and in video game form, they
can knock that out of the park. So Unrecord, whether that
becomes a big thing or not, hopefully developers take note
of how viral this thing went and make something scary with it. There is one horror game
with this style in the works, but we'd like to see even more 'cause we just love horror games too. Anyway, I've gone on
a tangent long enough. Next up at number seven, we have something called
Project RYU or Project Ryu. This is definitely another kind of small experimental experience, but it's still worth looking at if you like to see fancy graphics. What they have established
here, and by they, I mean apparently a very
small six person indie team by the name specifically RYU Production is create a world specifically for an RPG set in like a virtual Korea. And what we get here is a
beautiful and detailed metropolis with tons of beautiful foliage, all different types of atmospheric
effects, insane lighting, and we get to see it all
in multiple different types of lighting, times of
day, weather patterns, and it's pretty impressive looking. From bridges to grimy city streets to the more colorful, brightly
lit clean downtown streets, there seems like there's
gonna be a lot of variety in this project. Granted there's not too much to go on if you can't tell by
what I'm talking about. All we have is a really
cool in-game graphics video, and frankly that's about
it, but it does look cool. Anyway, next over at number
six we have Atlas Fallen. This is a really interesting
looking third person action RPG set in a mythical land with
you as a powerful character that can wield magic to their whim in a kind of combination open world, Dark Siders mixed with Monster Hunter. That's probably the best
way I can describe it. We got to go hands on with this
game a couple of months ago, and it does seem like a fun
kind of throwback style, traditional action adventure game with some light RPG elements
and some exploration and some really over the
top fights and traversal. You're surfing around environments
specifically over sand, and it looks really cool. This game apparently is
set in Unreal Engine 5, and although it's not like the most out of this world looker, it does have some moments where
it can be really impressive with some draw distances,
detailed characters, and some really cool
onscreen particle effects. The battles get pretty big and epic. Your weapons shape shift. And while there is like a desert focus, it does seem like there's
gonna be a variety of biomes, which will help with I
guess flexing the power of the graphics they have going on here. This does release in August, and we're probably gonna be
making a before you buy video on it, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled because this one seems interesting. Next over at number five
we have Chrono Odyssey. This is apparently an MMO RPG from a South Korean studio called Npixel. They're going big here. Apparently this is going to be on multi-platforms like PC and PS5. And the trailer that they
dropped like a month ago is downright stunning. If this is a real game,
this is pretty nuts. We see detailed environments,
massive soaring buildings with tons and tons of little
meticulous details on them, grassy fields, busy cobblestone streets, realistic looking horses,
realistic looking characters with cool fight and running
and movement animations, detailed bad guys. All of this happening
seemingly in real time with a bunch of different
effects like detailed flames, water, wind, foliage. This stuff is nuts. Is this gonna be style over substance? We don't know for sure. And to be honest, like I
don't know how the heck a game that is a massively multiplayer
online role playing game can look this good, but if they take their
time and really go all out, they could truly have
something incredible here. And of course it's not
all totally graphics. The combat that we got to see glimpses of does seem interesting, but with the gameplay
reveal they did put out, the emphasis was seemingly
on how pretty it looks. So if they're selling it on
that really first and foremost, I still wanna see more of
what this game actually is. And we don't know when it's coming out, so we still have a lot of questions, but we know as of right now
it does look very gorgeous. Next, over at number
four we have Project M. This is another kind
of a high concept thing that we don't know when
we're actually going to see this be a video game, but essentially what
this is is a presentation from publisher NCSoft where
someone in the company is like a digital Unreal
Engine 5 recreated version of themselves talking
about this new story-based simulated reality type game. That's their quote, "simulated reality." I don't really know what that
has to do with a video game. But what we do see here
from this presentation is seemingly a very flashy,
gorgeous looking cinematic, story based game seemingly based around
making certain decisions with branching paths. We see really cool shootouts
in detailed hallways. We see showdowns in cramped apartments. We see detailed shiny laboratories
and grimy city streets. There's a lot going on here. And although we got stuff that looks like snippets of gameplay, we can't really verify
how real this game is yet. But it is definitely NCSoft showing that they are here to play, specifically with the
next generation of gaming and a budget and also just
clearly Unreal Engine 5, 'cause yeah, this looks
really cool and all visually, but like we still don't have a good idea of what the hell this game even is. But hey, moving on over to number three, we got a real genuine game
that's coming out soon to talk about, like it's
tangible, we can see it. It's Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Now this development studio
has been through a lot to get this game out there. And although it has been
delayed many, many times, it is shaping up to be
pretty damn awesome. Now the Stalker games are significant because they really were
incredibly unique on PC when they initially released and kind of created like
their own sub genre in a way. So for the series to
return but also return and look absolutely downright
stunning, it's a big deal. We've been looking forward
to this for a while. And as you can see on screen here, environments are filled with detail. The dark areas are
incredibly dark and realistic with the light of a nearby
fire dancing across the walls, detailed environments
during the day littered with objects floating around
thanks to a scientific anomaly. You're gonna be experiencing this all in first person investigating,
dealing with anomalies, and trying to survive in this
post-apocalyptic wasteland, but also shooting bad guys with seemingly realistically modeled guns that you're gonna be able to manipulate and customize and see. And really it just seems
like they're going full bore with this one. And not to mention the fact that it's going to be a
technically non-linear story in a full open world. We really are hoping that the
final product is as stunning as it has looked leading
up to it because damn. Now down to number two,
we have Black Myth Wukong. We've been talking about
this one for a long time, and essentially this is a
Souls like inspired action RPG developed and published by an Asian studio based specifically around the
16th century Chinese novel "Journey to the West." This is like classic mythology stuff. If you went to college
and studied literature, you probably understand more significance of this main kind of
monkey like character. And while we saw a pre-alpha
gameplay many years ago with a lot of people going, "Wait, is this gonna be a real game?" More and more we've seen like more of it where it's an actual real thing
running in Unreal Engine 5. The developers have put
out gameplay trailers, and we get a lot here. I mean, a lot of what
we've seen and talked about in other games on this list, but also here specifically
detailed character animations and some over the top gorgeous like almost lifelike looking bosses. I mean, lifelike is a stretch because like they're all
like horrific monsters and weird things like that,
but you know what I mean. Just the detail of the character moving, jumping through the water, the creativity of the way
some of this stuff goes down, the snow effects. There's just a lot to this
game that has stood out to us over the years looking at
little gameplay snippets, and we hope to really see it soon. The developers have said that they had planned
to release it in 2023, but it seems like now
it's moving over to 2024. And it's definitely
one where you want them to take their time and make something good because a Souls like game with this level of graphical fidelity and just kind of a
different type of setting and vibe based on the source material is something I think that
the market really needs and something that the
subgenre really needs. Now finally down at number one, we have Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2. This one is definitely stunning. If you can see on screen here, it's kind of beyond comprehension what they have going on here. Now we were big fans here of the original Hellblade Senua Sacrifice. If you haven't played it, you should definitely check it out. It is not a perfect game, but
it tells a really cool story with a really cool presentation,
and it looked damn good. But this time around,
man, from what we've seen, the newest Xbox showcase
highlighted a weird trippy sequence with Senua in a cave
where things are going on. But the previous gameplay
segment they showed with Senua a fighting against
a massive, giant weird guy, that's the only way I can
describe it, that was insane. All the water, mud, and fire effects were just downright mind blowing. But when you combine that all with some incredible performance capture and highly realistic faces,
it all just looks very eerie, but in a good way. Honestly, at this point,
from what we've seen, we've kind of talked this game to death. We haven't seen like moment
to moment exploration or what regular combat looks like, but we have seen snippets
here and there showing us that graphically this game is shaping up to be really impressive. It was one of the earlier
darlings when Unreal Engine 5 was first kind of revealed, and they've been sticking with it, and it's shaping up to
look pretty awesome. And we hope to see it soon because this one has been
in the works for a while. So those are some really
stunning upcoming games in Unreal Engine 5. Now, some of these games, like I said, are a little bit more smaller,
indie or experimental, more project style, and some are big, massive
AAA games coming soon. But regardless of the level of project, what do you think looks the coolest from a visual standpoint? Let's talk about this
stuff down in the comments. We'd love to know what you think, but also if you got any suggestions for other games we should highlight in a part two of this video,
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