Developer 1047 Games has announced that Split gate 2the sequel to the 2021 first-person shooter Split gatewill be released for free in 2025 on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
The upcoming game is a 4v4 multiplayer shooter built on Unreal Engine 5 and features “fast-paced portal gunplay with objective-based game modes and striking futuristic maps.” It will also feature a faction system, customizable weapons, and, you guessed it, portals.
“In the summer of 2021, when we Split gate “On PS4, we didn’t know what to expect,” 1047 CEO Ian Proulx said in a new interview with PlayStation Blog“We certainly weren’t ready for the millions of people who went online and wanted to play our version of a first-person shooter.
“Of Split gate“We made a game that we loved and that our amazing community embraced, but we didn’t make the game of our dreams.”
Proulx continued by saying that he believes the upcoming sequel is “the game I dreamed of when Nicholas Bagamian [CTO and Co-founder of 1047 Games] and I got together in a Stanford dorm room and decided to put portals in a shooter game.”
The developer said that the team has been working on the game for so long and that they want to share more about the game next month. He added that it was difficult to play the game. the development of stopping Split gate 2022Proulx and the team knew developing a sequel was the right way forward.
“We had to start from scratch, in some ways,” Proulx explained. “That meant building from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5, with completely new character models, new maps, new weapons, even new portal walls and portals.”
Despite being a multiplayer shooter, a story writer was hired to work on the universe and create rich lore for Split gate 2 In the future, digital comics and films will also appear.
The game won’t be released until 2025, but Proulx already has plans for the future. He explained that the goal to keep the game fun was to “make a game that will last for at least ten years.”
“It’s not just about having a ton of content ready to go when we launch,” Proulx added. “It starts with the fundamentals of the design. While the first Splitgate was inspired by classic arena shooters, we realized that in order to make a modern game that has longevity, we needed to develop the tools to create a deep and satisfying gameplay loop.”
The developer said this starts with Split gate 2‘s faction-based multiplayer, and while the team wouldn’t share any details just yet, “there’s a lot of it shown off in our announcement trailer.”
