The Callisto Protocol will be released December 2 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Because ammo, health, and weapons are precious resources, you will need to scour the prison for any advantage you can find. With the GRP, you can freeze an enemy in their tracks, or throw the terrible creatures into a turbine fan or environmental hazard. To fight them off, you can use both melee combat and a gravity weapon called the GRP. Well, you aren't truly alone - monsters are running about the place.įor the game, Striking Distance Studios designed a strategic combat system that forces you to get up close and personal with the scary creatures. The game takes advantage of PS5’s 3D Audio capabilities and leverages acoustic ray tracing, diffraction, and portaling to fully immerse you in the world so that you will feel trapped, isolated, and alone. With the game, you can expect an oppressive world that feels desolate, isolated, and puts you on edge. Prison guards and inmates are mutating into horrible creatures called Biophage, and Jacob must battle not only to survive, but also uncover the dark secrets of the United Jupiter Company. Yet with the game published by PUBGs Krafton, who have released the battle royale on Stadia, there is a chance that Callisto Protocol may find its way on. Set on Jupiter’s “dead moon” Callisto in 2320, Jacob Lee (played by actor Josh Duhamel) is an inmate at Black Iron Prison who must fight for his life when a mysterious outbreak throws everything into chaos.
There aren’t any official PC requirements for The Callisto Protocol just yet, but we might get a good idea of what it’ll require based on Scorn’s PC requirements, which is the most modern survival-horror game using Unreal Engine 4.A release date for sci-fi survival horror game The Callisto Protocol was provided this evening along with the first look at gameplay. The Callisto Protocol is running on Unreal Engine 5, which is evident by how darn gorgeous and terrifying everything looks. Of course, the enemies have numerous ways to murder you outright, but even standing too close to the wrong machine could get you sucked in like a vacuum and turned into spaghetti. I got a bit squeamish looking at the various ways you could get completely destroyed. Additionally, taking out the enemy’s limbs is important.ĭeath seems frequent and gruesome. Like Dead Space, your health bar is at your back (the neck specifically), and you can curbstomp enemies that might get back up. Apparently, it’s a unique gravity weapon once used by Black Iron guards to control the prison population. We saw him pull one of the enemies toward him in a stassis-like fashion.
We got an extended gameplay look, showcasing some melee and ranged weapons and a glimpse at Jacob’s abilities. It’s a third-person survival-horror shooter with a lot of spook and a lot of death, mostly your own. If you’re a fan of Dead Space, you’ll know exactly what to expect with The Callisto Protocol’s gameplay.
I could be completely off base, but that’s my game theory. Striking Distance Studio has so far only given the vague date of 2022 for The Callisto Protocol's release, though there is potential for new information to come to light December 17th during an announcement on the game's official Discord server. My theory is the classic sci-fi trope where corrupted capitalist tendencies see inmates in a private prison being used as experiments for the “betterment of mankind” aka money. The Callisto Protocol is still a distant prospect. In the story trailer, Jacob Lee seemingly plays a larger role in the antagonist’s plot than just being a bystander caught in a greater conspiracy. The prison warden, who works for the United Jupiter Company, is somehow involved in this. We take the role of one of the prisoners, Jacob Lee (played by Josh Duhamel), who finds himself caught in a battle between other inmates that have transformed into monstrous creatures. It’s set in 2320 and takes place in a prison colony called Black Iron, which is located on Jupiter’s moon Callisto.