It’s virtually time for the Excessive on Life launch date, Squanch Video games’ newest oddball title. Founder Justin Roiland, the co-creator of hit animated collection Rick & Morty, is taking gamers to a wierd future stuffed with speaking weapons and “an alien cartel that wishes to get excessive off humanity”. As you’ll be able to most likely inform, that is actually not your typical FPS sport.
Throughout the months since Excessive on Life’s preliminary reveal on the Xbox & Bethesda Showcase 2022, the event group has launched new particulars and gameplay teasers. Now that there’s extra information to work with, right here’s the whole lot we learn about Excessive on Life thus far.
Excessive on Life launch date
The Excessive on Life launch date is December 13, 2022. Initially, the sport had an October 2022 launch window, however Squanch Video games delayed it by a couple of months shortly after.
Whereas the announcement of the delay averted revealing particular particulars, chief artistic officer and artwork director Mikey Spano has since gone into extra element. In an interview with GamesRadar+, Spano states that “October’s crowded, it’s actually crowded”, referring to God of Warfare: Ragnarok and Name of Responsibility: Trendy Warfare 2 particularly. He additionally states that delaying Excessive on Life “gave us somewhat bit of additional that we would have liked”, with the delay hopefully resulting in a extra polished product in the long term.
Excessive on Life trailers
Squanch Video games has launched numerous trailers for Excessive on Life, with extra gameplay showing at occasions. The preliminary reveal trailer was quick, displaying off a couple of locales and numerous the speaking weapons on provide. An additional trailer appeared throughout Gamescom Opening Evening Reside 2022 focusing fully on gameplay, detailing a boss battle towards the bounty goal 9-TORG.
The Squanch Video games YouTube channel has additionally been sharing quick movies that includes among the bizarre characters which will (or could not) seem throughout Excessive on Life.
Excessive on Life story
You play as a no one, having simply completed highschool with no future prospects or objectives to work in the direction of. Your boring life is interrupted by an alien cartel who wish to use humanity as a drug to get excessive.
To flee from the cartel on Earth, a speaking alien weapon named Kenny offers you the ability to teleport wherever. In an effort to flee rapidly, you find yourself teleporting your own home (together with your sister) to Blim Metropolis. Taken underneath the wing of ex-legendary bounty hunter Gene — who simply desires you to die so he can take your own home — you’ll journey the galaxy, assembly a forged of vibrant aliens alongside the best way.
The tip aim is to take out Garmantuous, the chief of the alien cartel, and his gang. To take action, you’ll accumulate numerous Gattliens, speaking weapons that every have their very own skills. The Gattliens make up plenty of the dialogue in Excessive on Life as they chatter away throughout gameplay.
Excessive on Life gameplay
Regardless of the less-than-conventional plot, Excessive on Life continues to be an FPS at its core. The Gattliens work as your weapons, together with your roster increasing over time. To begin with, you solely have entry to Kenny, whose main fireplace acts like a fundamental pistol. All weapons even have a secondary fireplace, with Kenny’s being a slimy long-range grenade. Secondaries fires are locked behind cooldown timers, although they make up for this in firepower.
Different weapons proven embrace one which features equally to a shotgun, and a Gattlien that launches creatures in the direction of enemies. Even your melee possibility takes the type of a speaking knife, which doubles up as a grappling hook for further motion choices each out and in of fight.
Excessive on Life isn’t a totally open-world sport, although you’ll be able to discover numerous different areas. Most of this exploration comes within the type of completely different planets, starting from a jungle paradise to a metropolis constructed inside an asteroid. New planets means new bounties to hunt, extra facet quests, and probably further Gattliens to accumulate.
Throughout the Xbox Video games Showcase again in June, Justin Roiland described Excessive on Life as an “action-adventure comedy Metroidvania first-person shooter”. Whereas a intentionally long-winded description of the sport, the ‘Metroidvania’ half does present some perception into how development works. Utilizing the time period Metroidvania as a descriptor implies that, relatively than a linear journey by a set checklist of planets, you’ll as a substitute be required to revisit earlier areas after buying new instruments. This will already be seen together with your knife, because the grapple operate permits you to attain larger areas and clear gaps that wouldn’t be attainable on foot.
Excessive on Life PC Recreation Cross
Excessive on Life shall be out there for PC Recreation Cross on December 13. For these with Recreation Cross Final, you’ll additionally be capable of play the sport on Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S, and by way of the cloud.
Excessive on Life DLC
At the moment, no DLC has been introduced for Excessive on Life. Nevertheless, Squanch Video games government producer Matty Studivan mentions throughout an interview with TheGamer that future downloadable content material could be on the playing cards. Studivan states that the group is “serious about DLC, as all the time”, with Squanch Video games eager to assist Excessive on Life in an identical approach to their VR title, Trover Saves the Universe. Within the case of Trover, this got here within the type of a giant free replace three months after launch.
And that’s the whole lot we learn about Excessive on Life thus far. If you wish to make sure that your PC can run the sport correctly forward of its launch, don’t overlook to take a look at Excessive on Life’s system necessities web page.