Everything We Know About Hideo Kojima & Jordan Peele’s OD So Far

OD is a brand new undertaking by auteur online game director Hideo Kojima and sees the gaming icon as soon as once more teaming up with Hollywood to supply gamers with a surreal and distinctive expertise. Right here is every part we learn about OD to date.

Kojima and Peele

Oscar-nominated horror directed Jordan Peele joined Kojima onstage at The Game Awards 2023 to announce his involvement within the undertaking. What half the director of Get Out and Nope performs in OD is unknown. The title is being described as a movie simply as a lot as it’s a sport with Kojima as soon as once more trying to blur the road between the 2 mediums. Maybe that is the place Peele will contribute.

Equally, Kojima’s final foray into horror, the ill-fated Silent Hills (higher recognized for its demo P.T.), additionally noticed him workforce up with an esteemed Hollywood director, Guillermo del Toro. Onstage at The Sport Awards Peele expressed his love for Kojima and Metal Gear Solid 2, earlier than calling OD “fully immersive” and “completely terrifying”. Judging from the announcement trailer, Peele is perhaps proper. Jordan Peele isn’t the one title on board for OD, nevertheless, with Kojima promising a gaggle of “legends” contributing to the title. He hasn’t mentioned who but, however likened the group to “the Avengers”.

An Xbox Unique?

Kojima Productions’ first title Death Stranding launched completely on the PlayStation 4 again in 2019, but it surely appears to be like like Microsoft has tempted the auteur over to the inexperienced facet of the console conflict. Kojima Productions has partnered with Xbox Sport Studios to make OD, an enormous win for Xbox and Phil Spencer. Based on the official press release, OD might be utilizing “Xbox Sport Studios and their cloud gaming expertise to tackle the problem of making a really distinctive, immersive, and completely new fashion of sport”.

Whereas it isn’t confirmed, OD will in all probability be an Xbox unique. Alongside Xbox, logos for Unreal Engine, Serbian graphics firm 3Lateral (owned by Epic Video games), and photorealistic modeling studio MetaHuman are additionally seen within the trailer.

The Solid

OD stars Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves and IT actress Sophia Lillis, Euphoria star Hunter Schafer, and German character actor Udo Kier. That is Lillis and Shafer’s first time showing in a online game, however amongst Kier’s greater than 270 credit, he has voiced characters in video games comparable to Martha is Dead and Call of Duty: WWII.

The Reveal Trailer

OD will discover “the idea of testing your concern threshold, and what it means to OD on concern”. How does one overdose on concern although? Within the reveal trailer, the three leads seem as disturbingly life like CGI heads, floating in a darkish void. An off-screen presence terrifies them, even inflicting Sophia Lillis’ character to set free a frankly horrifying scream.

The phrase “the hungry purple dinosaur ate the type zingy fox, the jabbering crab, and the mad whale and began merchandising and quacking” is repeated by the trio. This phrase is an instance of a phonetic pangram, a sentence that makes use of all of the phonemes and letters of the English alphabet. How this phrase pertains to Kojima’s subsequent undertaking is anybody’s guess. Within the trailer, we are able to additionally hear footsteps, the creaking of a door, and a mysterious clicking, crackling noise. Truthfully, although, it’s Sophia Lillis’ scream that may keep in my thoughts till OD is launched.

Launch Date

There may be at the moment no launch date for OD. Nevertheless, with Kojima Productions additionally engaged on Demise Stranding 2, we in all probability can’t count on a launch any time quickly.

As is the case with any Hideo Kojima undertaking we might be speculating on OD till the cows come dwelling. One factor is for positive although, this sport might be not like something we’ve seen earlier than. It’s Kojima in spite of everything. His video games are insane and iconic. In spite of everything who anticipated Demise Stranding to be a couple of post-apocalyptic supply man when its first trailer dropped? For extra on OD and different video games introduced at The Sport Awards, stick with Twinfinite.

Concerning the creator

Alex Johnson

Alex has been writing about video games for over 4 years and if there’s one factor he fears in life it’s writing a bio. He studied movie on the College of Lincoln, has a small obsession with Fortnite and hopes to truly end a FromSoftware sport in the future.