Coming straight outta the Xbox Games Showcase event comes a brand new trailer for The Medium, the next title from the brilliantly talented Bloober Team. Ready to take in the psychological horror that awaits within?
The Medium will be coming to Xbox Series X and PC via Steam at some point across the 2020 holiday season, but today the hype was ramped up to the max with a brand new Dual-Reality trailer, showcasing the third-person psychological horror experience that will come with unique and officially patented dual-reality gameplay within its eerie setting for the first time.
Created by Bloober Team – they behind Blair Witch, Observer and Layers of Fear – The Medium will be found delivering horror in spades. In the new Dual-reality trailer of The Medium, first seen live during the Xbox Game showcase event, players can explore both the physical and spirit world realities displayed at the same time in the body of Marianne, a medium hounded by visions, living and interacting, across two worlds: the real and the spirit world.
You can take in the trailer below, and should you do so will discover that Marianne’s movement through both worlds is controlled by a single analogue stick, while using different interactions between each of the worlds to solve puzzles and explore various paths. But that’s not all and you’ll also be able to catch a glimpse of how Marianne in the Spirit World has different abilities than the real-world Marianne, including an ability called Out of Body.
Launching on Xbox Series X and PC, The Medium will render two fully-fledged and visually distinct worlds simultaneously with no loading screens. Having access to both worlds gives a unique perspective to the tension-fueled, psychological horror game as the dual-reality gameplay with this visual fidelity only being possible on next-gen hardware.
Whilst The Medium won’t be releasing for a few months yet – Holiday 2020 is the official line – you can still get involved on the back of this trailer, with pre-orders now open from the Xbox Store (£41.74)and on Steam. Do so on the latter and you’ll receive The Medium original soundtrack, featuring a ‘dual’ score soundtrack by legendary composer Akira Yamaoka, of Silent Hill fame, and Bloober Team’s Arkadiusz Reikowski, and the digital artbook for The Medium.
