Around ten years after the release of BioShock Infinite, Judas is the next game from Ken Levine and former Irrational Games developers. Players take on the role of troubled Judas trying to escape a crumbling spaceship. The visual parallels to BioShock cannot be denied.
Judas is being developed by Ghost Story Games, the new studio founded in 2017 led by Ken Levine, who was responsible for games like System Shock 2, BioShock and BioShock Infinite. The team consists mainly of former Irrational Games employees and is focusing on a new, purely single-player title with Judas, which will be implemented as a narrative first-person shooter.
Judas is coming to PC and game consoles
The new game has now been announced at the Game Awards and will be released for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S as well as for the PC on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Judas is “deep” in development, explains Ghost Story Games, and therefore has no release date yet. The studio will also act as publisher for the game. Ghost Story Games is Take-Two Interactive Software's self-publishing label.
Alliances with the Worst Enemies
< p class="p text-width">Players take on the role of the troubled Judas, a mysterious woman, as can be heard from the voiceover in the trailer. “The ship is dying and my only way out of here is with one of these,” is the premise of the game where, according to Ghost Story Games, alliances with the worst enemies are the only hope for survival. “Fix what you broke” is the mission for players.
Fighting is also done with plasmids
Details of the story are still pending, but the visual implementation and first excerpts of the gameplay reveal numerous parallels to BioShock. In places, the same art deco style can be found that has also shaped the BioShock series so enormously. The trailer fights with classic weapons, but there also seems to be something like plasmids again. Game characters and their animations could in some places come straight from a “BioShock 4” if you didn't know that Judas is supposed to open a completely new chapter. Apparently, Judas is a long way from Rapture or Columbia.
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Judas (Image: Ghost Story Games)
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Judas (Image: Ghost Story Games)
Judas gets up Already add it to the wishlist on Steam and the Epic Games Stores. A release date or system requirements for the PC are not yet available.