At this time’s Sony State of Play began off by taking part in plenty of the standard, anticipated hits: Wolverine, Monster Hunter, and so forth. However the first actual, model new, crunchy announcement of the present actually managed to wake me up from my 8am stupor: we’re getting a sequel to Maneater! It’s Maneater 2!
Maneater, when you recall, was a sick-as-hell motion RPG (a “ShaRkPG” if you’ll, as per the advertising and marketing) recreation launched again in 2020 during which you play as a bull shark on a revenge mission. After a jackass shark hunter kills her mother, the newborn shark left behind is after blood. The sport takes place in an open world…effectively, ocean…and you’ll swim alongside, snack on wildlife, chomp down people, discover to unlock talents and combat off scarier underwater enemies like alligators, greater sharks, and whales, and slowly evolve and mutate into a real menace. It’s a reasonably stand-out premise, and it had the added benefit of being performed for comedy plenty of the time. It’s very enjoyable to be a pissed-off shark with mutant powers! Who knew!
Maneater 2, in the meantime, is ready throughout an invite-only delicate opening for a water park referred to as Neptune’s Kingdom, full of sentimental, fleshy people having fun with a swim. And also you’re a hungry shark, in fact, a unique one from the one within the first recreation. Neptune’s Kingdom is a testomony to extra, and its wealthy overlords are going a bit overboard with the cash, doing genetic experiments with marine wildlife to create abominations that reside underneath the floor, so there’s all types of bizarre stuff to search out and fend off as you swim deeper and deeper.
Critically, the unique Maneater did simply okay, but it surely’s a kind of form of middling video games that lots of people actually love not simply regardless of, however together with its rougher bits, so I’m thrilled we’re getting one other one. We didn’t get too many meaty particulars on how the sequel will play out on this trailer, although we did see the primary shark doing a little sick methods proper out of Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater, preventing an orca, chomping on a man popping out of a water slide, and reworking into some wild deep-sea mutant-looking-thing to combat an enormous crab. Yeah, that’s sick as hell.
Maneater 2 is deliberate for launch someday in 2027, and can presumably be coming to, at minimal, PlayStation 5 given its presence on this State of Play.