At Gamescom 2017, video game publisher Koei Tecmo has announced that Omega Force’s 2016 video game adaptation of Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan will be getting a sequel in early 2018. The game will be titled Attack on Titan 2.
Attack on Titan 2 will continue where the first game left of, covering the events taken place in the anime’s second season. The game will retain many gameplay elements from the first, including its fast paced and high octane action, as well as introducing many new gameplay mechanics.
Here is the announcement trailer for the game:
Koei Tecmo and Omega Force’s Attack on Titan released in late 2016 for the PlayStation family of consoles, Xbox One and on PC via Steam. No platforms have been confirmed for the sequel.
Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) is an action manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It started in 2009 and is published in Kodansha’s monthly Bessatsu Shounen Magazine. To date there has been a total of 21 compiled volumes. A prequel light novel adaptation started in 2011, and two spin-off manga started serialization in 2012: Shingeki no Kyojin: Before the Fall and Shingeki! Kyojin Chuugakkou. In April 2013 the series was picked up for an anime adaptation. The anime series was produced by the newly formed Wit Studios. The series has grown in popularity since the anime’s debut, with the manga selling over 36 million copies as of April this year. Numerous game adaptations of the series were created following the anime, including a PlayStation 4 title in 2016. Two live action film adaptations were be released in Japan in 2015.
Here is a synopsis of the original series from MAL:
Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by titans. Titans are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligence, devour human beings and, worst of all, seem to do it for the pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest of titans.
Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a titan in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness something horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a colossal titan that appears out of thin air. As the smaller titans flood the city, the two kids watch in horror as their mother is eaten alive. Eren vows that he will murder every single titan and take revenge for all of mankind.
A sequel to the Attack on Titan game has been announced and is in production for an early 2018 release. Further details about the game, including what platforms it will release on, will be revealed at a later date.
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