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July 16,Hotta Studio, a subsidiary of Perfect World, officially released its new work "Alien Ring", and released a 4-minute first exposure PV and about thirteen minutes of actual machine demonstration video.

In the actual game demo video, the official showed the game maps, combat gameplay, scene switching, and some special gameplay.

At present, the number of views of this video on Bilibili has exceeded 4 million, and the number of comments has reached more than 40,000.

It is reported that,This is a supernatural urban open world game developed with Unreal Engine 5, is expected to be released on PC, consoles and mobile phones.

The story of "Alien Ring" is set in the city of Hetero, a city full of supernatural phenomena. Players will play the role of the first "unlicensed" "phenomenon hunter" and join the antique shop "Ebony" that accepts civilian phenomenon commissions to maintain its turnover, and explore the mysteries of various cities with other partners with different personalities and extraordinary abilities.

The game contains some supernatural elements, as well as some common elements of new ghost stories such as commissioned investigations and abnormal shelters.

The official game description states:We hope to reduce the fatigue of open-world exploration, with the focus on "shaping the immersion in urban life".The game uses urban management gameplay to increase the fun. Players can earn funds by running shops and then build their own urban life.

According to feedback from some industry insiders and players,The gameplay mechanics of Alien Rings feel like a two-dimensional version ofGTA》。

The game contains many classic GTA elements, the most typical of which is the urban background setting. The streets, buildings, and transportation networks in the city are all presented to the players. In addition, the driving gameplay of the game is also full of GTA style, including some physical effects and landscape elements, and it also supports multi-perspective switching.

In order to increase the realism of the urban scenes, a special system for purchasing houses has been set up.The production team once mentioned that in order to make the city scenes in the game realistic and vivid enough, they specially studied urban planning.

The game’s core selling point is “the presentation of a seamless big world”, and the actual game demo video presents some very natural scene switches in a one-shot format.

It is worth mentioning that the production team of "Alien Ring", Hotta Studio, had previously developed "Fantasy Westward Journey".

"Fantasy Westward Journey" was officially launched in 2018, and the first test was started two years later, followed by an iteration of art and technology.

Therefore, the Hotta Studio team members have rich development experience, and many of them are particularly good at UE4 development.

As a game developed based on the UE5 engine, the actual machine demonstration of "Alien Ring" uses the core technology of UE5. Compared with "Fantasy Westward Journey", the technical level has also been improved.