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PS4
Adventure
| Also for: | PS4 | ||
| Viewed: | 3D Third-person, over the shoulder | Genre: | Adventure |
| Media: | Download (also on Blu-Ray) | Arcade origin: | No |
| Developer: | Giant Squid Studios | Soft. Co.: | Giant Squid Studios |
| Publishers: | 505 Games
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Released: | Aug 2016
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Summary
As far as modern science can tell we came from the sea. Eons ago our ancestors left the salt water cradle and began the struggle to live on land. Some believe that this is why we, as a species, are drawn to the oceans, the salt in our blood calls to the salt of our planet's vast bodies of water.
ABZU, Sumerian for Ocean (Ab) Deep (zu), tells the tale of a mysterious diver exploring a primordial ocean full of life and endless, almost relentless, beauty.
The game is all about exploration and interacting with the ocean landscape around you.
Developer Giant Squid, a small team lead by Matt Nava (the art director behind TGC's Journey), have crafted something simple in its aesthetic. Clean textures and models with bold lines are beautifully rendered with otherworldly lighting. Natural animation that is both graceful and precise reflects the ways in which real marine creatures move.
ABZU's story is told through its environments, as well as murals on the walls of certain structures. There is no spoken dialogue and because of this the story is open to interpretation. So, yes, Matt Nava's history with Journey shows through a little, but that's no bad thing. There is a shared feeling of pilgrimage, or a journey not just through a landscape, but also through emotion and understanding.
ABZU, Sumerian for Ocean (Ab) Deep (zu), tells the tale of a mysterious diver exploring a primordial ocean full of life and endless, almost relentless, beauty.
The game is all about exploration and interacting with the ocean landscape around you.
Developer Giant Squid, a small team lead by Matt Nava (the art director behind TGC's Journey), have crafted something simple in its aesthetic. Clean textures and models with bold lines are beautifully rendered with otherworldly lighting. Natural animation that is both graceful and precise reflects the ways in which real marine creatures move.
ABZU's story is told through its environments, as well as murals on the walls of certain structures. There is no spoken dialogue and because of this the story is open to interpretation. So, yes, Matt Nava's history with Journey shows through a little, but that's no bad thing. There is a shared feeling of pilgrimage, or a journey not just through a landscape, but also through emotion and understanding.