Watch 20 Minutes of ‘Stormland’ Gameplay

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Stormland, the upcoming single player adventure from Insomniac Games and Oculus, came to PAX West this past weekend where the public got a chance to go hands-on with the open world game for the first time.

The demo, presented by Dutch YouTubers Cas and Chary, takes you through a number of mission styles as part of the tutorial. Basic missions include collecting alloy to build android upgrades, building your first weapon, collecting fruit for energy, and shooting down the patches of flying drones, and even a few land-based robots that threaten you as you hop from island to island.

The game’s locomotion scheme includes smooth-forward walking, climbing, gliding, and gliding out over cloudy ‘slip streams’, which accelerate you from one rocky outcrop to another. Everything in the game appears to be climbable, making it an exercise in getting a good vertical vantage point not only so you can complete missions like finding high-up positioning beacons, but also so you scope out the area and glide from spot to spot.

Image courtesy Insomniac Games

The environment appears to be partially destructible, with fallen enemies and exploded barrels offering up their own resources which are automatically collected once you get near them. We haven’t seen much of the crafting system yet, although Insomniac has maintained it’s a fairly important part of the game.

Stormland seems to offer both single-handed and two-handed weapon grip styles, and also provides a hand-held shield. We only get to see two real weapon types before the demo ends with a pretty nasty-looking android, the optional single/two-handed SMG and an explosive grenade, all of which can be holstered to your body.

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The Stormland PAX demo certainly looks like the highly polished, open world experience we were hoping for, which is slated to release exclusively on Oculus Rift at some point in 2019.

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  • Looks great. Will get that. Hope it supports the Pimax Wide FOV too.

    • Raphael

      It will remain just on octopus won’t it? ReVive doesn’t count.

  • Raphael

    My favourite Dutch VR reviewers!

  • Gonzalo Novoa

    This games looks amazing, I can’t wait to put my hands on it.

  • KUKWES

    Looks cool obnoxious streamers.

    • Raphael

      obnoxious commenter

      • jj

        look who’s talking…
        his comment was legit, yours was trying to insight anger and confrontation.
        Another example of why you are a troll.

        • Raphael

          jj Raphael • 2 minutes ago
          look who’s talking…
          his comment was legit, yours was trying to insight anger and confrontation.
          Another example of why you are a troll.

  • Lucidfeuer

    Looks like Lone Echo has inspired lots of studios. Also looks cool, well it’s Insomniac.

  • MatBrady

    That was 19 minutes of, “Can someone move the cursor from the centre of the fucking screen please?”

  • HybridEnergy

    She’s so freaking annoying.

    • Wayne Hinkel

      I think she’s cute, but…yeah, please move that damn cursor!

    • Jochen Heistermann

      Its the voice I guess, similar to Lucy Chan from Facebook, who has even higher voice and talks more exciting, what make ears ring.

      • HybridEnergy

        Yes, I do love her enthusiasm. I’m just saying the pitch and sound is so annoying. lol

  • Konops

    What is she using to move in the world? joystic? or is it automatic movement?