Immortals of Aveum made its debut at The Game Awards, but its trailer didn’t have much in it. That has now been remedied in its first full trailer, which shows off the magical first-person shooter and its release date. Immortals of Aveum is releasing on July 20 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
Immortals of Aveum is a single-player adventure that has players controlling a character named Jak as he teams up with “an elite order of battlemages” called the Immortals to stop the millennium-long Everwar and save the realms. This manifests in the trailer, as it has a fair bit of cutscenes.
However, it also contains a bunch of gameplay and demonstrates how players wield their different spells and blast them as if they were magical guns. The team has had some experience with shooters, as Bret Robbins, the founder and CEO of Ascendant Studios, was also the creative director for the first Dead Space and was also on Sledgehammer Games’ recent Call of Duty games (aside from Vanguard). Robbins said he came up with the idea for Aveum while working on Call of Duty when he looked at a battlefield and imagined it being a fantastical setting instead.
Check out the Immortals of Aveum trailer below:
Aveum will have more than 25 spells and 80 skills players can use, in addition to all sorts of tech trees and items that boost a certain part of Jak’s loadout. Jak is also a special kind of person called a Triarch who can wield three types of magic, which will give players variety in how they slay their foes. Red magic is more violent and destructive. Blue magic lets players manipulate the environment and matter. Green magic gives users control over enemies and objects through misdirection, illusions, or binding objects in place.
There are also a fair bit of traversal abilities, too, like a double jump, teleport dodge, hover, and lash that players can shoot out to rope in enemies. Players can even use these abilities to revisit older levels to get more items and skulk around for hidden areas and mini-dungeons with special bosses.
The FAQ also explains that there will be no microtransactions, but it’s not clear if there will be more substantial post-launch DLC, as it wasn’t confirmed or denied. It also won’t be on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One in order to “to deliver maximum fidelity, performance, and a cutting edge cinematic campaign experience true to the Ascendant team’s vision.”
Those who pre-order the game will get the Purified Arclight Sigil, which boosts the damage of certain spells. The standard version is $69.99 and the deluxe edition is $79.99. This extra $10 nets players a host of new perks and items, as shown in the above picture.
While most of the game stayed secret, the release date leaked out early. Twitter user billibil-kun, who has consistently been accurate with their PlayStation Plus leaks, noted last week of Aveum‘s July 20 date.
