New screenshots have been revealed of former Halo developer Bungie’s new sci-fi pseudo-MMO Destiny , showing off fancy cliché lense flares, a few new environments, some enemies and a couple of close-ups on a some of Destiny’s weapons as seen from a first person perspective.
Posted on on the official PlayStation Tumblr blog via Bungie.net, these new screenshots were posted in abundance, and all of them are very nice to look at. Sure, graphics aren’t everything to do with a videogame, but solid aesthetics definitely helps a game’s presentation, especially when there’s a tonal and compositional use of cold and warm colors to emphasize and give the illusion of depth without straightout using black.
Bungie’s Destiny was first announced last February in 2013 during Sony’s PlayStation 4 announcement. Being published by Activision, Destiny was pitched as an organic first-person shooter, where events or instances can happen randomly and encourage players to band together in order to overthrow the threat that happens to be messing things up (a similar concept to what Guild Wars 2 does).
In a post-apocalyptic setting, after what is referred to in-game as the “Golden Age”, humanity has been beaten, stomped and thrown into a corner to near extinction by what is called “the Collapse”. The only surviving remnants of humanity after the Collapse are those who are now living on Earth, thanks to the salvation brought on by what humanity calls “the travel”–a massive spherical structure that gave humanity the ability to transcend into the Golden Age in the first place. It stays hovering over the last civilization of humanity, and bestows great powers upon the “Guardians of the City” in order to protect the last of humanity.
The title is slated to launch worldwide on September 9 this year on the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. A PC version of Destiny is much sought after, but Bungie isn’t focusing on developing a PC version as of yet, but hopefully they will in the future. As it’s the beginning of the year, I have just under eight more months to save up for a PS4. Challenge accepted.
You can view Destiny’s new screenshots below.
