Death Stranding 2 is just a matter of weeks away now, and we got another look at the upcoming sequel to 2019's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Death Stranding during the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest Live 2025 showcase. With 𝓀Hideo Kojima taking the stage to introduce a new clip, there's still more yet to come in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest 2025 Schedule,🅺 with a dediജcated demonstration of Death Stranding 2 coming on June 9.

Officially titled Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, the follow-up looks set to be a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:truly ambitious adventure that will explore the theme澳洲幸运5开奖号🔯码历史查询: of connection with a greater emphasis on combat this time around. Reuniting with Sam played by Normanဣ Reedus, we've gotten to see some gameplay in actionꦍ, as well as some story details and cast reveals.

As one of several 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Hideo Kojima games in the works, we also have the likes of horror project OD and the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:mysterious "actio🐠n espionage" game, P꧙hysinct, to look forward to. But Death Stranding 2 is one of the biggest 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new games for 2025, and with its release date just around the corner, we won't have to wait much longer for this 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 game to arrive. While we await the next big 🐽look at the game, read on below for a full recap of everything we know so far about Death Stranding 2.

Death Stranding 2 news

• Death Stranding 2 technical director says tha𝐆t the jump fro▨m PS4 to PS5 "isn't so great," it's just "more efficient"
• Dark Souls 2 fans remind Death Stranding 2 director Hideo Kojima that he won’t be taking the DS2 acr🌄onym that eas﷽ily
• Legendary Metal Gear Solid artist Yoji Shinkawa pens exclusive Death Stranding 2 art for the latest issue of Edge Mag💧azine
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• Hideo Kojima once considered he might only "have 10 years" left to create new things, and he's given h𓃲is assistant "a USB stick♐ with all my ideas" as a kind of "will"
• Hideo ಌKojima is still hung up on his ex, as Death Stranding 2 features a 🎀Metal Gear Solid doppelganger the director says is the spitting image of Solid Snake
• Hideo Kojima seems to be testing Death Stranding 2,🌱 but it's not going well: "I fell asleep twice while on a deli🍨very and ran the vehicle into a cliff"
• Hideo𒁃 Kojima shows 9 seconds of De♊ath Stranding 2 title screen footage and warns that it's "very much temporary"

Death Stranding 2 release date

The Death Stranding 2 release date is set for June 26, 2025, with the date announced in a new 10-minute trailer shown at SXSW by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hideo Kojima.

Confirmation of a 澳洲幸运5开奖号🃏码历史查询:release date for Death Strand🎶ing 2: On the Beach came during Hideo Kojima's panel at . After revealing we could expect to see it arrive in 2025, the brand new trailer surprised audiences by revealing a June 26 launch date, alongside the announcement of a Collector's edition for the upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 exclusive.

Death Stranding 2 platforms

Death Stranding 2 has been confirmed for PS5, and Kojima Productions is yet tꦆo reveal whether it will arrive on other platforms.

When Death Stranding launched in 2019, it did so as a PS4 exclusive. Publisher 505 Games later helped bring Death Stranding to PC in 2020, while Death Stranding: Director's Cut was later brought to PS5 and PC Game Pass. Were we to speculate for a second: It's highly likely that Death Stranding 2 is being developed as a long-time PS5 exclusive, given how heavily involved PlayStation Studios is with its production, but there is every chance that it will come to PC eventually – given how heavily Sony continues to invest in the space outside of the core PlayStation ecosyst﷽em.

Death Stranding 2 pre-order

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach pre-orders are now live ahead of the June release date. Pre-orders went live as of March 17, which was originally confirmed at the SWSX panel, where we got our firstℱ look at the Death Stranding 2: On the B♉each Collector's Edition, with .

The Collector's Edition is priced at $229.99 and will include a digital game download, collector's box, 48-hour Early Access, a 15inch Magellan Man Statue, a 3inch Dollman Figurine, a letter from Hideo Kojima, and art cards. Y💙ou also bag yourself a myriad of in-game items, including various weapons, cosmetic patches, and gear.

The Digital Deluxe Edition has a $79.99 price tag and includes 48-hour Early Access and in-game items including an early🐲 unlock of a machine🎉 gun, along with pre-order bonuses such as the custom Hologram of a Quokka, and other gear-based items.

The standard digital edition costs $69.99, and the pre-order bonus for all editions includes the full game alongside the Quokka Hologram early unlock, and the Battle, Boost, and Bokka power skelet🎃ons for Sam.

Death Stranding 2 trailer

Kojima Productions revealed the first Death Stranding 2 trailer at The Game Awards 2022. The four-minute long teaser trailer didn'tꦗ show any direct gameplay, but it did give us a sense of how the world and characters have changed since Sam Porter Bridges removed his Cuff links and severed his connection with the Bridges corporation. Naturally, there's a lot to unpack in here, and Death Strand💃ing 2 director Hideo Kojima teases that "You've just seen the tꦏrailer, and I've put a lot of things inside, so I want you to talk about it and find details in it."

澳ꦰ洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:We also got some new Death Stranding 2 f🎶ootage during the 2024 Tokyo Game Show. In Part 1 (which you ▨can see for yourself down below) we meet Fragile again and are introduced to the new character Tarman. Tarman is voiced by none other tha✤n Mad Max director George Miller, which is super cool. We also get a closer look at a submarine that we'll be using in-game.

In we see a clip of two young girls discussing their past and one of their pregnancies. The two characters are introduced as Tomorrow and Rainy. Tomorrow 🌟is voiced by none other than Elle Fanning. Although, in this clip not much gameplay is shown and it's unclear how we'll be working with the two in the future as of right now.

shows us Heartman again, and is very interesting as it's filled with eerie vibes. However, Part 4 is one of the m♉ost exciting new clips, as it shows off the game's new photo mode. The teaser demonstrates how characters will pose and react to the camera, making all your photos look more polished and cool. Personally, we can't wait to get our hands on൲ it!

An extensive 10-minute pre-order trailer dropped at the SXSW March 2025 panel with Hideo Koji༒ma (which you can watch below). In it, we see some story💖 hints and various clips of the world, including shots of different vehicles in action, and a lengthy look at the cast, as Sam is seen traversing various climates and landscapes as he transports boxes (and even at one point a person) across the world. You can watch the full trailer below to get a feel for what's in store.

Death Stranding 2 screenshots

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With these Death Stranding 2 screenshots, you can get a better look than ever before at the weird, dangerous world that Kojima Productions is crafting for this long-awaited sequel. While the natural draw is some of the A-list talent Hideo Kojima has drawn to this project, these screenshots also show off some of😼 the larger-than-life environments and combat encounters we'll experience in the final game. Be sure to scroll through the gallery abওove to see them all.

Death Stranding 2 engine

Death Stranding 2 will be powered by Decima, the proprietary game engine created by Guerrilla Games. The studio's engine is behind Horizon Zero Dawn, Horizon Forbidden West, ওand the original Death Stranding, and has helped set new benchmarks for visual fidelity and the implementation of high-dynamic-range lighting on PS4 and PS5.

It has been confirmed that while Kojima Productions is leading development of Death Stranding 2, Guerrilla will support the studio for all things Decima. The Performance Capture seen in the Death Stranding 2 trailer was completed with assistance from the PlayStation Studios Visual Arts group, with the uncannily realistic digital humans powered by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Epic Games' MetaHuman technology.

Death Stranding 2 cast

Hideo Kojima has announced the first run of actors ♚set to form the Death Stranding 2 cast. As with the original game, Death Stranding 2 is packed with talent from across the video game and film industries.

While Kojima Productions is yet to unveil the full cast, we know that Norman Reedus, Lea Seydoux, and Troy Baker are returning following their first outing𝓰 in 2019, while Elle Fanning (Super 8), Shioli Kutsuna (Deadpool 2), and director George Miller 𓄧have also joined the cast.

Read the full Death Stranding 2 cast list below:

• Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges
• Lea Seydoux as Fragile
• Troy Baker as Higgs Monaghan
• Elle Fanning as Tomorrow
• Shioli Kutsuna as Rainy
• George Miller as Tarman
• Fatih Akin as Dollman
• Darren Jacobs as Heartman
•  Alissa Jung as Lucy
• Luca Marinelli as Neil

Death Stranding 2 story

Should we have connected? That's the prevailing message of the first Death Stranding 2 trailers, and there's so many weird and wonderful things happening throughout the footage we've seen so far hat you'll twist your mind in knots trying to figure it🅰 all out. We see what appears to be an older Sam Porter, a fully-healed Fragile, and an extinction entity cult whose leader is wearing Amelie's necklace and haircut, and hiding their face with Higgs' signature death mask.

There's mention of a new private corporation, APAC (Automated Public Assistance Company), more overt nautical themes, and a potential Fragile Express replacement called Drawbridge – which incorporates 🐟both a 'rope' and 'stick' motif. There's also very real indications that we'll be dealing with multiple alternate real🌸ities connected via the beach, with potential variants of Sam Porter, BB, Lou, Fragile, and others to contend with.

Set to follow Sam and his companions as they "set out on a new journey to save humanity from 🐎extinction", the pre-order trailer also s𒆙ets the scene for the adventure to come:

"Eleven months after the birth of the UCA, servers line the beach", reads the text that introduc🅰es the pre-order trailer. "Deliveries have been automated. A plate gate connects the continents. A new ship rides the tar currents. Currents that shake the earth. A mysterious faction spreads. Chiralium warps the enviroﷺnment. The unending sixth extinction".

The mention of Chiralium is notable since it directly connects to the beac𝔍h, and is present throughout the atmosphere of the world - how or why it's warping the environment, though, is something we'll have to discover for ourselves - perhaps it connects to the theory that we may see alternate realities. There's certainly lots to unpack from the trailer, and we're curious to see how it'll all come together.

In an interview in issue 411 of Edge magazine, Kojima also spoke on the thematic direction of the Death Stranding series which will no doubt continue to factor into Death Stranding 2, explaining that while "the loss of my fa﷽ther was a major theme in the Metal ♛Gear series", Death Stranding "looks in the other direction" by giving us the parent's persp🍒ective "looking towards the child".

Interestingly, prior to dropping more detailed trailers, Kojima revealed that the entire story that was initially put together had been scrapped after the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at The Game Awards 2022, the director and writer said this of the Death Stranding 2 story: "I had the story written before the pandemic. But after experiencing the pandemic, I just rewrote the whole story from scratch." Kojima then added this comment with a smile, speaking to his uncanny ability to predict events through games like Metal Gear Solid 2 and Death Stranding, "I also didn't want to predict any more futures, so I rewrote it."

Kojima also later spoke with Edge Magazine about how isolation pushed him towards games that "don't alr𒆙eady exist in the world", and spoke about how it felt as though people were no longer connectౠed - connection looks set to be a big theme in the upcoming sequel.

Death Stranding 2 gameplay

The official for Death Stranding 2 shed light on a few details on what's in store for the s🌞eဣquel. Described as an "open-world action-adventure game" played from a third-person perspective, it's said that "the player must deliver cargo, overcome enemies both human and otherworldly" and "explore a post🐓-apocalyptic world by foot and vehicle".

Not unlike the first game, Death Stranding 2 will also feature "asynchronous multiplayer", where the 🔯creations or actions of other players "will become visible and useable" to you once you've connected to areas of the map.

The above 1💧0-minute𓆏 pre-order trailer gave which debuted at SXSW gave us another extensive look at Death Stranding 2, which showed off some of the otherworldly e♕nemies, means of traversal, and characters we'll be meet🔯ing in the sequel.

Speaking with Edge magazine in issue 411, lead level designer Hiroaki Yoshiike also shed more light on the combat of Death Stranding 2, sharing that Kojima wanted the sequel to have "a 💧clearer focus on combat" by giving players a "range of approaches", including Metal Gear Solid-style stealth. Yoshiike goes on to add that we can expect to make use of three main approaches: "stealth, direct combat, or avoiding encounters en🍬tirely by navigating rougher terrains, and taking the road less trave💟lled".

In the Edge interview, Kojima also drew parallels between Death Stranding 2 and James Came🌳ron's alien sequel, since On the Beach is set to introduce battles "to give it this new dimension".

Kojima also compared Dea🅘th Stranding 2 to the Easy Ind𝓰ia company, while explaining that the first game was more representative of the Silk Road era. Interestingly, in order to 𒉰"conjure the era of the East India Company when resources could move freely around the world," Kojima also hinted that it will be "represented by the prevalence of weapons" in the sequel, which certainly marries with the more combat-focused direction.

Here's why we hope that Death Stranding 2 is a smarter, leaner adventure than its predecessor – with a wider focus on exploration and social connection.