Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree trailer reaction – everything we learned

Nicely, Bandai Namco has simply dropped the primary trailer for Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree with three minutes of gameplay footage, after saying final night time that as we speak was to be the day we lastly realized extra. Whereas we could have informed by leakers that the game may be coming out this week, what we actually acquired was a quick have a look at a number of the new stuff we will count on once we lastly return to the Lands Between. However what did we discover out, are we excited or disillusioned, and extra extra importantly, when can we play Shadow of the Erdtree?

Shadow of the Erdtree Trailer – what we realized

Beginning off with foreboding music and a subtitled voiceover it’s arduous to not be impressed with what we now have seen. Billed as a gameplay reveal trailer it’s honest to say we didn’t really see any out-and-out gameplay till later within the three-minute reveal, however once we did it regarded stunning. The lighting and fireplace results had been particularly spectacular, and whereas it was solely actually snippets of fights and kill photographs, it should make for some very fairly screenshots and movies.

We additionally acquired to see the brand new boss on the town, and we gained’t spoil it for you, you’ll be able to see it within the vid for your self however it’s each extraordinarily Elden Ring and nightmare-inducing.

Round three-quarters of 1,000,000 had been tuned in once we regarded and the video now has already been watched 1000’s of instances inside minutes.

The video concluded with an advert saying in the event you pre-order Shadow of the Erdtree you get a  Bonus Gesture: Ring of Miquella in addition to a second slide displaying the Collector’s Version with a 40-page hardcover artbook, a statue, and soundtrack all packaged in a beautiful field. We might be updating this web page shortly with costs and additional data.

Shadow of the Erdtree launch date

So we lastly have a sign of when the DLC that we now have been ready for for 2 years will drop. The trailer ended with the date twenty first June this yr with pre-orders obtainable now.

Paul McNally

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Paul McNally has been round consoles and computer systems since his dad and mom purchased him a Mattel Intellivision in 1980. He has been a outstanding video games journalist because the Nineteen Nineties, spending over a decade as editor of common print-based video video games and pc magazines, together with a market-leading PlayStation title printed by IDG Media.

Having frolicked as Head of Communications at an expert sports activities membership and dealing for high-profile charities such because the Nationwide Literacy Belief, he returned as Managing Editor in command of massive US-based expertise web sites in 2020.

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