Electronic Arts, Koei Tecmo, and Omega Force have revealed their new looking sport. Wild Hearts can be out there on PCs through Origin, Steam, and Epic Games Store, in addition to Fifth-generation consoles—specifically the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X—on February 17, 2023.

Omega Force had been recognized for beforehand engaged on the Toukiden sequence of looking video games. The sport’s administrators Kotaro Hirata and Takuto Edagawa revealed in an interview with IGN that the staff determined to create a brand new IP and work with Electronic Arts to make the brand new title extra interesting to the worldwide viewers.

The first belongings for Wild Hearts already present that it’ll have many variations from Toukiden. The earlier sequence had gamers struggle towards Oni (demons), whereas the monsters in Wild Hearts can be commonly known as Kemono (the Japanese phrase for beasts). Toukiden additionally had an emphasis on utilizing religious powers to destroy and lock the demons’ physique components. The key gameplay system in Wild Hearts will contain a singular shapeshifting machine known as Karakuri (the Japanese phrase for equipment).

The English and Japanese introduction pages for Wild Hearts additionally reveal that the Kemono can have totally different names between the language variations. The iconic wolf, Deathstalker, can be recognized in Japan as Rasetsu (Japanese phrase for Rakshasa). The boar-like Kingtusk can be Yamaugachi (mountain piercer), the hearth ape Lavaback will develop into Jigokuzaru (hell monkey), and the Earthbreaker can be named Kuninarashi (nation flattener) in Japan.

Find the primary trailer and official press launch for Wild Hearts proper beneath. The looking sport can have voiceovers in not solely English but additionally Japanese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. While the sport will solely have as much as 3-people multiplayer, it’ll assist cross-play throughout all platforms. Electronic Arts and Koei Tecmo will publish an prolonged gameplay trailer for the brand new title on October 5.

Today, Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) and KOEI TECMO formally unveiled WILD HEARTS™, a brand new sort of looking sport that includes distinctive crafting mechanics, coming February 17, 2023 to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC through Origin, Steam and Epic Game Store. Published below the EA Originals label and developed by Omega Force, the staff behind the favored WARRIORS sequence, WILD HEARTS whisks gamers away on an epic journey set in fantasy feudal Japan. There, they’ll battle towards big nature-infused beasts known as Kemono with the assistance of Karakuri, refined mechanisms crafted from a misplaced, historic know-how.

WILD HEARTS takes place in Azuma, a fantasy panorama impressed by feudal Japan, that’s now rampaged by the as soon as peaceable Kemono – altering their surroundings at the price of residents’ lives. The Kemono vary from plant-infused squirrels to the huge Kingtusk wild boar. After a dreadful struggle with the winter wolf Deathstalker, gamers develop into bearers of a life-sustaining know-how and are compelled to revive steadiness throughout the area.

In WILD HEARTS, gamers journey via Azuma as a lone wolf or pack-hunt with as much as two mates because of the sport’s co-op and crossplay options throughout all platforms. Players can develop their battle plans and go on particular missions whereas pack looking, be part of different hunters on the planet or tackle Kemono on their very own. The sport will function voice overs in English, Japanese, French, Italian, German and Spanish.