Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Studio has finally lifted the lid on the price and release date of the long awaited The Tomorrow Children. Though the game will be free-to-play at some point this year, fans can pick up an early access version of The Tomorrow Children for $20 (UK/EU prices yet to be announced).
The Tomorrow Children early access begins September
This early version grants you access to a bunch of extra content which will undoubtedly become paid DLC for the free users in due course, including:
- Special costume
- PSN avatar pack
- 1000 Freeman dollars
- Eagle Crop. Jetpack
- Lv1 Arms License
- Lv1 Tools License
- Bourgeoisie papers
Find out more about The Tomorrow Children early access pack
So what is The Tomorrow Children all about?
Based in an alternative Soviet Union, set in the not too distant future, you are given the order of returning civilization to a hospitable world. You gather resources, build towns and defend your townspeople from monsters. Whilst this mixture of gameplay might not sound amazing to everyone, The Tomorrow Children is definitely set to change the mechanics of games forever!
Voxel cone, ray tracing and global illumination are terms not many of us will have heard of, unless you are a games developer or 3D Modeler! But in layman’s terms the lighting and shadows in TTC will render like real world physics, with light bouncing off every surface as if it is its own entity, reflecting that light to create a realistically lit world. This technology is on the same scale of Until Dawn’s facial mapping, which has allowed Supermassive Games to make beautiful looking characters. It’s great to see Sony taking the next step into creating realistic looking worlds, and now with the PS4 Neo looming just around the corner it’s an exciting time to see what can be achieved with that extra bit of power.
The Tomorrow Children will initially release on September 6 in the US for those buying the early access pack. The free-to-play version release date has yet to be announced.