Okay I am not kidding when I say that Attack on Titan 3 is genuinely my most anticipated video game release of the year. I mean, yeah I’m still gonna play Grand Theft Auto VI, but I cannot overstate just how much I love Attack on Titan.
Attack on Titan 3 was originally unveiled during Summer Game Fest last month, and while we don’t have a set release date just yet, we do know that it’ll be out this winter. You can check out the new gameplay trailer down below:
Just like the second game, you’ll be able to create a custom character to play as throughout the entire story. You’re a nameless hero who joins up with the Scouts, which means you can hang out with Eren during these Fire Emblem-like teatime sessions, gather resources needed to upgrade gear and complete quests for characters like Hange, and zip around like Spider-Man while slashing away at Titans. Admittedly I wasn’t a huge fan of the custom character formula in the second game, but I’m starting to come around on it now. If this means I can have tea with Mikasa and talk about our problematic feelings for Eren, then I’m all for that.
The moment-to-moment gameplay will look very familiar to anyone who’s played the first two games from Koei Tecmo and Omega Force. You can walk around on foot, but largely you’ll want to use your ODM gear to fly around to fight the Titans. Just like in the anime, you can slash at their weak points, and try to weaken them before going for the neck.
You can also form a squad comprising of various characters from the game, go on scouting missions, and expand humanity’s territory.
The biggest addition to this game, of course, is that it’ll include all of the story content from the final season, the Paradis/Marley arc. If you haven’t already watched the anime or read the manga, you might want to do that first before even watching the trailer or playing this game. You could also just experience the story for yourself through this game, though I wouldn’t necessarily recommend that.
Here’s a funny story: back in 2016, I was at E3 with Twinfinite and we were so short-staffed that some of us had to take appointments for games that we may not have been very familiar with. I took the Koei Tecmo appointment for that year, where I’d get to ask questions about the newly announced Berserk game, play a bit of Nioh (I think that was playable that year), and also check out a new build of the first Attack on Titan game. And I knew nothing about Attack on Titan. A coworker told me to binge the entire first season the night before the appointment. An attempt at binging the season was made, but of course it failed, and I really wasn’t feeling the anime at the time.
I went into that appointment pretty much blind, and I’m pretty sure I asked some pretty freaking stupid questions that must’ve made me look silly to the developers and anyone who knows anything about the anime. Still, I enjoyed the game! The ODM combat was fantastic, and I can’t wait to jump back into Attack on Titan 3 this year.
Attack on Titan 3 will be released for PC and consoles this winter.
