Biomutant Out Now for PS4, Xbox One, and PC - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 25 May 2021 / 1,401 Views
After a long wait publisher THQ Nordic and developer Experiment 101 have released the open-world action RPG, Biomutant, for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Biomutant is also playable on the Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 via backward compatibility. The PlayStation 5 version of the game runs in 1080p resoltuion at 60 frames per second. Native 4K has been disabled on the PS5 version due to stability and performance issues and will remain deactivated for the release version. On the Xbox Series X the game runs in native 4K resolution at 60 frames per second with Dynamic Resolution.
View the release trailer below:
Here is an overview of the game:
Biomutant is an open-world, post-apocalyptic kung-fu fable RPG, with a unique martial arts styled combat system allowing you to mix melee, shooting and mutant ability action.
Key Features:
- A New Take on Third-Person Combat – The martial arts style combat system allows you maximum freedom of movement and agility while mixing shooting, melee and powers from your mutations. Learning new Wushu combat forms through progression and learning from masters you’ll meet, will constantly add to your choices and make sure combat never gets old.
- Evolve Your Gameplay – You’ll be able to re-code your genetic structure to change the way you look and play. This will of course affect your attributes and in addition to this, exposure to bio-contamination in the world will lead to physical mutations like mantis-claws and barbed tails, while exposure to radioactivity found in bunkers from the old world will affect your mind and unlock psi-mutations like telekinesis, levitation and more.
- Next Level of Crafting – You are totally free when crafting weapons. Mix and match parts to create your own unique 1H or 2H slash, crush and pierce melee weapons. Revolvers, rifles and shotguns and add modifications like cork-screws and battery-powered chainsaw modules to bio-contaminated sludge vials adding to your combat arsenal. There are even characters you’ll meet that’ll craft cool stuff for you, like bionic wings, a jump-pack and even let you modify your Automaton – the scrap-toy sidekick!
- Gear Up for Adventure – You are totally free when equipping your character. Not only when it comes to choosing weapons you created, but what type of gear you wear. Equip a gas-mask and an oxygen tank for exploring the Dead Zones, thermos-resistant clothes for venturing into cryonic areas or protective gear for taking on bio-contaminated creatures, the choice is up to you.
- Survive in a Vibrant Open World – You are free to explore the world and what lies beneath its surface, by foot, mech, jet-ski, air-balloon or area unique mounts. Explore the dying wildland, the tunnels and bunker networks of the underworld, and find your way up the mountains or out in the archipelago. There are lots of discoveries to be made, mysteries to unravel, creatures to confront and weird characters to meet in this vibrant and colorful world.
- An Unusual Story with an Unusual End – Your actions play a major part in the unfolding of a story where End is coming to the New World. A plague is ruining the land and the Tree-of-Life is bleeding death from its roots. The Tribes stand divided, in need of someone strong enough to unite them or bring them all down… You are guided through the world by a Storyteller that narrates every step of your journey, but it’s your actions and choices that’ll decide how your story of survival ends.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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a year or two ago, I was totally sold on this game...... but game now, vs when they were pitching it, are pretty differnt. Currently zero hype for it.
I'm about an hour or so into the game and while I'm not loving it overall, I like it and it's a solid 7/10 for me so far. Love the charm, love the look and feel, love the world, not too keen on the performance issues and I get the impression I may get fed up of this narrator telling me instead of showing.
Based on what it looked like leading up to release, that's pretty much exactly where it ended up looking for me. This is the sort of game that would have been a gex or Joe and Mac or something. you know, not AAA but still a middle-tier game. Single A game. maybe a B. How does that scale even work?
Yet another game that seemed like it had a ton of potential only to turn out to be a huge disappointment... :(
Yeah a lot of reviewers had issues with the core gameplay but maybe they'll fix some of it with patches.
