The trailer for Death Stranding has finally been unveiled, giving gamers a definite release date, and a closer look at the game mechanics. However, after watching the trailer, there is still one question on everyone’s mind – Just how big is the world of Death Stranding?
Right now, it is difficult to say for sure how big the size of the Death Stranding map is, with previously released trailers all set in similar looking locations. But in the latest trailer, we are finally given a look a several new areas in the game, such as a forest and a snowy mountain.
It is the snowy mountain in particular that Hideo Kojima spoke about in a post on Twitter, trying to explain the scope of the world you will be traversing around.
In his tweet, Kojima writes, “In the new Death Stranding trailer, there’s a scene Sam sets up the rope. The snow mountain is not the set, the path exists and you can actually go climb up the mountain. The snow mountain appears in the beginning of the trailer is exactly what it is.”
It seems that mountain we see in the far distance in the first shot is the same mountain that Sam is scaling in the trailer, making the dimensions of the map significantly larger than what was expected. This is all incredibly impressive.
It will be interesting to see exactly how big the Death Stranding world actually is. Horizon Zero Dawn has already proved that the Decima engine is more than capable of managing a vast open world while maintaining incredible graphics.
Death Stranding will be released on November 8, 2019, on the PlayStation 4.
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