{"id":124906,"date":"2022-05-06T08:58:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124906"},"modified":"2022-05-06T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T06:58:19","slug":"district-9-director-helping-develop-new-cyberpunk-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124906-district-9-director-helping-develop-new-cyberpunk-shooter","title":{"rendered":"District 9 director helping develop new cyberpunk shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off The Grid is Gunzilla Games\u2019 all-new battle royale and is set to release in 2023 on PS5, Xbox Series S\/X, and PC.<\/p>\n<p>The teaser trailer reveals that Neill Blomkamp, the South African film director behind the sci-fi films District 9 and Elysium, will lead the shooter\u2019s narrative design.<\/p>\n<p>Gunzilla Games has also recruited Altered Carbon author Richard K. Morgan as a scriptwriter, and his work on Crysis 2 will prove invaluable to Off The Grid&#8217;s development.<\/p>\n<p>Off The Grid takes place on a dystopian tropical island, and the teaser trailer indicates that cybernetic augmentations will form a part of the core gameplay experience.<\/p>\n<p>The gameplay will primarily involve 150-player PvP battles, but you will also be able to complete PvE storyline missions \u201cusing the same map inhabited by other players in real-time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Off The Grid will feature another unique gameplay mechanic \u2014 an individual player\u2019s story choices will also influence every other player\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eq6iqAgZ_Mk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124898-the-biggest-titles-coming-in-may\">The biggest titles coming in May<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunzilla Games has revealed more details about its upcoming Unreal Engine 5 battle royale Off The Grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":124907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[25557,26134,3699,26133,26135,25982],"class_list":["post-124906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-battle-royale","tag-gunzilla-games","tag-neill-blomkamp","tag-off-the-grid","tag-richard-k-morgan","tag-unreal-engine-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124910,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124906\/revisions\/124910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}