While indie developer Motion Blur has been relatively quiet about its upcoming title, Black Slate, since the game’s announcement back in July 2024, the studio has been showcasing the title at CES 2025, and you can check out below around 3 and a half minutes of gameplay footage.
Going by the video, some of the influences of seminal games like Metal Gear Solid are evident, with quite a few of the title’s designs seemingly coming right out of the pages of Yoji Shinkawa’s art book. The video also indicates that the game’s visual fidelity definitely a high priority oft he studio. There are lavishly-designed rooms with incredible levels of reflections all over the place.
The video also gives us a brief look at what we can expect from Black Slate when it comes to gameplay. The game will be a third-person shooter where the player will make use of cover to take down enemies that range from regular soldiers to all-out demons with telekinetic powers.
A variety of weapons are also shown off, from the humble assault rifle, to a strange gun that seems to shoot electricity.
Black Slate will have players taking on the role of a military “legend”, according to the game’s original announcement, and will set out on a mission to uncover the truth about a cataclysmic event, and while they’re at it, also rescue a scientist that might be somehow linked to these events.
Alongside Metal Gear Solid, the studio has previously also cited other games as inspiration, including The Last of Us and Uncharted, when it comes to how the games were developed, and how they influenced gameplay mechanics going forward.
Black Slate is currently in development on PC, and doesn’t yet have a release date. The game is being developed by making use of Unreal Engine 5.