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PlayerUnknown Talks About The Mysterious ‘Prologue’
'Prologue' is the next project from Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene. Here's what he's saying about it, and why it isn't 'PUBG 2'.
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There isn’t yet much indication of what kind of game Prologue will be. But there’s a visual fidelity to the teaser that sets it immediately apart from PUBG, which had never made its name on photorealistic graphics. That technical leap is part of what Greene wanted to do with this game: Prologue refers to the beginning of a longer process for PlayerUnknown productions, a way of testing and building new tech for something bigger.
“This is the first step in the journey for me,” he says. “We set up the studio, and founded it with the goal of experimenting with new technology. Now we’re taking that first step towards building new technologies, and Prologue is the first step into the new world for us. I wanted the chance to deliver something new on a global scale.”
“I’ve got some pretty big dreams about what I want to achieve, that I’m not quite ready to achieve. It will require some new tech.”
“With a lot of other creators, they’ve been put in a box”, says Greene. “I’ve been told go and create, and we’ll support you.”
“It's so much responsibility, I really don't want to mess this up. But these opportunities don't come along very often, you don't get a chance to launch a global IP every day. “
“One of my dreams is to create worlds at scale,” says Greene. “Hundreds of kilometers by hundreds kilometers, with thousands of people, and these are hugely difficult problems to solve”.
“I'm doing this to share my experiences with people and give them cool gameplay experiences,” he says. “With PUBG I have all these people coming up to me and telling me their stories, and it inspires me to affect people in that way. It's humbling that I can do that, and given the chance to do that again.”
