Supermassive Games’ latest trailer for the upcoming Directive 8020 caters to PlayStation 5 Pro users. The latest look showcases the game’s signature cinematic style with PS5 Pro-exclusive goodies, including advanced ray tracing, hyper-realistic lighting and dynamic shadows that reveal and conceal lurking threats as you roam the Cassiopeia.
Per PlayStation Blog, Studio Technical Director Will Burdon goes through some of the upgrades utilizing the PS5 Pro to “help deepen the tension, clarity, and emotional impact at the heart of the game.” Among them is the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, which “intelligently enhances image detail and clarity frame by frame, allowing environments, character models, and subtle environmental storytelling to appear crisp and well-defined.”
Beyond visual enhancements, Directive 8020 was designed to make full use of the PlayStation 5’s features, namely the DualSense controller, which calls back to Until Dawn with its “Don’t Move” moments.
“We wanted interactions to feel instinctive in Directive 8020,” says Burdon.” You’ll instinctively reach for your flashlight in a pitch-black corridor. You’ll scan a room before entering a hatch. You’ll grab the wedge tool at the last possible second. All without taking your eyes off the danger around you.”
Directive 8020 launches on May 12 for PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. Pre-orders are now open.