007The Big 10
STORIES EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT
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We’ve
sweated
over the
specs for
months. Now,
finally, some
developers
are ready to
talk and tease how PlayStation 5 will
change the way we play games. This
issue we sit down with Martha Is
Dead developer LKA’s studio head,
Luca Dalcò, to discuss how the
power of Sony’s next-gen hardware
is being harnessed to make horror
truly terrifying.
“PS5’s specifications are
incredibly exciting – particularly for
us is the additional graphical power
and inclusion of ray-tracing
architecture,” says Dalcò as we dig
into how PS5 will offer higher visual
fidelity. “Our studio has come a long
way over four years and Martha Is
Dead will strive for photorealism.”
The developer has always placed
believability at the heart of its
games, and PlayStation 5 will make
that more achievable. “We’re excited
to see next-generation hardwareincoming to support us bringing our
vision to players,” adds Dalcò.
What PlayStation 5’s graphical
boost over PS4 means is we’ll be
seeing incredibly detailed textures
in our new games. Dalcò explains:
“We worked a lot in order to use the
highest-resolution textures as
possible also on PS4; nonetheless,
PS5 will allow us to use an incredible
Texel density, up to 4096px/m – that
means the visual will be fully detailed
also in higher resolutions. It’s one of
the most important advances in
visual capability that we were
waiting for!”NEXT-GEN STORY
Dalcò tells us that a high level of
graphical detail – the studio wants
to make Martha Is Dead one of the
year’s most realistic games – is
crucial to telling the game’s story,
particularly as it is designed to
deeply unsettle us.
“Martha Is Dead is a story, and
videogames are the medium.
Whatever medium you choose to tell
a story, you must harness all of its
attributes to capture the imaginationHorror gets
photoreal on
PlayStation 5
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looks very dead
in our exclusive
images... but is she?