Coming from LightSpeed LA, Last Sentinel is an open-world sci-fi game with post-apocalyptic Tokyo as its setting. Unveiled during The Game Awards 2023, Last Sentinel stands out as one of the biggest games revealed there in terms of its trailer’s production value.
LightSpeed LA is headed by ex-Rockstar developer Steve C. Martin with the GTA and RDR series in his portfolio. The team also includes devs with games like The Last of Us, Jedi: Fallen Order, and Uncharted in their repertoire. This Irvine, California-based studio is owned by China-based LightSpeed Studios—the ones behind the wildly successful PUBG Mobile.
From the looks of it, LightSpeed LA is going all out to create a new IP with Last Sentinel. The dystopian sci-fi setting of post-global warming Tokyo seems to be a good step in that direction. “Our expectation is this an immersive world that fans can fall in love with,” Martin intimated. “It is an open world game and it is also strongly narrative based. We are building out the world to make it believable.”
Last Sentinel is being developed in Unreal Engine 5—employing most of its cutting-edge features or so it seems. However, The announcement trailer is a pre-rendered cinematic, and there was no gameplay shown. Nevertheless, it does a fantastic job of depicting the world Last Sentinel has to offer.
The Tokyo we will see in this game has been ravaged by global warming—parts of the city are now under sea level, held up only by the protection of tall walls. Timeline-wise, it’s approximately 70 years after the rise of floodwaters caused by global warming.
“Global warming has continued, sadly, and it’s post-environmental disaster. This is a kind of salvaged Tokyo, with a giant sea wall and a gigantic new city built on top of Tokyo,” Martin shared. “You have this real juxtaposition. Tokyo as we know it today, and the future Tokyo. It’s old world versus new world.”
The release window of Last Sentinel has not yet been announced.
