Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree trailer response – all the things we realized

Nicely, Bandai Namco has simply dropped the primary trailer for Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree with three minutes of gameplay footage, after saying final night time that at this time was to be the day we lastly realized extra. Whereas we could have instructed by leakers that the sport could also be popping out this week, what we actually obtained was a short have a look at a few of the new stuff we will anticipate once we lastly return to the Lands Between. However what did we discover out, are we excited or disillusioned, and extra extra importantly, when can we play Shadow of the Erdtree?

Shadow of the Erdtree Trailer – what we realized

Beginning off with foreboding music and a subtitled voiceover it’s arduous to not be impressed with what now we have seen. Billed as a gameplay reveal trailer it’s honest to say we didn’t truly see any out-and-out gameplay till later within the three-minute reveal, however once we did it regarded lovely. The lighting and hearth results have been particularly spectacular, and whereas it was solely actually snippets of fights and kill pictures, it should make for some very fairly screenshots and movies.

We additionally obtained to see the brand new boss on the town, and we received’t spoil it for you, you possibly can see it within the vid for your self however it’s each extraordinarily Elden Ring and nightmare-inducing.

Round three-quarters of one million have been tuned in once we regarded and the video now has already been watched hundreds of occasions inside minutes.

The video concluded with an advert saying for those who pre-order Shadow of the Erdtree you get a  Bonus Gesture: Ring of Miquella in addition to a second slide displaying the Collector’s Version with a 40-page hardcover artbook, a statue, and soundtrack all packaged in a stunning field. We will probably be updating this web page shortly with costs and additional info.

Shadow of the Erdtree launch date

So we lastly have a sign of when the DLC that now we have been ready for for 2 years will drop. The trailer ended with the date twenty first June this yr with pre-orders out there now.

Paul McNally

Gaming Editor

Paul McNally has been round consoles and computer systems since his mother and father purchased him a Mattel Intellivision in 1980. He has been a distinguished video games journalist for the reason that Nineteen Nineties, spending over a decade as editor of in style print-based video video games and laptop magazines, together with a market-leading PlayStation title printed by IDG Media.

Having hung out as Head of Communications at an expert sports activities membership and dealing for high-profile charities such because the Nationwide Literacy Belief, he returned as Managing Editor answerable for massive US-based know-how web sites in 2020.

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