Thanks to Bandai Namco Entertainment DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2 by Larian Studios is heading the Playstation 4 and Xbox One in August 2018.
DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2 gives players the freedom of a sandbox RPG encouraging improvisation and experimentation with rules made to be bent rather than followed. The game takes place in the world of Rivellon where players can go anywhere, talk to anyone (living, dead, or non-human) and fully interact with the game world like no other RPG. The game features six unique origin characters with full-fledged backstories, personalities and questlines:
- Red Prince – A haughty but heroic lizard noble
- Sebille – An elven assassin
- Lohse – An possessed musician
- Ifan ben-Mezd – A mercenary ex-soldier
- Beast – A rebel-turned-pirate dwarf
- Fane – An undead member of the long-forgotten Eternal race
“This is an incredible opportunity for us to work with Larian Studios who has already shown its talented work through the previous games” said Hervé Hoerdt, Vice President of Marketing & Digital at BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe. “We are extremely pleased to bring this outstanding title to our lineup by offering new epic adventures to console gamers with the deepest RPG worlds ever created”
“It was very important to us to have DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2 distributed by a team that understands how to bring RPGs to a broad audience.” said Swen Vincke, Founder and CEO of Larian Studios. “With Dark Souls and The Witcher, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment demonstrated they know how to do exactly that and so I’m very happy we’ll have their support.”
