The Callisto Protocolis certainly one of 2022’s most highly-anticipated games. We’ve already received a good deal of details about the soon-to-be-released epic horror set in space, but Gamescom 2022 gave us something entirely unexpected; a brand new gameplay trailer with elements that some would describe as ‘gritty.’
Man of the hour, the creative director of The Callisto Protocol, Glen Schofield, took to the stage at Gamescom 2022 to thank fans for their positive response to the promotional material of the new title. He then introduced the new trailer with a short but tantalizing speech. ‘We’re gonna show combat and something new with a crazy ending.’
And what a crazy ending it was. I warn you, if you haven’t seen the trailer yet, the rest of this article is going to contain spoilers. Proceed at your own risk. You could always watch the trailer and head back here to see judge me on my descriptiveness.
The trailer kicks off in a dark mechanical environment with our protagonist, Jacob Lee, using one of his abilities to pull a health item toward himself. He crouches and proceeds to sneak across some kind of hallway or gangway before coming almost face to face with a large, bulbous humanoid creature. Quick as a whip, he draws his weapon and fires at the creature, sending it flying into a structure comprised of vertical turbines. The creature explodes into millions of pieces of viscera in a dense bloody mist.
Lee then sneaks up to a second creature that looks to be covered in cysts and stabs it before it knows what’s hit it. The first blow strikes its back, the next buries itself in the creature’s skull.
This starts a chain reaction of fearsome creature after fearsome creature charging at Lee. He does his best to disable them but some of them have regenerative abilities and don’t go down without a fight. Once the last creature has met its demise at the hands of our protagonist, the screen fades to black.
A new scene begins and we see Lee now making his way through a sewer-like system. A massive wave behind him sends him careening down the watery deathtrap filled with pylons that could split him open and turbines that could vaporize him. He flies down the course with the flood and then we see the crazy ending. Jacob Lee gets caught in a massive turbine.
His face contorts into agony as the turbine struggles to gain momentum again with his body caught in its blades. In the final few frames, Jacob Lee’s body gives way as the turbine slices through his torso. He lies, lifeless, on cold, wet metal in a presumably alien world.
The Callisto Protocol is expected to launch on Playstation 5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on the 2nd of December this year.
