SOMA's First Gameplay Teaser Is Here

I'm probably too easily scared to play this but I'm looking forward to watching it on scoopin' with spooks

"kings of terror".

i didn't see any "team silent" logos in that trailer.

Team Silent doesn't really exist anymore, and tell me the last time a Silent Hill game wasn't a huge disappointment. (I really liked Shattered Memories, though...)

Yo I am already so on board with this. Even after being a little dissappointed with Machine for Pigs (still great though). SIGN ME THE EFF UP

Time to shit yourself again except this time IN SPAAAAACE!!!

It looks like it takes a lot from other stuff visually (Alien obviously, but also Fire in the Sky and the works of Isaac Asimov) but I'm still really impressed by this trailer. It does seem quite early for them to be building hype however, 2015 is a long way off in gaming years.

Gross. And I mean that in the none political way.

Also, if they showed your arms then they'd have to do that crazy Trespasser arm articulation for when you manipulated stuff in the environment.

Also, also, if they showed your arms then that would give away the fact that (SPOILER) YOU'RE A ROBOT!!! Just kidding, I don't know anything about the plot but from the promotional footage you're being a robot and not knowing it until the end seems kind of obvious.

I'm a huge fan of industrial, grimey ass looking sci fi so I might try this out despite my distaste for horror games.

nope nope nope nope nope

I wonder if there will be more elaborate gameplay ... Amnesia was fine and all but the limited mechanics make it more like a carnival ride then a game.

Yeah that actually pulls me out of games in a bad way. They should really go for a BioShock Infinite style of seeing your hands and stuff where it makes sense. Just seeing the dude's arm move on its own and not seeing your legs when standing up made no sense.

Right. So when you wake up in a dank medical bay your first instinct is to stuff a metal brain back into a corpse, because that's totally sane and not psychotic. Oh, and make sure you narrate would-be inner dialogue to yourself. Seems poorly voice acted as well.

HOWEVER, when he breaks through that wall and it gets all H.R Giger and then there's the HAL robot design I totally want to forgive said criticisms and play the shit out of this.

It's decided then, I'll buy this then hopefully watch Patrick play it :) but 2015 is a long wait.

Just so people know, this is a level made just for this trailer. The voice actor and protagonist have nothing to do with the actual game. Everything you see in this trailer was made just for this trailer. Just thought id clear that up :P

wow, wow

The alien looking corridors make me think of Fire in the Sky movie... Looks pretty awesome!

Can't wait.

I just... I wasn't freaked out by that. Amnesia makes my butt clench up any time I see someone play it or play it myself. Hell, I haven't past the first 30 minutes cause I'm a wuss. This, doesn't look scary to me at all. =\

Hello Dave, I've taken the liberty of removing your squishy brain from your skull and hid it for safe keeping, I hope you don't mind...

Seeing that's going to be on the PS4 is a real awesome thing. Good for Frictional.

2 years out, probably placeholder

Oh sweet jebus I want this. I want it so bad. SO BAAAD.

Yeah, it's kinda crazy that showing your body in first person games still isn't the standard, after several noteworthy games have done it over the past 20 years. Of course, modelling environmental interactions like pulling apart a wall may be kinda hard if you aren't going for the entirely scripted route.

Yeah, though I don't think it necessarily have to be distant future stuff - my issue with the "ghost mansion" style stuff is that they rely on the supernatural - I'm sure there are ways to make a present day horror game while remaining in the world as we know it. Condemned 2's bear stuff should be proof of that.

to all you who have the stones to play these types of games. Good on you. I could crap my pants right about now.

For a game called "Soma" it's pretty weird that the player model doesn't have a visible body.

Hope so. I'd prefer a silent protagonist if they don't get someone better. They guys who made The Swapper proved that you don't need to have a lot of money to get some excellent voice actors.

I noticed some of you are complaining that the first person view here doesn't show the character's body. Maybe I'm just reading into the kind of story that I think the trailer implies a little too much, but maybe we're not seeing a body for a reason. It seems like there's a pretty heavy theme about man and machine and it asks the question, "at what point do you stop being you and become something else?"

I'm not saying that means you're in some flying machine head, but I'm just saying maybe they don't want you to see yourself. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of reveal that you used to be a real person and now you're something else. How that ties into the gameplay and how that works with enemies and your environment is really yet to be seen, but I can say I am very interested and will certainly pick this up on when it comes out.

I dunno man, it worked out pretty well for Zack Snyder when he was dubbed the "visionary director of 300" when working on Watchmen.... :-|

@elementsoftony: The PC "logo" is much better, imho.

Giger and Clive Barker influence going on here. Interesting but 2015 is so far away from me; so far I just can't see.

Even if it were representative of the final product, knocking the voice acting and perspective of a game two years from release is the height of nitpicking.

My first thought. Love that game.

Wanna play this as well. Glad it's coming to PC, because if it was PS4-exclusive, I'd have to punch Adam Boyes in the dick...really hard.

@travan: exactly, I just said it because people were picking on the voice actor :P

Fuck. Yes. I'm sold.

I should actually try playing through Amnesia instead of watching playthroughs.