Gen Atlas Is The New Name For Ico Creator Fumito Ueda’s Project Robot

Fumito Ueda, the creator of Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian returned to Summer Game Fest with his previously hinted at Project Robot, now renamed Gen Atlas. And the brief showing of in-game footage it looks as beautiful as you’d hope, as we fly around what appear to be the ruined remains of a vast robot.

Fumito Ueda appeared at the Summer Game Fest event, albeit silently from the audience, before footage from what we now know is called Gen Atlas was shown, eliciting gasps from the crowd and the Kotaku Slack.

Because it’s a Ueda-san game, it’s obviously about a small guy in an imbalanced relationship with an enormous guy, this time two wildly differently sized robots. The head we see floating around in the footage eventually meets the collapsed body, which then rises up to meet it and the two connect. Meanwhile the smaller robo-dude is firing a gun at crowds of alien enemies, in a strikingly action-looking sequence from a creator best known for methodically slow and calm games.

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