Koei Tecmo’s worldwide Attack on Titan 3 livestream, the one we learned about when the game was revealed at Summer Game Fest, has locked in a release window: the action game launches worldwide this winter on PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, Switch 2, and PC via Steam. A new trailer arrived alongside the announcement, along with the first proper look at gameplay.
One of the bigger reveals is that MAPPA, the studio behind Attack on Titan: The Final Season, is producing the game’s opening animation, with the anime’s action scene animator, storyboard artist, and key animator Arifumi Imai returning to direct it. Strangely, the opening won’t be there at launch, though, and will instead arrive in a post-launch update. Attack on Titan 3 is the first entry in Omega Force’s action series to adapt the story from beginning to end, following 2016’s Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom and 2018’s Attack on Titan 2, and as I said when the game was revealed, I thought the anime’s final season was a bittersweet way to close out the story even if plenty of fans didn’t enjoy it.
On the gameplay side, players create their own Scout Regiment member and fight alongside Eren, Mikasa, Armin, and the rest of the cast, assembling squads around each character’s signature abilities. The omni-directional mobility gear returns with further refinements, the Titans have new attacks and behaviors that make them more dangerous than in past entries, and the Nine Titans are fightable for the first time in the series. A new Casual Mode is also coming for players who want the story without the difficulty.
The other big addition is Exterior Scouting Missions, which let you freely explore the world outside the walls, building supply bases, hunting Titans, and expanding humanity’s territory. Resource management plays a bigger role here, with ODM fuel, blades, and squad morale all needing attention, and pushing deeper into Titan territory risks permanent injury or death for your squad. You can always retreat instead. The game ships with Japanese voices and text support in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, and anyone attending Anime Expo in Los Angeles through July 5 can catch the new trailer at the AmiAmi booth.
