Hideo Kojima took the stage at The Game Awards tonight—no surprise there—but didn’t show up with a Death Stranding 2 trailer like we might’ve expected. Instead, Kojima was joined by actor and director Jordan Peele to announce horror game OD.
We knew Kojima was working on a game other than Death Stranding 2 with support from Xbox Studios, but this is the first we’re seeing of it.
“[OD] is a game, don’t get me wrong, but it’s at the same time a movie, but at the same time a new form of media,” Kojima said through a translator.
The OD trailer embedded above doesn’t tell us a whole lot, except that it’ll feature Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schafer, and Udo Kier. The strange sentence they’re repeating is one that contains all the phonemes in English: “The hungry purple dinosaur ate the kind, zingy fox, the jabbering crab, and the mad whale and started vending and quacking.”
“I’m a huge fan of Hideo, this man is an icon,” said Peele when he joined Kojima on stage. “I can say that from the first moment I played Metal Gear Solid 2, I knew I was experiencing the work of an artist whose craft just hits different. And he’s been an inspiration to me, and the op…