Wasteland 2, Super Dungeon Bros, and Sentris coming to PS4

Sony confirmed a trio of new PlayStation 4 games on the PlayStation Blog today, including Wasteland 2: Game of the Year Edition, which was confirmed for Xbox One yesterday.

Get the summaries below.

Sentris (PS4, Timbre Interactive)

Sentris is a rhythm game where you make your own music with a high degree of control.

To play, you drop curved blocks called “Sound Blocks” into a spinning loop. As you do, they play their contained sound, and they play once more with each full rotation of the loop.

You can push Sound Blocks toward the center of the loop by dropping one on top of another. The way you drop the Blocks builds a song that is distinctive to your play session. Your choice of order, your choice of instruments, and your decisions around how to stack Blocks inside the loop all come together to make the songs uniquely yours.

Sentris is both a musical instrument that allows you to express yourself musically (and build real musical skills), as well as a puzzle game that enables your creativity. What’s the puzzle part of it? The loop is always filled with some puzzle objects called Gems. Gems light up when you drop a correct Sound Block onto them. Some Gems need to be matched with a specific instrument (represented by color), or they need to match a specific pitch (represented by a symbol).

The game includes a “Performance Mode.” This is the way to play Sentris with total musical control, choosing any sound or instrument you want at every moment. It’s the closest thing to actually standing on a concert stage with a guitar or keyboard.

There’s also an in-between mode, called “Remix Mode.” This is halfway between Puzzle and Performance mode, and acts as a bridge between the two ways of thinking about playing music.

Timbre Interactive is working hard to enable players to share their music in other ways outside of PlayStation 4’s Share capabilities that it is not quite ready to talk yet.

Super Dungeon Bros (PS4, Wired Productions)

Super Dungeon Bros is a rock-themed dungeon brawler with on & offline cross platform co-op gameplay.

You’ll take control of a group of warrior brothers in the ever-changing dungeons of Rökheim, facing dangerous foes, deadly obstacles, and hazardous puzzles.

Combining rock and fantasy, Super Dungeon Bros takes advantage of cross-platform multiplayer, allowing PlayStation bros to descend the darkest dungeons of Rökheim with their PC counterparts!

There will also be a single-player campaign so bros can rock it out on their own.Specific daily and weekly challenges, as well as dedicated leaderboards, are also planned.

You can register your interest at the game’s official website to gain access to the exclusive beta.

Wasteland 2: Game of the Year Edition (PS4, inXile Entertainment)

In this hardcore RPG, you take control of a squad of four Desert Rangers — plus any followers you pick up along the way — to keep peace in the post-apocalyptic Arizona desert. But a larger threat looms on the horizon, and it will fall to your team to deal with it… or die trying.

More than anything, our focus is on reactivity. We crafted a game that truly reacts to your choices. Save someone from overgrown mutant honey badgers? Break into someone’s trunk of supplies? Shoot some punk in the street and deliver some “wasteland justice”? The game accounts for your choices and reacts accordingly, and no two experiences will be alike. The fate of the wasteland is in your hands, and the outcomes aren’t black and white.

For the Game of the Year Edition, we’ve ported Wasteland 2 to Unity 5, the latest version of this highly versatile game engine, which has let us overhaul the game with some new visual effects, improved character models, upgraded environments, and Unity 5’s physically based shading to get more realistic lighting and shadowing. This is all something we wouldn’t have been able to do on the previous generation of tech.

We are also not afraid of a rich narrative and memorable characters. Wasteland 2 is full of interesting and quirky personalities to interact with, logbooks and lore items to uncover, and detailed descriptions of the environments you’re exploring. We’ve even managed to go back and add new voice-over for key characters and story moments. We want the wasteland to be a place you really feel immersed in, and that goes beyond just graphics.

Of course, that’s all great, but how does it play? In this new edition, we’re beefing up our existing gameplay and adding some new features. You’ll be able to customize your squad even more with our new Perks and Quirks (traits) to add unique bonuses and characteristics. Our new Precision Strike (aimed shots) system will let you target individual body parts to cripple or stun enemies, or shatter their armor so you can mop them up, giving you even more options in combat. And you’ll need those options, because we’ve been hard at work hand-crafting each battle you’ll find yourself in.

Wasteland 2: Game of the Year Edition will launch this summer.