The Game Awards 2023 was the stage for the reveal of another Kojima Productions game that isn’t Death Stranding 2. This is OD, the other game the development team is working on together with Xbox Game Studios.
The trailer is just a bunch of actors and actresses’ close-up shots saying “The hungry purple dinosaur ate the kind, zingy fox, the jabbering crab, and the mad whale and started vending and quacking”. A pangram of sorts, where a sentence uses all the letters of the English alphabet at least once. Something like “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, but with a more sinister undertone.
OD is being developed using Unreal Engine 5, and will be using the Metahuman tech- which explains why the close-up faces of these actors and actresses look real yet uncanny. Unreal, one might say.
Game director Hideo Kojima will be collaborating with various Hollywood talents for OD, including director Jordan Peele, as part of his “Avengers” team of collaborators, of which more will be revealed soon.
Games by Kojima Productions are something else, produced with a strong vision but also can be a little up too artsy, to put it lightly, for some. Whatever OD ends up being, which Kojima has clarified that it does not stand for “Oxygen Destroyer” or “Open The Door”, it’s probably going to be a wild ride filled with symbolisms that can either be clever or too on-the-nose.