Preview New World Aeternum Gets a Fresh Start on PS5 But Can It Stand Out
A whole new New World.
With New World: Aeternum, Amazon Games is bringing its action RPG MMO to consoles after several years exclusively on PC. This new version of the game is essentially a relaunch for the title, making many quality-of-life improvements and including a brand new onboarding process, ensuring new players get off on the right foot. At Summer Game Fest Play Days, we were able to check out Aeternum's earliest moments, and while it's far from perfect, we found ourselves falling into the typical action RPG rhythms very easily.
MMO titles are typically quite complex affairs, and while New World: Aeternum is no exception, it seems to have been translated quite effectively for play on a controller. After selecting a character archetype (we went for the Musketeer), we found ourselves going through pretty standard tutorials, teaching us basic attacks and defensive manoeuvres. All your basic melee strikes are on R2, with the other shoulder buttons reserved for special, class-based skills you'll unlock as you progress. After acclimatising ourselves to the controls, it all felt pretty natural on a pad, and we slashed our way through the game's first steps with ease.
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