Warframe is going to get a real intro cinematic. The game has not had one so far. The new video looks amazing and has been well received.
What’s up with the video? Hard to believe, but Warframe has lacked a concrete cinematic intro until now. When the game was released 6 years ago, there was only a small in-game sequence that raised more questions than it answered and went directly into the tutorial.
Now, for the first time, a completely new video has been introduced, directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who is also responsible for the Uncharted movie.
By the way, the trailer we embedded here is not yet final in the game; it is expected to go live in a later update in 2019 or 2020.
Cooler entry or too many spoilers?
What can be seen in the video? After a long wait for the video, it has become significantly larger and more epic at over 6 minutes long. It shows a girl fleeing from advancing Grineer assault troops into an old Orokin tower, where she offers three supposed Tenno statues Lotus flowers as sacrifices.
In between, there are flashbacks from the past when the Tenno fought a last battle against Grineer and Dax soldiers at this very spot.
Even a fluffy Kubrow space dog can be seen. In the end, however, the Tenno retreat before the overwhelming force and fall into stasis, where they likely remained for a very long time.
In the end, however, they awaken from their stasis and are ready to resume the fight against the Grineer and Co.
How was the trailer received by players? Most fans on YouTube and in the comments section of Kotaku love the new cinematic and can’t get enough of it:
- “I’m not lying when I say that I started playing Warframe after the cinematic.”
- “I will watch it until I hate it!”
- “Other developers could learn from Digital Extremes. How they treat their game and their community shows how passionate they are. It almost reminds me of the old Bungie or Blizzard.”
However, other players find it less favorable that the cinematic apparently contains spoilers for the later story. There is currently a controversial discussion about whether the scenes shown will ruin later plot quests such as Second Dream or The War Within, or if it is irrelevant for new players since they won’t know the necessary background anyway.
