Saros: The Big Preview - IGN

Risk and reward. Those two words power every aspect of Saros. Whether diving headfirst into a flurry of bullets, choosing between two weapon types, or embodying protagonist Arjun Devraj and seeking the painful secrets his story dangles in front of you, there’s a risk inherent to unlocking each of Saros’s rewards. Housemarque’s follow-up to Returnal takes what made the 2021 third-person “looper shooter” so acclaimed and twists it into a whole new cosmic horror bullet-fest that aims to surpass its predecessor. And from playing three hours myself, I think it's doing just that. Carcosa is an alien planet that has been targeted by the human mega-corporation Soltari due to its rich deposits of the incredibly valuable resource, Lucenite. It’s a sci-fi setup as old as time, stretching from Alien to Avatar, and if you’ve seen any of these films, you know things never go quite to plan. Several Soltari ‘Echelon’ crews have been sent to scout and colonise the planet, but contact has mysteriously been lost with them, so it's your job as Arjun Devraj, a member of Echelon IV, to find out what has happened. But this isn’t just any old search and rescue mission, because Carcosa isn’t just any old p