Titan Forge Games and publisher Hi-Rez Studios have announced the sequel to the popular action/MOBA SMITE and showed the first trailer for the game.
In case you've forgotten, SMITE is a MOBA in which you control heroes as in a third-person shooter, but the game is not called a hero shooter because it is so much closer to a MOBA in terms of pacing and game mechanics.
The first installment of SMITE was released on PC back in 2014 and later ported to Xbox One (2015), PlayStation 4 (2016), Nintendo Switch (2019), and Amazon Luna (2021). In the game, you control gods from Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Indian, Chinese, Scandinavian, Mesoamerican, and other mythologies. It even caused a religious scandal with representatives of Hinduism. Not so long ago, SMITE announced the involvement of 40 million players in the game, and the original game is also a popular esports discipline with regular tournaments and a world championship with large cash prizes.
SMITE 2 is being developed on the Unreal Engine 5, while the original game used Unreal Engine 3. The closed beta will be available to players in the spring of 2024, and the game will be released on Windows PC, Steam Deck, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5. The SMITE 2 page on Steam already exists, so you can add the game to your Wish List.
Despite the work on SMITE 2, Titan Forge Games has no plans to stop supporting the first part of the game, at least for the time being.