Dispatch is a brand new narrative recreation from ex-Telltale builders

One of many highlights from The Game Awards final evening was the second Breaking Dangerous star Aaron Paul and voice actor Laura Bailey took the stage to disclose Dispatch. Set to reach in 2025, the narrative recreation is from AdHoc Studio, based by former Telltale Video games builders, and encompasses a stacked forged together with Paul, Bailey, Jeffrey Wright, Erin Yvette, Jacksepticeye and others — a mixture of A-list Hollywood expertise and top-tier recreation voice actors.

The toon-style Dispatch presents narrative, dialogue-driven gameplay in the identical vein as Telltale. In accordance with the Steam web page, you play as “Robert Robertson, AKA Mecha Man, whose mech-suit is destroyed in a battle towards his nemesis, forcing him to take a job at a superhero dispatch middle: not as a hero, however a dispatcher.”

There’s extra within the official synopsis, which explains that Dispatch is “a superhero office comedy the place decisions matter. Handle a dysfunctional crew of misfit heroes and strategize who to ship to emergencies across the metropolis, all whereas balancing workplace politics, private relationships, and your individual quest to turn out to be a hero.”

AdHoc sprung up in 2019, when former Telltale devs joined forces to proceed Telltale’s journey recreation legacy, after the Strolling Lifeless studio laid off most of its employees in 2018. A rebooted Telltale labored with AdHoc on The Wolf Among Us 2, however final yr, the developer introduced that it had laid off most of its crew. Nonetheless, it just lately said that The Wolf Amongst Us 2 has not been cancelled.