For those who don't know who Mads Mikkelsen is, he was the bad dude in Doctor Strange. And just by looking at this frame, he's going to be the main bad dude in Death Stranding as well.



Motorcycle riding is always a fun in-game mechanic. And if the game world is huge, then this will be a welcome addition.



We'll take a guess at the plot: the president of the USA is a woman and she is dying. Norman Reedus' character has to help her fix a crumbling America.



Did we say crumbling? Or has it already crumbled? There's definitely a post-apocalyptic vibe to this location.



It looks like there's going to be a lot of different environments in the game. We hope the regular PS4 can handle it because we're not buying a PS4 Pro this late in the cycle.




A collapsible ladder in your inventory? We just know that there's going to be a lot of cool stuff you can do with that.



But rappelling down a mountain is much faster than using a ladder.



Kojima has created some of the most memorable video game villains ever (shout out to Psycho Mantis and The End). This gold skull mask dude looks very promising.



Here he is licking the face of Lea Seydoux's (Inglourious Basterds, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Spectre, Blue is the Warmest Color) face which is a classic crazy bad guy move.



As with the Metal Gear series, stealth looks like an important part of Death Stranding...



unless you want to be swarmed by a group of baddies.



More motorcycle riding is a good thing.



There's weird and there's Kojima-weird. Equipping a baby to sense invisible enemies (at least that's how we think it's going to work) is definitely Kojima-weird.



It's like that Detective Mode on the Arkham game series. But powered by an actual infant child.



When you thought things couldn't get weirder, this happens. Was this supposed to be in Kojima's cancelled Silent Hills game?




WAIT, WHAT JUST HAPPENED??? WAS THAT TIME TRAVEL???



That's definitely a World War I tank. So is time travel really a thing in this game? We told you we won't even attempt to explain this to you.



This looks like a paranormal Call of Duty.



There's a character called DIE-HARDMAN. DIE. HARD. MAN.



Kojima is also apparently hanging out with other (film) directors because Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, The Shape of Water) is in the game. Director Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, Bronson, Valhalla Rising) also makes an appearance. This game's budget must be huge with all these names in the cast.



Skeleton soldiers? Why not. At this point, it looks like anything goes with this game.




Please give Norman Reedus' character a crossbow.



The game looks weird AF but seeing this name there is enough to convince us that this is a day 1 purchase. We're already counting the days 'til November 8.