Death Stranding: Director's Cut (2021)

505 Games, Kojima Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment

Main
38
hours
Main + Extra
59
hours
Platinum
111
hours

From legendary game creator Hideo Kojima comes a genre-defying experience, now expanded and remastered for PS5 in this definitive Director's Cut. Experience an extended storyline through new missions in an expanded area. Make use of additional weapons and vehicles, take on new enemy types and explore new locations such as the Firing Range and Racetrack, featuring extra missions and minigames. Stay connected with other players from around the globe.

About the story

In the future, a mysterious event known as the Death Stranding has opened a doorway between the living and the dead, leading to grotesque creatures from the afterlife roaming the fallen world marred by a desolate society. As Sam Bridges, your mission is to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Can you reunite the shattered world, one step at a time?

Platforms

iOS Mac PC PS5 Series X|S

Genres

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Shooter

Themes

Action Open world Science fiction Stealth Survival

Languages: English and 19 more

Interface Audio Subtitles
English
Spanish (Spain)
Arabic
Czech
Dutch
Hungarian
Japanese
Polish
Korean
Portuguese (Portugal)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Turkish
French
Italian
German
Spanish (Mexico)
English (UK)

Critic Reviews

Generación Xbox

By Pedro del Pozo

95

I would recommend it blindly, with its pros and cons, and I would even justify some of its “problems” with a psychology towards the player that really ends up getting rid of the infamous “Ludonarrative Dissonance”.

18 Nov, 2024
Niche Gamer

By Fingal Belmont

90

Death Stranding: Director’s Cut may not resonate with everyone who plays it. This is not a typical action game. It’s pensive for long stretches with bizarre instances of humor and sudden bouts of action. Death Stranding: Director’s Cut blends several genres into an epic surrealist sci-fi epic. Kojima’s message may be aggressively in-your-face, but at least it is a message worth having.

16 Nov, 2024
MondoXbox

By Giuseppe Genga

83

Death Stranding: Director's Cut is a unique game, the product of a volcanic mind capable of creating a fascinating, visually stunning world with unique gameplay mechanics. The downside, however, is missions that become repetitive and tedious in the long run, with an obsession with extremely long and tedious dialogue. A work dominated by genius and unruliness, a true auteur game that we recommend everyone try at least once.

10 Nov, 2024
Uagna

By Marco De Prospero

90

The Xbox version of Death Stranding Director's Cut represents an excellent opportunity for all Microsoft gamers who had never been able to get their hands on Kojima's latest creation. To this day, Death Stranding remains a superlative game with unique gameplay. Despite this, we are still faced with a game that divides the gaming community without half measures: if you didn't like it initially, you won't this time either. On the whole, however, the porting to Xbox Series X/S has been optimised properly, as it was already done on PS5.

10 Nov, 2024
Hey Poor Player

By Jonathan Trussler

80

When I was first asked what mark I’d give Death Stranding out of five, I said I would give it a question mark. It’s certainly not conventionally “fun”, at least not for the first several hours. It depends on how much the player is willing to embrace Kojima’s artistic vision and absorb themselves in it. Death Stranding simultaneously tedious and exciting, profound and inane, terrifying and laughable. Like the spectral beings that inhabit this post-apocalyptic America, it’s often shapeless and hard to comprehend. One thing is for sure though: it’s like no game you’ve ever played before. In a world full of pandering pablum and endlessly milked franchises, it’s extraordinary for a big-budget game to be so daringly different. Death Stranding: Director’s Cut doesn’t just re-invent the wheel, it re-invents the whole cart, and that’s why the definitive edition of Hideo Kojima’s opus is well worth playing.

24 Apr, 2022

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