Intergalactic story, setting, and characters
Intergalactic is a sci-fi game featuring the character Jordan A. Mun, who is played by Tati Gabrielle. She has a connection to Naughty Dog, as she starred in the Uncharted movie. She’s also set to appear in The Last of Us Season 2 as Nora, while she’s playing Jade in Mortal Kombat 2.
Mun is a “dangerous bounty hunter” who becomes stranded on the planet Sempiria. This planet has lost communication with the world and “went dark hundreds of years ago.” In fact, anyone who’s flown to it hoping to unravel its mysterious past was never heard from again. Jordan will have to use all her skills and wits if she hopes to be the first person in over 600 years to leave its orbit,” reads a line from the game’s description.
The New York Times reported that Intergalactic takes place in an alternate universe where space travel was “significantly advanced” by 1986. At one point in the trailer, Jordan pops in a CD of the Pet Shop Boys’ “Actually” album, which debuted in 1987.
Naughty Dog isn’t sharing any further details on Intergalactic’s story, apart from promising the game will live up to the “Naughty Dog tradition of creating an emotional, character-driven epic journey.”
The developer also teased that Intergalactic will offer the “deepest gameplay” in Naughty Dog history, whatever that means. The studio said Intergalactic will take learnings from Uncharted and The Last of Us and push them “beyond anything we’ve ever done before.”
“Our narrative goals are rivaled only by our gameplay ambitions,” Naughty Dog said.
In one sequence in the trailer, we see Jordan fly down to the surface of Sempiria and do battle against some kind of hulking mech robot. She wields some kind of red kinetic sword to fight the beast, but the trailer cuts out before we see any real combat.
The Intergalactic announcement trailer also featured the actor Kumail Nanjiani, and Naughty Dog said it plans to reveal “more of our ensemble down the line.” Someone bearing the resemblance to Better Call Saul actor Tony Dalton also showed up in the trailer.