NieR: Automata - Limited Edition Steelbook (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

NieR: Automata - Limited Edition Steelbook

Invaders from another world attack without warning - unleashing the machine lifeforms. To break the deadlock, a new breed of android infantry is sent into the fray: the YoRHa squad. NieR: AutomataTM is a fresh…

10 March 2017

What NieR: Automata - Limited Edition Steelbook is

NieR: Automata - Limited Edition Steelbook is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by PlatinumGames and released in 2017. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The first and second playthroughs follow the respective views of 2B and 9S during an initial invasion. After opening a route for future missions, they are sent to clear out machine threats for the Resistance, led by Anemone, who provides the two with support. During their missions, 2B and 9S discover that the machines are exploring human societies and concepts. The two work with a pacifist machine group led by Pascal; battle Adam and Eve, physical manifestations of the machine network who reveal that their creators were destroyed centuries ago and encounter A2, a rogue android on the run from YoRHa. Adam is killed by 2B after he captures 9S. During his recuperation, 9S discovers a glitch in…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, drama and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Drakengard series

NieR: Automata - Limited Edition Steelbook is the 23rd of 35 entries we hold in the Drakengard series. The next entry was Nier: Automata - 3C3C1D119440927 in 2017.

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What it launched against

NieR: Automata - Limited Edition Steelbook launched on 10 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and NieR: Automata. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata.

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