Exodus, you did well to bring ex-Bioware developers and Matthew McConaughey aboard. But your freaky spaceships with flesh are what caught my attention.

Exodus, a RPG by ex-Bioware developers, announced at the Game Awards in 2017, didn't grab me immediately. In fact, I remember feeling a sort of whiplash. The first half of the initial showing mimicked Interstellar (which was fitting given Matthew McConaughey is in it), before taking a hard right into 'hell yes, shooting aliens'! Muse's Supermassive Black Hole played in the background.

It was a little neat, but not much to write about. While I'm not yet writing to my loved ones in faraway places about how exciting Exodus is, I must admit that the latest teaser of it has caught my attention, as I love a good meat monster.

The trailer, seen above, goes into the Mara Yama. They are a race of interstellar assholes who seem to have no other purpose than to kidnap people, torture them psychologically, and flesh-graft them onto spaceships.

"Do you understand what fear is?" McConaughey sings ominously, "The Mara Yama do." "They want to know minds. Memories. Emotions... Captured prey is subjected psychological torture before being neurologically drain." Don't make me feel threatened with anything.

All Tomorrows is the clear inspiration for Exodus. I am surprisingly excited about the movie as a whole. All Tomorrows, a science-fiction book published in 2006, provides a distorted view of the biological future of humanity. Or, rather, races.

In All Tomorrows humanity loses a battle to a genetic engineering sickos species called the Qu. They are, in short, pretty terrible to everyone. They turn humans into different forms to punish them, then play with them for 40,000,000 years and let them evolve on their own. The book is mainly concerned with dumping information on you about the various unfortunates and their gradual evolution.

The flesh-wall made up of suffering heads in the trailer is a clear homage paid to the Colonials who, after dying heroically under the hands of Qu, were turned into waste-eating, intelligent flesh bricks.

I don't really know. Maybe I'm being overly charitable. Starfield didn't say much about science fiction, but it was a vague nod in that direction. Exodus's clear reworking of some well-known sci-fi makes me hopeful that Archetype Entertainment has done their homework. Exodus has no release date yet, so we'll likely have to wait a while.