12 Things We Learned At The Game Awards 2016

8. Death Stranding Features Mads Mikkelsen & Guillermo Del Toro

Death Stranding Mads Mikkelsen
Kojima Productions

After Hideo Kojima received his well-deserved Icon Award, he had a surprise for everyone: another cinematic, enigmatic trailer for his upcoming action game Death Stranding.

Interestingly enough, the game's apparent protagonist, played by Norman Reedus, was nowhere to be seen, but rather a man (played by Guillermo del Toro) appearing to flee from an army featuring both shadowy soldiers and tanks that appear to be bio-mechanical, complete with unsettling worm attachments.

Then Del Toro hooks a baby-in-a-bottle up to some oil, and then a porcelain-looking baby floats down a stream of oil and meets up with members of the enemy army, headed up by none other than the brilliant Mads Mikkelsen, who has long been rumoured to be part of the production.

It's an absolutely bats*** crazy trailer, and what it lacks in clarity, it more than compensates with sheer nutty imagination.

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