Ubisoft are nowhere to be found during this year’s not-E3 season, meaning there’s no opportunity for the French publisher to announce six new games they’ll never release. I still crave a Splinter Cell fix, however, and Mudang: Two Hearts delivered, kinda. It’s Korean, it’s got fast-moving rage zombies, but it’s also got men shimmying up pipes, cinematic brawls, and a rapid-cut montage of knife crimes. You should watch the trailer.
“In the not-too-distant future, the divided nations of South and North Korea are on the verge of reunification,” begins the game’s blurb. “On the day when the historic bill was set to pass, a mystery terrorist group attacks the South Korean National Assembly, throwing the entire nation into chaos. Sent to uncover the truth, a North Korean soldier stumbles upon a K-Pop star and is given a new mission: protect the girl who can unravel it all.”
Hard to say which part of that seems less realistic, but the important thing is it’s described as a stealth action thriller. Whether I’m a Fisherlike or a K-pop star, all I want to do is shimmy along ledges and press some QTE prompts during hand-to-hand combat with a man whose head is magnetically drawn towards the nearest mirror.
That’s about all we know for now, but Mudang will apparently launch sometime in 2026.
