These characters will all serve different purposes as they each have different weapon sets. The veteran Sword Art Online characters that have already been confirmed for the game so far are Kirigaya 'Kirito' Kazuto, Asada 'Sinon' Shino, Yuuki 'Asuna' Asuna and Kirigaya 'Leafa' Suguha, and there'll be plenty more to come. With that element of choice present, it's confirmed that the player will get to choose what character he or she wants to play. There were two demo versions available and because of the fact that the previous base games have all put the player into the virtual world as Kirito we chose to play as Sinon during the stage Remnant Wasteland.

One of the many VR experiences playable through the NerveGear system is Gun Gale Online, which is the game world Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet takes place in and we got to explore a tiny bit of a seemingly massive third-person shooter at the Bandai Namco booth during Gamescom. Doesn't sound as appealing after finding that out, does it? Good thing us simple folk get to enjoy the fictional MMO that's actually a single-player RPG without plugging our brains into any machines. That undeniably sounds like a dream, we'd say, if you disregard the fact that the gamers all get stuck inside the simulation with the only way out being to finish the game and if they die in the game they suffer the same fate in real life. The technology behind the VR experience is an advanced one that connects straight into the beta testers' brains through a helmet called 'NerveGear' and lets the players control their in-game avatars using only their minds. The base premise of Sword Art Online as a series is that a boy called Kirito who loves video games (very relatable so far, we know) gets the chance to, along with 999 other people, play an exclusive closed beta version of a futuristic virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (rolls off the tongue, but we'll be referring to that one as an MMO from now on) called Sword Art Online. Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet will put the player in the unforgiving virtual reality massive multiplayer online RPG and to be clear from the get-go - Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet is not technically an MMORPG, it's just set in a fictional one. Producer Yousuke Futami has previously said he would like to make a game based on the virtual world of Gun Gale Online and in 2018, with the help from Dragonball Xenoverse studio Dimps, we're actually getting a third-person shooter set in the Gun Gale Online realm of the universe.

Not only was Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet one of the few actual game announcements at Gamescom this year, it was an anomaly to the series as well.

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