There's an extra Death Stranding trailer being shown at Gamescom, and we've just seen it. Strap in.

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Currently only being shown to those attending the Death Stranding booth at the German show, the trailer - called 'Briefing' - is a story cutscene, seemingly from the earlier parts of the game, and it contextualises much of what we've seen in previous trailers, particularly about what Norman Reedus' Sam is aiming for in the game.Featuring Norman Reedus' Sam, Lindsay Wagner's Amelie, and Tommie Earl Jenkins' Die-Hardman, the trailer takes place in what seems to be the Oval Office, and features the two latter characters attempting to convince Sam to join their cause - to reconnect the fractured cities of the UCA (or United Cities of America).This project was started years earlier by Amelie, who travelled from east to west coast, attempting to convince isolated settlements to join the UCA's Chiral Network. Amelie was used to warn the convoy of nearby BTs (the spectral predators we've seen in previous trailers).There's more of interest about Amelie - she's the new president of the UCA. That means Bridget, the bedridden president we saw in the release date trailer (who is also played by Wagner) has seemingly died. We're told Amelie can no longer age, looks exactly the same as when Sam last saw her 10 years previously, and she says her "body is still on the beach". That implies she's connected to the game's "other side" in some way.The cutscene shows a holographic reconstruction of her work filling the Oval Office, showing multiple cities, and animations of what occurred, complete with video game-y bleeps and bloops.However, upon reaching Edge Knot City (which appears to be in the location of real-life Los Angeles), we're told Amelie was kidnapped by the Homo Demens, a separatist group of terrorists that opposes the UCA's goal. She is being held in the city, but is somehow able to project her image to the east coast to talk to Sam.Die-Hardman and Amelie ask Sam to take up her work, visiting the isolated settlements that agreed to join the UCA, and connecting them to the Chiral Network using a Q-Pid - the floating necklace we've seen Sam carrying in multiple trailers. As we saw in the gameplay trailer earlier this week , Sam can place the Q-Pid in a terminal, connecting that location to the UCA's network.After being told his prospective mission, Sam refuses to help Amelie and Die-Hardman - it appears that he worked with them previously before disappearing, and blames his separation on the others. The trailer ends with Amelie pleading for him to help, and Sam leaving.Of course, from what we've seen of the game, it seems Sam has a change of heart after this scene, and that the game's main goal is to travel from coast to coast, building the Chiral Network as you go.For more of the madness that is "trying to write down what Death Stranding's about", check out everything we learned from Kojima at Gamescom , and how the game will block you from seeing Norman Reedus' penis . What a time to be alive.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK Deputy Editor, and he has had to write all of this from memory, and now his brain has died. Follow him on Twitter