Two new video games primarily based on the 1978 horror basic Halloween are in improvement at Boss Group Video games, IGN can solely reveal.
Whereas particulars are restricted, each video games are apparently being developed along side the producers of the Halloween franchise. What’s extra, one of many video games is being developed in Unreal Engine 5, and can embrace enter from authentic director John Carpenter.
“As an enormous gamer myself, I’m thrilled to assist deliver Michael Myers to life once more on this sport, and my hope is to scare you foolish,” stated Carpenter, who might be “intimately concerned” with the event of the brand new mission.
In keeping with the official launch, the video games will permit gamers to “relive moments from the movie and play as basic characterse from one of the iconic and necessary horror movies of all time.” The 2 new video games are being developed in affiliation with Compass Worldwide Footage and Additional Entrance, with the Unreal Engine 5 mission nonetheless early in improvement.
Whereas Halloween is now greater than 45 years previous, there have been few video video games primarily based on the legendary slash franchise. The closest the sequence has seen to an precise adaptation 1983’s Halloween on the Atari 2600 during which you play as a babysitter — presumably Laurie Strode — looking for a secure room whereas being hunted by Michael Myers. The Form can be one among many villains to look in Lifeless by Daylight, Behaviour Interactive’s well-liked multiplayer horror sport.
Boss Group Video games, for its half, returns to the horror style after beforehand engaged on Evil Lifeless: The Game. In our evaluation we wrote, “Evil Lifeless: The Game is an superior uneven multiplayer sport that, like its supply materials, is much better than it has any proper to be given its irritating lack of polish and being considerably gentle on maps and modes.”
“Everybody at Boss Group Video games are large followers of horror and Halloween clearly holds a particular place within the hearts of all horror followers,” stated Boss Group Video games CEO Steve Harris “Getting to work with iconic characters like Michael Myers and construct on John Carpenter’s authentic imaginative and prescient is actually a dream come true. Everybody at Boss Group is thrilled and honored to be working with Malek Akkad and John Carpenter to ship a one-of-a-kind expertise that followers of the film and video video games will love.”
Neither Halloween mission has a launch date but. For extra, make sure to test our checklist of the very best horror video video games on PC.
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