.jpg?resize=1920,999999 "Texas Chain Saw Massacre Dev Addresses The Game Leaving Xbox Game Pass")
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (TCM) is approaching its first anniversary. When it launched on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation platforms on August 18 final 12 months, it additionally landed in Xbox Game Pass. That advantageous place helped the sport climb to over 4 million gamers in its first month.
With the sport quickly exiting Game Pass, the TCM group has been… for instance gloomy about it on social media. Some counsel the sport cannot survive with out the gamers coming from Xbox’s subscription service, and others, unaware of how Game Pass offers work, surprise why the sport is leaving the service in any respect.
Wes Keltner–CEO, designer, and director at Gun Media–provided a press release to GameSpot concerning TCM’s time in Game Pass, in addition to its forthcoming departure, in an effort to handle the involved followers. He additionally prompt the sport might sooner or later return to the subscription library, as some video games have prior to now.
“It’s laborious to consider that it’s been one 12 months since The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was launched! We’ve had a blast creating new content material and watching how the gamers interact and share the distinctive experiences our sport creates. In a number of methods we owe Game Pass and the group at Xbox for the notice and success of the title to date. Now that our time with Game Pass is coming to an finish, it’s time to concentrate on the way forward for Texas, and it appears very shiny!
“Game Pass is a good program, particularly for small groups like ours which might be attempting to push comparatively new genres ahead. It removes so many limitations to entry for gamers, and permits them to pattern quite a lot of video games and genres they could in any other case by no means contact. Some might not discover horror multiplayer for them, however we discovered so many new gamers there. And whereas an ideal many subscribers use this system to “graze,” we have got an lively and constant participant base that is been there since launch on all platforms. And we’ll see a number of Game Pass gamers convert to paid–especially since they get a reduction from Xbox to take action. That is a reasonably cool deal in the event you ask me.
“We’ve loved our time throughout the Game Pass ecosystem and who is aware of, perhaps we’ll enter again into it once more sooner or later. Being one of the vital widespread video games in Game Pass this final 12 months and successful the Xbox Excellence Award is normally a superb signal {that a} sport is not going to solely return to that program, but additionally has a powerful future full of latest content material and experiences. Bloody, gory, enjoyable experiences. See you in Texas.”
As for specifics on the “way forward for Texas,” the TCM group has just lately revealed the Content Pass, which gives a bundle of upcoming DLC at a decreased worth when in comparison with shopping for the content material individually ($20 versus $45). The cross contains two new characters (one for every group), 4 upcoming beauty packs, a brand new execution pack, which is strictly what it sounds like–gruesome new kill animations–and early entry to a free new sport mode, Rush Week, coming sooner or later.
Moreover, extra paid beauty packs are on the way in which, in addition to a number of free updates, together with a brand new map and climate variants for 3 of the sport’s current maps.
Echoing Keltner’s ideas on the sport’s post-Game Pass roadmap, Gun’s Matt Shotcha instructed a involved participant, “[G]ames come and go on Game Pass on a regular basis. That is how the service works. It has been a 12 months, and an ideal one at that […] Don’t fret, we nonetheless have all of the content material deliberate we at all times did. Assist and content material aren’t inherently tied to Game Pass.”
In GameSpot’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre evaluation, I referred to as it one of many scariest video games I’ve ever performed, giving it a rating of 9 out of 10 and added, “While you hear that chainsaw revving, it is like nothing else in horror, irrespective of the medium.”