Summary

  • Evil Dead: The Game publisher Boss Team Games has announced two new Halloween titles.
  • They are both based on the 1978 original, with John Carpenter "intimately involved" in one of them.
  • We don't know much about either right now, but one is being developed in Unreal Engine 5.

Evil Dead: The Game publisher Boss Team Games has announced two new titles based on the 1978 genre-defining slasher, Halloween.

As revealed by IGN, details are slim right now, but both are being developed alongside the franchise's producers and original director John Carpenter, who also scored the iconic Michael Myers theme. He will be "intimately involved" in on one of the two games.

As a huge gamer myself, I'm thrilled to help bring Michael Myers to life again in this game, and my hope is to scare you silly.

According to the press release, the two games will allow you to "relive moments from the film and play as classic characters from one of the most iconic and important horror films of all time." They are being developed alongside Compass International Pictures and Further Front, and one of the two is being built in Unreal Engine 5.

Let's Speculate - Dead By Daylight-style, Or Survival Horror?

The big question is what these two games will look like. The latest trend with video game adaptations has been asymmetrical horror in the vein of Dead by Daylight, with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Friday the 13th, and Evil Dead all following a similar trend.

You can read my thoughts on Texas and Killer Klowns in the two reviews linked, but in short: they are great games.

One of the two Halloween titles could easily follow suit, especially with the press release saying that you'll play as "classic characters", plural. It wouldn't be Myers' first foray into the genre, either, as we saw him debut in Dead by Daylight as "The Shape".

That still leaves the second game, however. I doubt we'll see two asymmetrical Dead by Daylight-like adaptations, especially given how competitive the genre already is. But we have so little to go off of, so it could be anything—maybe it's an adaptation of the movie in the vein of a Supermassive game like Until Dawn? Perhaps it's more of a survival horror akin to Resident Evil and Silent Hill? We'll just have to wait and see.

Whatever the case, it sounds like the two games will focus on the original film that started it all rather than the myriad sequels that followed. That does at least give us an idea as to their setting and characters, but that's still very little to go off of.

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Evil Dead: The Game

Fighting Shooter Systems OpenCritic Reviews Top Critic Avg: 74/100 Critics Rec: 53% Released May 13, 2022 ESRB m Developer(s) Saber Interactive Publisher(s) Saber Interactive Engine unreal engine 4 Multiplayer Local Co-Op
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