![]() Walking out of the preview, I felt that Saber Interactive knocked it out of the park in multiple ways, but my biggest takeaway was the sense of agency that the gameplay provides on both the survivor and killer sides.įor starters, on the survivor side, you’re given the option to select a character that fits into one of four categories: Leader, Warrior, Hunter, or Support. One important question I had when going into the preview was “How is this game going to stand out from its peers in the asymmetrical multiplayer space?” The genre is already well-known for hits like Behaviour Interactive’s Dead By Daylight, and is becoming further saturated with upcoming titles like Gun Media’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre game. If you’re feeling a bit more sadistic, you can opt to play as The Kandarian Demon, which gives you the ability to control and summon Deadites to hinder and destroy the survivor team before they have a chance to use the Necronomicon to open a portal and excise the evil. Just expect to hear a lot of quips from Bruce Campbell, who returned to reprise his role along with almost all of the original cast members from the films and television series. The survivor team is packed with familiar faces, including multiple iterations of Ash Williams as he appears throughout the Evil Dead series, meaning if you want to play Avengers multiverse style as a team of four different Ashes, the choice is yours. In the case of EVIL DEAD: THE GAME, four players select a character from the roster of Ash Williams and his cohorts from across the Evil Dead franchise (the “Survivor” team) to face one player who controls the all-powerful Kandarian Demon (the “Killer” team). ![]() EVIL DEAD: THE GAME is asymmetrical multiplayer at its best.įor those unfamiliar, asymmetrical multiplayer is a gameplay paradigm that heavily skews the power dynamic between two opposing teams. But as someone who fits into both camps who recently spent an hour with the developers kicking Deadite ass (and kicking ass as Deadites), I can happily report that Saber Interactive has pulled it off. But on top of that, transcending the medium of film and television and adapting it into a gaming genre as volatile as asymmetrical multiplayer? One would naturally question how Saber Interactive could possibly appease every possible audience with EVIL DEAD: THE GAME, from veteran film fans to savvy gamers who want a unique and engaging experience. The idea of synthesizing all of the moving pieces of the Evil Dead series into one cohesive package is one vicious, behemoth Deadite in itself. Neil remarked in his retrospective of Duke 3D how the era of action films that Duke parodied has slipped away, leaving Duke now feeling out of place. Given the response to DNF and Duke’s hiatus (aside from a few cameo appearances), the question of whether we’ll see everyone’s favourite alien-stomping one-liner machine again is still out there. I hope this somehow resurrects this version of the game by showing the world how awesome it would have been…” “The whole team that worked with me deserves to see this released into the wild. “In 2008, when I was working for the good folks at Janimation in Dallas Tx, we were hired by Gearbox to create a vertical slice (an animated version of what the game will look like) for the game ‘Duke Nukem Begins’, a Duke origin story,” says Punchatz. The game was eventually shuttered due to legal issues, but not before a trailer had been produced teasing the prequel.ĭirector Gregor Punchatz, who also worked as a modeler on the original Doom games and Rise of the Triad, had previously leaked bits and pieces of the trailer back in 2019, but has now uploaded the whole thing to his YouTube channel. ![]() So, why are we talking about it? Well, during this whole nightmare, Gearbox had in the works a prequel for Duke Nukem 3D entitled Duke Nukem Begins. Yes, Duke’s follow-up to the seminal Duke Nukem 3D went through several years of development, two developers, and several fans’ tolerance levels before finally being released to middling reviews in 2011. If you’ve been following gaming over the past couple of decades, you’re probably aware of Duke Nukem Forever.
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