Techland announced that they are moving their upcoming dark fantasy action first-person co-op slasher, Hellraid from previous gen to current gen development.
The game will run on a new ‘Chrome Engine 6’, which allows it to take advantage of PS4, Xbox One and PC hardware and it went through a overhaul with new features and technology.
It offers three different game modes. In the Story Mode, players will explore the world and try to repel forces of Hell. The highly-replayable Mission Mode will put more focus on arcade-style fun of climbing up leaderboards, creating the longest combos and beating high scores, while the completely new Arena Mode will offer survival gameplay with waves of deadly demonic hordes to fend off. All these modes will be available in both single-player and 2-4 players co-op.
Players will be able to create and customize their characters with armor, clothes, and accessories such as amulets. Thanks to a new class-free skill tree, they will develop a demon slayer perfectly suited to their play style by combining various active and passive abilities divided into intertwined paths of combat, magic and agility.
The developer has also improved the combat system, which now features one- and two-handed melee weapons, shields, magic staves and ranged weapons.
With diverse fighting styles, counter-attacks, parrying and dashing abilities, the melee combat in Hellraid becomes even more complex and immersive. Additionally, magic will offer a wide and diverse selection of offensive, defensive and healing spells.
“The combat experience is furthermore enhanced by weapon crafting, interactive environments, destructible objects and environmental traps, as well as challenging and adaptive enemy AI.
The game is currently undergoing a transition to the Chrome Engine 6, the latest version of Techland’s proprietary technology, which is also used by the next-gen zombie survival horror, Dying Light.
Thanks to this technology, Hellraid will benefit from a new physics-based lighting system, more detailed locations and character models, complex animations, advanced particle effects, and state-of-the-art AI systems.”
Hellraid launches in 2015 for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It will also receive a Steam Early Access release in autumn 2014, “which will be regularly updated based on players’ feedback until the final version is launched.”
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Source: Press Release