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It’s About Time: Tripwire Announces ‘Killing Floor’ Sequel
Developer Tripwire Interactive has just made me a very happy person. Today, they revealed the long-awaited sequel to Killing Floor, and while the announcement didn’t come paired with a trailer or any significant amount of screenshots, it’s something.
Perhaps what’s most exciting about Killing Floor 2 is its insanely detailed gore system, which they’re touting as the most advanced gore system ever. They’re calling it MEAT (that lovely monicker stands for Massive Evisceration and Trauma).
In a chat with PC Gamer, Tripwire president and co-founder John Gibson said this “is the first time we’ve been able to develop a game from start to finish with what I would call a reasonable size staff and a reasonable size budget.”
This is thanks to the wildly successful Killing Floor, which started out as a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004, and the impressive amount of support it was given years after its release. Clearly, Tripwire knows what they’re doing.
As for when it will arrive — they’re still unsure about that. Killing Floor 2 will come to Steam Early Access eventually. It sounds like they’re taking the “it’s done when it’s done” approach employed by studios like Valve and Blizzard.
The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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