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.
