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‘STALKER’ Gets a Survival Horror Successor in ‘Areal’
I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never played a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game. I’m not sure why, seeing as it’s right up my alley, genre-wise. I have no real reason to have skipped a series that combines the post-apocalyptic and survival horror genres, but I did. Thankfully, West Games is giving me, and gamers like me, a chance to redeem ourselves with Areal, a spiritual successor to the long-dormant S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.
If you’re worried they’ll mess it up, don’t be, because the studio is comprised of developers who worked on the series, as well as the similarly themed Metro: Last Light.
Areal hit Kickstarter yesterday with the very modest goal of raising $50,000 by July 24.
According to a description on the game’s Kickstarter page, Areal “features a massive and intricately detailed open world environment that is extremely varied and colorful, even though it’s set in a post-apocalyptic setting. Areal depicts a future where civilization has fallen apart due to an unearthly material called Metamorphite, which eventually spreads, corrupts and infects the whole world. The source of Metamorphite comes from a meteor that impacted the earth long ago, and it is the site of constant conflict and bloodshed.”
Areal is slated for a September 2015 release on PC, Max, Linux, PS4, Xbox One and Wii U.
If you’d like to support it, you can do so on the game’s Kickstarter page.
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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