Has Friday the 13th: The Game made you hungry for more slasher fun?
We may not be seeing many slasher films on the big screen these days, but video games sure are making up for that on the small screen. In the wake of Gun Media and Illfonic’s Friday the 13th: The Game comes Behavior Interactive’s Dead by Daylight, a similar online multi-player slasher game that allows you to either hunt down victims or try to survive the night as a potential victim yourself.
For those wondering, yes, this is the same Dead by Daylight that was released on Steam last year, but it wasn’t until today that it was made available on Playstation 4 and XBox One. You can grab the physical release of either version for just $25.
Dead by Daylight is an asymmetrical, multiplayer (4 vs 1) horror game where one player takes on the role of a savage killer, and the other four players become survivors frantically scurrying to avoid being caught, tortured and killed. Survivors play in third-person and have the advantage of better situational awareness. The Killer plays in first-person and is more focused on their prey.
The Survivors’ goal in each encounter is to escape the Killing Ground without getting caught by the Killer – something that sounds easier than it is, especially when the environment changes every time you play.
As we told you last Halloween season, a DLC pack added to Dead by Daylight allows to play as either Michael Myers (killer) or Laurie Strode (survivor) in a special Haddonfield map, which is ripped straight out of the original Halloween. Behavior producer Mathieu Cote teased last year, “it’s based on the original movie. Michael is the ultimate stalker. So as opposed to all the other killers that we have, Michael sees you and he watches you. So the power of Michael grows as he’s stalking you. And at some point he will be able to build up that meter, that power, until he becomes evil incarnate.”
UPDATE: We’ve just been informed that the Halloween DLC is not available on consoles yet, but is expected to be added soon!
Check out the Halloween DLC trailer below and grab Dead by Daylight today!
