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Turtle Rock Delves Into ‘Back 4 Blood’ Development in New Video
Let’s get this out of the way: We already love what we see in Turtle Rock’s Back 4 Blood alpha. We’re chomping at the bit with Barbara Crampton being part of the voice cast. And yet, like you, we want more.
Well, Turtle Rock is happy to oblige with a new behind-the-scenes video delving into the developer’s vision of the game, which right away acknowledges B4B being a successor to the classic Left 4 Dead series.
For starters, the protagonists are not your typical “all walks of life” people that just so happened to be teaming up to make their way to safety as in L4D. Rather, this new group has lived in the infected world for a year, and are either tough enough to not fear the undead or are immune to their virus.
As far as gameplay goes, your characters are armed to the teeth with powerful weapons to compensate for the stronger zombies you’ll be facing. And yes, you’ll be facing off against common and mutated zombies as before. But now, there’s a wider variety of undead in Back 4 Blood.
Lastly, as was the case in L4D is the game’s replayability, which has been cranked up again, thanks to a revamped Game Director. The system will now look at player’s health, ammo and weapons in order to orchestrate a “proper” encounter for players to face.
In other words, we can’t wait. Back 4 Blood is set for release on PC on June 22, 2021.
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.