Asymmetrical PvP is all the rage these days, especially among licensed horror games for some reason—a new 3v1 Saw game just got revealed yesterday—but what if I want to pick up my knife and carve up some innocent people without the social pressures of online competition?
I never thought I’d say this, but Michael Myers has the solution I’m looking for.
A trailer was shown at today’s Future Games Show teasing the upcoming Halloween game’s solo campaign, a mode untethered to the online PvP. Unlike, say, a Halloween movie, it seems like players will follow the POV of Myers himself, stabbing and stalking to their heart’s content as weary narrators recount how scary you are.
There are only brief clips of gameplay, but it looks the way you might expect a game with Michael Myers as the star to look: lots of stabbing and walking forward menacingly. If developer IllFonic pulls it off, I imagine it’ll touch on a similar appeal to reverse-horror gorefests like Carrion and Manhunt: tense action games all about playing with your food, so to speak.
I’m curious to see how long and narrative-heavy it will be, given that it’s set to cover Myers’ “origin story.” (I always thought his origin story was just that he was an evil baby who grew up to be an evil, scary man).
Dead by Daylight and this game’s predecessor, IllFonic’s Friday the 13th game, had no substantive single-player modes to speak of, but the slashing in these sorts of games is satisfying, albeit a bit simple. I can’t imagine it’ll beget much comparison to more traditional horror games given that you play as the killer, so we could be in for something novel here.
Halloween: The Game releases Sep. 8 later this year, and is available to wishlist on Steam.
