In September 2014 Techland development studio, known for creating games like Dead island or Dying Lightannounced their new project at E3 that year: it was a first-person action game called Hellraid that transported us to a medieval fantasy world in which zombies were replaced by skeletons that they had come back to life.
We we were able to test his demo of E3 at that time in our impressions we already said of him that he left us with both desire and doubts. Just a year later, in 2015, Techland announced that it was halting the project and, while insisting that it was not really canceled, We never heard from him again. Until today.
Techland has published a teaser trailer in which he announces that this summer resurrect Hellraid from the dead; but not as a video game per se, but as a DLCof Dying Light. The video that you can see under these lines shows us a sinister arcade machine with the name of this canceled project. Although it is not revealed what type of gameplay this paid add-on will have, the developer has also published a description that gives more details about its gameplay.
New dungeons, enemies and weapons to play alone or cooperatively
"It all started with an arcade machine found by survivors at the base of the Tower while investigating a strange power signal," says the DLC description published by Techland: "None of them remembered seeing this strange device before. They pulled it out of there, climbing him up the stairs, unsuspecting of his true nature. "
After this narrative description, Techland explains that this new DLC that takes the name of its canceled project is an "experience Dying Light completely fresh "est" based on Hellraid, the canceled first-person fantasy slasher. " a dungeon map full of new enemies to slaughter with a whole new series of weapons. It can be played both solo and cooperatively.
Hellraid reach Dying Light this very summer And, although it is not specified in the trailer, it goes without saying that it will reach all the platforms on which the game is available, that is, PS4, Xbox One and PC.