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Shadows of the Damned launched for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2011, and by all accounts it bought terribly. A collaboration between Suda51 and Shinji Mikami, on paper it is a mission that ought to have bought decently: a surreal third-person shooter impressed by Kafka and straight-to-VHS schlock? No surprise EA revealed it!
Nicely really, the trailer above—which celebrates the approaching launch of the sport’s PC debut—goes a bit of manner in the direction of explaining why it bought poorly. Console video games in 2011 had been all about macho gray shooters, not no matter that’s. Unsurprisingly, it is since established a cult following, so hopefully the brand new version meets a greater reception come October when it’s going to launch on Steam.
Whereas the trailer is definitely bracing and classy, it kinda undersells how crude—or let’s simply say silly—Shadows of the Damned might be on a moment-to-moment foundation. It straddles the road between intentionally and inadvertently dumb, and whereas the artwork fashion, the temper, and the general presentation are great-verging-brilliant, it is positively not shooter if that is what you are on the lookout for.
It is good to see the sport re-emerge, despite the fact that it wasn’t fairly what Mikami and Suda51 had in thoughts when setting out. Mikami later bemoaned EA’s unfavorable affect on the event of the sport, whereas additionally noting that if they’d caught to Suda51’s preliminary imaginative and prescient it in all probability would have bought even worse.
The brand new model of Shadows of the Damned options unspecified “new content material”, New Sport Plus, some new costumes, and releases October 31. In associated information, the Lollipop Chainsaw remaster remains to be on the way in which.
