Clive Barker’s Hellraiser is getting what its creator calls the primary “true” online game adaptation with Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival, developer Boss Workforce Video games and writer Saber Interactive introduced Tuesday. Hellraiser: Revival is described by its creators as a single-player, survival-horror motion recreation that may ship gamers to Hell, the place they’ll battle Pinhead, his fellow Cenobites, and a cult that worships the sadomasochistic demons.
Notably, Hellraiser: Revival will deliver again actor Doug Bradley, who will voice Pinhead within the new recreation.
Hellraiser: Revival casts gamers as Aidan, who wields a puzzle field often called the Genesis Configuration as he journeys to Hell (and throughout Hell on Earth) to help his lacking girlfriend and problem the Cenobites. A trailer for Hellraiser: Revival exhibits first-person gameplay in opposition to Hell’s rank and file, in addition to iconic characters like Chatterer stalking the participant.
“Engaged on the primary true Hellraiser recreation has been a enterprise deep into the recesses of my darkest imaginings,” mentioned Clive Barker, creator and creator of the Hellraiser franchise. “The dedication that Saber and Boss Workforce Video games have proven is nothing in need of outstanding. They’ve immersed themselves within the Hellraiser universe, capturing its essence—the seductive pull of struggling, the sweetness inside the grotesque—and solid a story that invitations gamers to step past the edge. I’m anticipating each the curious and the damned to expertise this new chapter within the Hellraiser mythos, the place each second balances on the point of nightmare and revelation.”
Barker’s reference to “the primary true Hellraiser recreation” seems to acknowledge previous Hellraiser tasks, like Pinhead’s earlier (and since-removed) look in Useless by Daylight and the infamously canceled Hellraiser recreation for NES. Barker has beforehand labored on his personal authentic online game worlds, together with Clive Barker’s Timeless and Clive Barker’s Jericho.
Boss Workforce Video games’ earlier work contains Evil Useless: The Recreation and retro-style video games primarily based on Halloween and Ash vs. The Evil Useless. Saber has developed and printed a handful of licensed horror video games, together with A Quiet Place: The Street Forward, Evil Useless: The Recreation, and World Struggle Z: Aftermath.
The primary Hellraiser film, which was written and directed by Barker, was launched in 1987. The movie was primarily based on Barker’s 1986 novella The Hellbound Coronary heart, and spawned a number of sequels, comedian e book spinoffs, and loads of Pinhead merchandise.
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival doesn’t have an introduced launch date, however it’s in improvement for PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X.
