A Game Based On John Carpenter’s Halloween Poses A Tricky Question In The Horror Genre
John Carpenter, noted gamer and part-time horror legend, is returning to Halloween, the iconic slasher he directed (and, perhaps more famously, scored) in 1978, which birthed a landmark horror franchise. This time, however, he’s doing it with a controller in his hands. As revealed today, the director is teaming with Boss Team, the developers of 2022’s Evil Dead game, to bring Halloween to life in the form of not one, but two horror games.
Though we don’t know much about either game yet, the studio teased players will be able to “relive moments from the film and play as classic characters from one of the most iconic and important horror films of all time.” The team also revealed that one of the games is being built in Unreal Engine 5, and that it’s in early development.
Presumably, this is the bigger of the two projects and it sounds like it’s years away. We ought to also assume this is an asymmetrical horror multiplayer game, as rights holders are eager to bring their IP to games right now and this genre has become the popular method of doing so. With probably years before the game arrives, the team has time to figure out how to solve what seems to be its most burning question: