Spiritual successors to basic games have been all the trend over the previous few years, and the newest is GRAVEN, which owes a bit to Hexen II. Developed by Slipgate Ironworks and co-published by 3D Realms and 1C Entertainment, the game is being billed as a “dark-fantasy action-adventure FPS.” GRAVEN casts gamers within the function of a priest from the Orthogonal Order. After the priest’s daughter is sacrificed by a heretic, the priest retaliates and finds himself exiled in shame. In order to search out peace, the priest is shipped on a mission by the Creator to hunt 4 heretical sects.
“GRAVEN began as a game we had often dreamed of,” stated Frederik Schreiber, game director on Graven in a press launch. “‘What would a spiritual successor to a Dark Fantasy series such as Hexen have looked like if it was made in 1998 in the original Unreal engine?’ We think the answer is GRAVEN. We hope you do too.”
Those seeking to benefit from the title solo can just do that, however GRAVEN will assist split-screen co-op for 2 gamers, in addition to four-player on-line co-op. The game will boast three areas with over 30 distinctive enemies, and greater than 30 weapons and spells to dispatch them with. Players can even use these spells to work together with the game’s world as a way to resolve puzzles. As gamers purchase new talents, they’re going to be capable to backtrack to find new secrets and techniques within the game’s areas. It appears that gamers may also have some freedom in how they discover the world, as they take up missions by listening to the townspeople and tackle the threats that plague them.
All in all, GRAVEN sounds fairly bold! Spiritual successors have been a good way for gamers to expertise games impressed by franchises which may have been forgotten through the years. It stays to be seen whether or not or not GRAVEN will handle to ship the kind of expertise that Hexen II followers have been craving through the years, however Slipgate Ironworks appears intent on filling that void. For now, followers will simply have to attend and see!
GRAVEN is about to launch in 2021 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, and PC.
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