Lunacy Video games, a studio based in September 2022 by Hellgate: London creator Invoice Roper, has signed a licensing settlement with HanbitSoft to create a brand new AAA sport within the Hellgate franchise for console and PC, the corporate introduced. Codenamed Hellgate: Redemption, the sport might be set in an undisclosed a part of the franchise’s alternate historical past, demon-apocalypse world.
“I’ve dreamed of returning to the franchise we created again in 2007 for a lot of, a few years,” stated Lunacy Video games CEO and co-founder Invoice Roper in a press launch. “I’ve at all times felt I had unfinished enterprise with the Hellgate IP, which is why our codename for the mission is Hellgate: Redemption.”
Roper continued, “Through the use of Unreal Engine 5, cloud-based sport servers, as many off-the-shelf options as potential, and nice co-development partnerships, we’re placing each growth greenback towards gameplay and innovation. We’re retaining core gameplay and lore parts of Hellgate: London in our present design, however our intent is to construct an thrilling new expertise that takes benefit of the quite a few advances the trade has seen over the previous 17 years because the authentic sport launched.”
Right here is an outline of the unique sport, through Lunacy Video games:
Hellgate: London is an influential sport that was forward of its time in quite a few methods. It pioneered the Looter Shooter style, that includes randomly generated ranges that demanded a proprietary 3D engine with real-time lighting assist, and employed a enterprise mannequin that was distinctive on the time, now well known as a Battle Cross. That period of gaming even required the formation of a second firm to construct and function the net portion of Hellgate: London.