After the success of Silent Hill 2 Remake, Bloober Group is embracing the liberty of making a recreation from entire material and treating itself with Resident Evil-like motion horror, Polish influences, and cats in its new sci-fi horror recreation Cronos: The New Daybreak. Hell yeah.
Bloober Group has been candid about its intent to make Cronos: The New Daybreak lean into motion horror versus the sluggish, creeping psychological horror that defines Silent Hill 2. Cronos co-director Wojciech Piejko instructed GamesRadar+ in April that the sport “is extra Resident Evil-ish” than Silent Hill-ish, regardless of its “deep psychological story.”
Now, in an interview with PC Gamer, lead author Grzegorz Like attracts an excellent thicker line between Silent Hill 2 and Cronos: The New Daybreak, though he nonetheless admits (as director Jacek Zięba instructed GamesRadar+ in July) “Silent Hill is in each considered one of our video games, as a result of that is what moulded us as creators.”
“We knew that this wanted to be completely different,” Like mentioned. “No extra James Sunderland, working across the place along with his picket plank, this wanted to be one thing else. We’re not solely horror followers, however we love all the pieces sci-fi and 80s. So we determined, okay, let’s deal with ourselves. Let’s make it us. Put Poland in it, the badass go well with, time journey. What would you like? What do you want? Somebody mentioned cats? Okay, let’s do cats.”
I am all about recreation builders, and creators extra typically, leaning into their identification and making one thing deeply private – and cats assist – however for my cash, Bloober has but to actually show itself as an actual pressure in horror with an authentic title. Particularly with most of its pre-Silent Hill 2 video games being mild on the gameplay, it stays to be seen what a full-blown, action-horror Bloober Group recreation appears to be like like.
After all, Bloober Group can be actively growing a remake of Silent Hill 1, which for me is a way more assured win as a result of the studio’s already confirmed itself within the remake enviornment with Silent Hill 2.
Cronos: The New Daybreak places you within the sneakers of the Traveler, navigating the post-apocalyptic Kraków district Nowa Huta, which has been ravaged by a virus known as the Change that turns people into zombie-like monsters. As a traveler, your job is to comb via the stays of civilization and use time rifts to return in time and extract victims of the Change in hopes of giving them a brand new probability for survival.
It is out on PS5, Xbox Sequence X, Swap 2, and PC on September 5, with a 48-hour early entry window for Deluxe Version adopters.
