An ESRB itemizing has appeared for a recreation known as Hunt: Showdown 1896, doubtlessly suggesting {that a} sequel to the favored PvPvE shooter is within the works.
The score is, as you’d most likely anticipate from a followup to Hunt: Showdown, Mature 17+ owing to “blood and gore” and “violence”. The itemizing additionally warns that the sport will include in-game purchases.
Very like the primary recreation, Hunt: Showdown 1896, no matter it seems to be, can be set within the Victorian period and can revolve round using “bladed bats, golf equipment, brass knuckles, and pistols” to kill each monsters and different gamers, in accordance with the ESRB.
The itemizing goes on to explain some fairly grisly issues you can see and do in Hunt: Showdown 1896, together with “cav[ing] in zombies’ heads” and “lower[ting] off their limbs”.
In response to the ESRB, the sport will function a sort of zombie that “explodes into blood and viscera when killed”, in addition to one other one which wears “human pores and skin as a cape”. Nicely, we have all had some fairly excessive Friday nights, no?
I am not a Hunt: Showdown aficionado, however I am fairly positive the aforementioned descriptions do not neatly match any of the sport’s current monsters, so 1896 may be a followup or a brand new recreation fairly than an expanded re-release of the unique.
Sadly, we have not had an official announcement from Crytek but, so we’ll need to fall again on hypothesis and this ESRB score for now. Hopefully, we’ll hear one thing extra within the subsequent few weeks.
Hunt: Showdown 1896 will, in accordance with the ESRB web page, launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X|S when it does arrive, though no launch date is listed.
It’s, after all, doable that that is the title Crytek is giving to the current-gen model of Hunt: Showdown, which is because of arrive someday after the PS4 and Xbox One variations are sunsetted in August.
That new model is about to convey an engine change, UI enhancements, and a brand new map to the sport, amongst different issues, though Crytek has already introduced the relaunch with out referring to it as Hunt: Showdown 1896.
It is all to play for proper now, so watch this house for any additional info from Crytek. Till then, you possibly can take a look at Hunt: Showdown on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and you’ll check out our evaluation right here to see the way it shakes out.
