Zero Hour made a big sufficient splash on Steam final yr with tense tactical FPS motion. Now developer-publisher AttritoM7 Productions is shifting to the streets of New York circa 2012 to take us to a shady underworld the place a DVD retailer proprietor hunts down assassination targets at evening. Enter BLACKWOOD.
That’s a killer pitch (pun meant), so let’s simply give attention to the gritty reveal trailer first:
Somebody bought bored with ready for Lionsgate to greenlight a correct third-person action-adventure John Wick online game, it appears, and also you gained’t hear us complain. Veteran avid gamers can even discover various strands of Max Payne DNA in there, and since Treatment’s remakes of the unique two video games are nonetheless a methods off, the timing on BLACKWOOD feels good.
“You play as a seemingly strange retailer proprietor, managing your small DVD store in an genuine recreation of New York, 2012. However when evening falls, you descend into town’s underworld as a contract killer, caught between survival, morality, and a previous that refuses to remain buried.”
After all, trendy gunplay is on the centre of BLACKWOOD’s motion, with dives, rolls, and slides retaining issues kinetic, however the builders are additionally paying particular consideration to contextual takedowns, with over 30 promised at launch.
As for its dimension, it seems the sport will comply with a standard mission-based construction with “cinematic storytelling.” Maybe extra stunning is the promise of RPG and light-weight administration parts as this store-owner-turned-assassin (or perhaps it’s the opposite method round?) tries to be regular through the day. Color us very intrigued.
BLACKWOOD is releasing on PC by way of Steam throughout Q3 2026. No console variations have been introduced.
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