The tone here is very much The Warriors, the gameplay a direct call-back to classics such as Contra, Metal Slug, Robocop and Renegade. Meaty gunfire rips through walls, splinters wood and tears human targets limb-from-limb in fantastically gory detail the game's glorious cyberpunk battlefields left a bloody mess of broken bodies and busted backdrops as your stone-cold bounty hunter shoots their way from contract to contract, taking down the bosses of various gangs as they wrestle back control from the vicious thugs and hooligans who have made every street corner and alleyway their home.Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) ![]() Police are all but powerless – fighting desperately in the face of overwhelming odds – the public is in hiding and it's now down to hardcore bounty hunters with an insatiable hunger for cold-hard cash to wade into the bloody morass and take down the thugs that have turned the city into a smouldering warzone.Įasy Trigger Games' Huntdown is a retro side-scrolling arcade shooter that takes the 16-bit stylings of the classic run n' gun games it seeks to emulate and ramps up the graphical detail and wanton destruction beautifully. We can’t wait to share Huntdown with you all, and to finally launch our tribute to old school, over the top action.On the mayhem-filled streets of a hyper-violent future version of society, marauding criminal gangs have taken control. In creating Huntdown we’ve tried to harness the best of these legendary movies to create something Stallone and Schwarzenneger would be proud of. The Heatseekers are a murderous rockabilly motorcycle club who fashion themselves on the Centurians of ancient Rome, and the NO.1 Suspects are martial arts experts controlling organised crime from casinos and nightclubs, inspired by the triads in films like Big Trouble in Little China and The Last Dragon. The Misconducts are organised hockey hooligans focused on robbery and extortion, with bosses inspired by Mad Max’s Immortan Joe ‘The Unholy Goalie’ and Sub-Zero in The Running Man (Nadja Drago). The Hoodlum Dolls are feral punks winning the gang war with the toothless authorities, who wouldn’t look out of place in Class of 1999. Each gang in Huntdown has their own unique characteristics and confronting them means different strategic gameplay. The gangs in Huntdown were first and foremost a twisted mashup of The Warriors (technically a 70s movie but who’s counting) and our nihilistic imaginations. The jaded, tough as nails ex cop is a beloved 80s trope of ours, a mish mash of action movie anti-heroes such as Snake Plissken and Stallone as Cobra, John Sawyer has a literal steel jaw, representing the silly over-the-top budget movie era. John Sawyer is an ex special forces cop who left the law behind, he’s lost so many limbs in combat he’s practically half robot. ![]() Mow Man is a modified recon droid who was stolen and empowered with banned software, creating the ultimate killing machine, an unashamed love letter to Robocop and Terminator.Īnna Conda is an ex-commando and firearms expert and a bit of a loose-cannon, trained to assassinate without question or mercy, created with cocky rebel marine Vasquez from Aliens in mind. ![]() From their snappy one liners to billowing leather trench coats, these guys were built around our childhood icons. Our 16-bit bounty hunters are modelled on classic 80s action movie heroes. We were inspired by the darkness of movies like Escape From New York, Death Race 2000 (the original) and Total Recall (original.) We also studied design from the era and tried to replicate it in the game, from art deco interiors through to black marble pillars, we wanted to create a world that’s bleak, but stylish. The city features environmental features to build the atmosphere such as steam grates, bleak urban skylines and flaming vintage sports cars. We’ve tried to build a city where replicants would feel right at home. The biggest influence on our gritty concrete jungle was Blade Runner’s masterful neo noir future Los Angeles. Huntdown plays out across 20 levels, taking our bounty hunters through a load of graffiti strewn, dystopian cityscapes. The concept and world we’ve built in Huntdown is heavily inspired by the timeless action movies and sci-fi pictures that we were raised on, and we hope we’ve done them justice. Visually, our platformer is drawn by hand, pixel by pixel, like a vintage 16-bit game but with modern, intuitive gameplay. ![]() In Huntdown you take up arms as three bounty hunters - alone or in two player co-op - cleansing the criminal gangs controlling the dystopian city. Hello! Huntdown, our retro action comedy co-op arcade shooter, is launching on PS4 on May 12, and ahead of release we wanted to give you an overview of the game, as well as how and why 80s action movies influenced the Huntdown universe.
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