Summary
- Two new games based on the Halloween horror film franchise have been announced.
- While details are currently scarce, one game is being created in Unreal Engine 5 with input from the original film's director, John Carpenter.
- The last licensed Halloween game was released in 1983 for the Atari 2600.
The legendary Halloween franchise is getting two new video games. John Carpenter’s Halloween is still regarded by many as one of the greatest slasher films ever made, spawning an entire film franchise with numerous sequels and reboots. The majority of these films are centered around Michael Myers, a masked serial killer who may or may not be the living embodiment of evil, and the many innocent souls caught in his murderous rampages. Halloween had a licensed video game for the Atari 2600 in 1983, though none of the film’s characters were named.
Since then, most of The Shape’s gaming appearances have been guest roles in other properties. In 2014, Michael Myers was featured as a playable character in a DLC pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts and would later join a laundry list of other famed killers of the silver screen when he was added to Dead by Daylight alongside his longtime nemesis Laurie Strode. Last October, Michael was added to Fortnite as part of the Halloween-centric Fortnitemares 2023 event, where he was joined by Jack Skellington of Nightmare Before Christmas fame.
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Michael Myers is finally getting a starring role in a video game after almost 35 years, as two official Halloween video game projects have been announced. According to IGN, these titles will be published by Boss Team Games, the company behind 2022’s Evil Dead: The Game, and are being developed in conjunction with the producers of the Halloween franchise, Compass International Pictures and Further Front. Details are scarce as of this writing, but one of the projects is reportedly being built using Unreal Engine 5, with John Carpenter himself said to be assisting.
2 New Halloween Games Are In Development
John Carpenter is a huge gaming fan himself, having shared his love of titles like Dead Space and Fallout 76 as a well as struggles with The Last of Us 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2. Last year, it was announced that he was partnering with Saber Interactive for a video game of his own, a horror shooter titled Toxic Commando. While speaking about the latest Halloween announcement, Carpenter said that he is thrilled to bring Michael Myers to life in a video game and hopes to “scare players silly.”
One of these new Halloween games will allow players to relive moments from the original movie and control classic characters, though it isn’t clear if this includes Laurie or Michael himself. The possibilities for both of these games are endless, with one potential option being an asymmetrical horror title in the style of Alien: Isolation. All that is known so far is Michael Myers is returning in two new Halloween projects, meaning that gamers should get ready to face one of cinema’s most ruthless killers in the virtual world.
- Release Date
- October 18, 2018
- Runtime
- 106 minutes
- Director
- David Gordon Green
- Writers
- David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, Jeff Fradley, Debra Hill, John Carpenter
- Producers
- David Thwaites, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Blum, John Carpenter, Malek Akkad, Zanne Devine, Bill Block
- Prequel(s)
- Halloween
Cast
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Jamie Lee CurtisLaurie Strode -
Judy GreerKaren -
Andi MatichakAllyson -
James Jude CourtneyThe Shape
