The next great ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ story may very well be a video game. Game studios, Gun Interactive, have announced their newest title will be ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre.’ Gamers familiar with Gun will know that they made the asymmetrical survival horror game ‘Friday the 13th.’ Gun has supported it with DLC over the last few years and done all that they could do with that title. So now that they’ve arrived at their new title, they’re giving small bits of information here and there.
This week they’ve decided to not only tell us the names of the characters but show us the concept art for them. We also were privy to the thought process going into creating these characters. The interesting thing thus far is that these characters will have personalities and backstories. This leads us to assume that this is not another asymmetrical horror game, but something deeper. Ismael Vicens, who is the Executive Producer at Gun had this to say about the cast of victims characters.
Credit: Gun Interactive“When we sat down to think about the Victims in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, we had two things we kept circling back to – will people enjoy playing these characters as people, and do these characters make sense as a group that would be friends? The first question is really important; you’ve got to give them enough personality for players to latch on too while leaving room for them to identify with and inhabit these individuals.
It means we dove as deep into thinking about them as we did the new Family members. The second answer is helped along by the first. We wanted a diverse group of friends that would – surface level – strongly correlate to differing playstyles. Thinking about those relationships (Who is better friends with who? Why are these two friends?) helped us to create a group that feels natural together, even if they’re very different from one another.”
–Ismael Vicens, Executive Producer, Gun Interactive
For more information on the game, you can visit the official page and read up on the storyline and more information from the creators.
