Zero Hour made a big sufficient splash on Steam final 12 months with tense tactical FPS motion. Now developer-publisher AttritoM7 Productions is transferring 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 night time. Enter BLACKWOOD.
That’s a killer pitch (pun supposed), so let’s simply give attention to the gritty reveal trailer first:
Somebody obtained uninterested in 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 players may even discover quite a lot of 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 excellent.
“You play as a seemingly odd retailer proprietor, managing your small DVD store in an genuine recreation of New York, 2012. However when night time falls, you descend into town’s underworld as a contract killer, caught between survival, morality, and a previous that refuses to remain buried.”
In fact, fashionable gunplay is on the centre of BLACKWOOD’s motion, with dives, rolls, and slides maintaining issues kinetic, however the builders are additionally paying particular consideration to contextual takedowns, with over 30 promised at launch.
As for its measurement, it seems the sport will observe a conventional mission-based construction with “cinematic storytelling.” Maybe extra shocking is the promise of RPG and lightweight administration components as this store-owner-turned-assassin (or perhaps it’s the opposite manner round?) tries to be regular through the day. Color us very intrigued.
BLACKWOOD is releasing on PC through Steam at some stage in Q3 2026. No console variations have been introduced.
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