Scream has cultivated a culture of popular horror tropes in movies and TV, and gamers have long waited to see the beloved franchise make its way into modern gaming. We’re living in times where the ‘next jumpscare’ isn’t a farfetched genre. With games like Evil Dead: The Game and Friday the 13th: The Game, it’s not long until we witness Ghostface make his way into a video game title soon enough.
A recent tweet by The Tipster has fans of horror at the edge of their seats. We’re looking at an upcoming Scream game that’s been in development for a while by Supermassive – the studio behind games like The Quarry and Until Dawn.
since it's being discussed online…
— The Tipster (@thetipsterVG) September 25, 2023
based on what i heard back in May there is indeed a game based on the Scream franchise in development. I never heard of a developer at the time but in all honesty Supermassive Games lines up pretty well. pic.twitter.com/5xycWfNhZH
Scream Is Certainly in the Right Hands With Supermassive.
If the Tweet is right, our collective anxieties and anticipation for a solid Scream game are well taken care of, if Supermassive handles things. The BAFTA-winning game studio is known for masterful storytelling that blends immersive gameplay with cinematic experiments and eerie, cryptic themes. Until Dawn is one of their best-known PlayStation 4 titles, a game that weaves its stories around a group of teenagers who choose to spend their weekend at a ski lodge. The plot revolves around one of their friends disappearing, marking the beginning of a series of bizarre and ghastly events.
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If Scream is going to be part of Supermassive’s storytelling project, we can expect newer systems like the PlayStation 5 to make the best use of new technology to up the ‘horror game’ a little. If there’s something a DualSense controller’s haptic feedback and horror games have in common – it’s a guaranteed experience that stays in players’ psyche for a long time to come.
What will Supermassive’s adaptation of Scream play like?
Based on the studio’s history of mixing cinematic sequences and action-packed gameplay, we can have a few guesses about the rumoured Scream game. More importantly, there’s a lot of source material for the studio to take advantage of. The game can be set around the happenings of Scream movies that revolve around killers on a psychotic killing spree. Ghostface is rightfully the most iconic villain to come out of the series, as first seen in Scream (1996).
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A night in the woods and a bunch of teenagers with a killer on the loose may be themes that Supermassive has dabbled with in the past, but Scream’s larger-than-life stories that dive deeper into a killer’s head can serve as a canvas for innovative gameplay sequences. Switching between the survivors and Ghostface? Living through the different traumatic experiences of the killer as we explore their life? A survivor going rogue and giving birth to newfound psychopathic tendencies? There’s so much that can be done. We hope to see Supermassive make the best of this IP.
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