‘Blair Witch’ Is Being Turned Into A Video Game

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Perhaps the third time’s the attraction: The Blair Witch franchise has by no means been capable of repeat the success of 1999’s The Blair Witch Project — a no-budget faux documentary horror movie that made Star Wars cash 20 years again. But it hasn’t been for need of making an attempt. The newest stab: a Blair Witch online game, which was introduced at this weekend’s E3.

The sport can be a first-person survival-horror, and it seems to be set earlier than the occasions of the unique film, wherein a documentary crew went into the Maryland woods to discover the titular menace and found it was, sadly, actual. As per the sport’s press launch:

It’s 1996. A younger boy disappears within the Black Hills Forest close to Burkittsville, Maryland. As Ellis, a former police officer with a troubled previous, you be a part of the search. What begins as an bizarre investigation quickly turns into an limitless nightmare as you confront your fears and the Blair Witch, a mysterious power that haunts the woods.

No phrase on whether or not the sport will contain you having to wield a wobbly mid-’90s camcorder, however hopefully the graphics are a bit higher than they have been within the preliminary film.

A Blair Witch online game is smart — maybe moreso than the non-mockumentary sequel, Blair Witch: Book of Shadows, which was launched a yr after the primary one, and even the 2015 reboot, referred to as merely Blair Witch. Both of these movies tanked on the field workplace, successfully killing a horror franchise that would, like most of its form, spawn limitless sequels and revivals.

The sport can be out there for XBOX One and PCs on August 30.

(Via EW)