Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is coming in Q3 2014 according to the game’s official Twitter account. It’s the sequel to 2012’s Hotline Miami, the retro-but-not-retro top down action game from Dennaton Games, the company formed by Dennis Wedin and indie game legend Jonatan ‘Cactus” Söderström.
“New stuff, old stuff, weird stuff and violent stuff all converging with some surprises. Should be worth the wait.”
Hotline Miami 2 was first shown at last year’s Rezzed games event, and it looks like it will continue the disturbing violence and twisted story telling that defined the first. The game’s story looks like taking place mostly after the events of the first, looking at how Hotline Miami’s protagonist inspired more masked vigilantes to take the law into their own hands.
Hotline Miami was an impressive game. It mixed retro graphics and 80s atmosphere with tight, brutally hard ‘twitch’ gameplay. While it was as violent as videogames get, unlike most it asked gamers to think about what they were doing. At the end of every level you had to walk back through all the carnage and death before continuing, unlike most games where dead bodies just disappear after a while. You play as a nameless character who is drawn into a world of violence, murder and extortion.
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Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number won’t have the same surprise value as the first – now we’re used to the gameplay and Dennaton Games’ stoytelling – but the first was such an excellent game, we’re excited about playing more.
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[Source: Twitter]