This is an escaped game where you play a babysitter on Halloween Night and a Killer named Michael Myers is on his way over to kill you after escaping Smith's Grove Sanitarium.
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Dead by Daylight developer Behavior Interactive announced today that a classic serial killer is headed to the multiplayer horror game. Halloween's Michael Meyers will be playable starting tomorrow, October 25.
Classic character Laurie Strode, who was played by Jamie Lee Curtis in the movies, is also coming to Dead by Daylight. The two characters are joined by an environment based on Haddonfield, Illinois, the setting of Halloween, and you can watch a trailer for the creepy DLC at the top of this article.
Meyers has two different phases that affect how he plays. The first is a weaker and slower version of the character with increased detection skills. Looking at survivors fills a gauge, and when it's full, Meyers enters his second phase and becomes faster and more powerful, while losing his heightened detection. You can read more about Michael and Laurie on Dead by Daylight's website.
Dead by Daylight's Halloween DLC costs $7 and releases October 25 on PC.
In GameSpot's review, Dead by Daylight scored a 6/10 for its use of tension and player knowledge to evoke terror. However, critic Joab Gilroy noted that the horror goes away once players become familiar with the game's workings.
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UPDATE 5/2/2014: The official HalloweenHalloween Michael Myers Game
movies blog is confirming our below exclusive story that The Weinstein Company is once again moving with Halloween 3D.(Original story published on April 30, 2014.)
The boogeyman is real and will return on Halloween.
Some really brief news out of Cannes has Michael Myers being resurrected. Our sources on the Cannes stomping ground tell us exclusively that The Weinstein Company is once again looking to get Halloween 3D off the ground. We don’t have the names of any writers or directors attached, although Todd Farmer and Patrick Lussier had previously been working on a screenplay. While we may be back at square one, at least the Weinstein brothers once again have Michael Myers on the brain.
It’s unclear if this would be a re-remake, or another sequel to Rob Zombie’s modern take.
John Carpenter’s 1978 classic followed a psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, who escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
The franchise has spawned nine sequels and made over $500M worldwide collectively at the box office.
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