The first-person hack-and-slash game has undergone a complete overhaul

May 1, 2014 22:45 GMT  ·  By

Techland has announced that its upcoming dark fantasy game Hellraid has gone through an overhaul and is now headed for next-gen consoles, in addition to its release on PC, sometime during 2015, with Steam Early Access planned for this fall.

Hellraid has been expanded by a large margin since its reveal last year, remaining faithful to its core gameplay experience of first-person co-op slasher, but with new features and technological upgrades implemented.

Techland is now ready to unveil the game once again with a brand-new gameplay trailer that shows off the talented team's efforts and the contributions that the community made to the upcoming game.

Hellraid will offer three different modes for players to enjoy, the first of which will be the Story Mode, allowing players to explore the game world and repel the forces of Hell. The Mission Mode will offer a highly replayable experience with more focus on arcade action and leaderboards, with players struggling to chain together the longest combos and hoard the most points.

The completely new Arena Mode will pose a veritable challenge, offering a survival gameplay experience with wave after wave of unrelenting demonic hordes to fend off. All of the modes will be available both in single-player as well as in multiplayer co-op mode, supporting up to four players.

Gamers will be able to customize their characters with various armor pieces, clothing and accessories, and the class-free skill tree will permit them to develop a demon hunter that accommodates their own play style and preferences, by combining various active and passive abilities that are conveniently divided into intersecting paths that follow the classical dungeon crawling tenets of strength, agility and magic.

Developer Techland has greatly improved the combat system, now featuring both one-handed and two-handed melee weapons, shields, magic staves and ranged weapons, allowing players to engage the forces of Hell with a variety of fighting styles and moves, with counter-attacks and parries as well as deadly charges, offering a complex and immersive experience, complete with both offensive and defensive magic spells.

Hellraid also features crafting, interactive environments, destructible objects and environmental traps, as well as highly adaptive enemy AI, in order to provide an engrossing and testing gameplay experience.

The action role-playing game is being developed using Techland's proprietary technology, the same one utilized by the next-gen zombie survival game Dying Light, which allows the title to benefit from a physics-based lighting system and much more detailed locations and character models, as well as more complex animations and advanced particle effects.

Hellraid will be released on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC in 2015, with Steam Early Access kicking off this autumn.