They Hunger: Lost Souls - The end is near

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THE END IS NEAR...

After almost two years dedicated exclusively to the game development, without much time left for news or publicity, They Hunger: Lost Souls is now very close to release.

The Firingsquad:

Many of you may have enjoyed the great free single player-multiplayer add-ons for the original Half-Life called They Hunger, a zombie filled first person horror action game that were developed by Neil Manke and Einar Saukas. The two men released three chapters of They Hunger (they are generally considered to be the best third party single player add-ons for Half-Life) along with a deathmatch mod for the game several years ago. Howeve, you may not be aware that for a long time now both men and a small dev team called Black Widow Games have been working on They Hunger: Lost Souls, a new stand alone horror-action game that uses Valve's Source engine. They first announced their plans to the public about a year ago but have remained silent about the status of the game for the past several months. Today, we have some exclusive new screenshots for They Hunger: Lost Souls along with a new update on the game from Einar Saukas. Saukas told us that part of the reason for the lack of new info and screenshots for the game is that the team wants to keep the mystery of what happens in They Hunger: Lost Souls and not reveal too much beforehand. They also are a small team and would rather work on finishing the game rather than do a lot of advanced publicity. However they have graciously given us an update on the status of the title. Here is a snip:

The game is now very close to release. From our previous screenshots, you can see the biggest issue we had was the lack of proper zombies. We were using "placeholder" models as temporary replacements for zombies during most of the development process, so we could continue working on other areas while we didn't have enough people to model and animate new zombies. But in the last few months we were able to focus on the game pending issues, especially additional models and animations. You can see the difference in these latest images.

Our work is concentrated now on game improvements overall. There isn't much left to do, but the game still needs lots of small details and tweaks that are very time consuming. We understand our fans are anxious to play it, but after about 2 years of development, it doesn't make sense to rush its release now and sacrifice quality, when the game is so close to be finished. We still don't have an official release date, but we can say it will be "very soon".

Source:

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12936

So.. long time no see. Latest update dates from april..

But to be honest, I couldn't give a shizzle. The memories of the TH series are still fresh and I just cant wait for this release. Only problem ill have is that my machine might not be able to run it but whatever.

I know theres a lot of critisism about the new game because black widow games is ging to charge the fans but i dont really see the evil in that, since they made a good effort for it and have proven to be good gamemakers.

The only thing I really dont like is the fact that they didnt update the site and then go tell us that there was no time to update. Bullshizzle of course.

Anyhow,

The end is near... Discuss!

[insta]

I'm looking very much forward to it and I'll put down the money for it as soon as the preload is ready

[st0lve]

Pff, Teddy is still working on some of the Zombie models. I doubt that it's THAT near

[Thrik]

name drop alert

[PhilipK]

yeah will be nice to see the end result.

[D3ads]

It's looking a lot more impressive than what it was before but there's still very little media to go on, we'll just have to see.

[st0lve]

ps it costs money

[Section_Ei8ht]

I thought the original TH games were overrated.

[atrocity]

I'm pretty excited about it. Can't wait to see the zombie goodness in action

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ps it costs money

so? hows that een arguement?

[TeddyBear]

Pff, Teddy is still working on some of the Zombie models. I doubt that it's THAT near

All models are done. It's just cosmetics left and I work very fast

[Zacker]

I was not a huge fan of the original episodes and I haven't heard anything new about this one which should make this different. It is however always cool to see when modders are able to actually make a commercial game out of their mod.

[robert.briscoe]

yeah im looking forward to it! someone made some reeeeally good models in it too

[dux]

I have seriously high expectations for this. Don't let me down

[skdr]

yeah im looking forward to it! someone made some reeeeally good models in it too

Like always, good models forgives terrible gameplay/story.