9 Upcoming Must-Play PS4 Exclusives

7. Hellblade

The three tenets of Hellblade€™s development are €œninja-class combat, strong character stories, and a unique art vision.€ In an Official PlayStation blog post, Ninja Theory goes on to make multiple mentionings of how €œuncompromising€ their combat is, which altogether sounds pretty€ uncompromising. We€™re not surprised, considering the pedigree. DMC: Devil May Cry. Enslaved. Most directly, Heavenly Sword. Just look at those Greeky red locks! Are you Greekin€™ out right now? We are. We€™re talking about some of the slickest fighting systems around, some tastily tight controls and exceptional acting. Heavenly Sword€™s main bad guy was played by Mr. Precious himself, the lord of the ring, Andy Serkis. Enslaved and DMC more than held their own with incredibly expressive characters, stellar voice-acting and lifelike animations. Ninja Theory has labeled Hellblade an €œindependent AAA€ game. It€™s a solo endeavor, €œdeveloped and published independently but with all the quality and production values of any AAA game on the market.€ Set in a Hellish Underworld €“ full of blades, no doubt €“ Hellblade will be a welcome slasher, button-masher beat-em-up to the PS4€™s wide open list of genres to fill. If we had to take a wack at cracking the teaser trailer€™s code, we€™d say the protagonist, Senua, is summoning some kind of change in reality. Kneeling or praying with her sword firmly staked in the center of a simple, stone shrine, every shadow crawls rapidly across the screen as the daylight rushes above. A corpse-y body hangs before her, tethered between two pillars. As it breathes a wakening breath, the twisted black clouds swirl behind it . Are they another dimension? A -- Hellish dimension? With blades? We€™d bet her Greeky locks!
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