![]() ![]() Throughout the game his perception of reality deteriorates, with the corpses of his victims appearing and even speaking to him, and other mask-wearing characters appearing in his home to torment him. The casualties of Jacket’s murder spree are seemingly violent thugs, but little other explanation is offered for why he is so willing to massacre them. A rubber chicken mask is delivered to the player character – who fans have dubbed “Jacket” – which he wears while committing the atrocities, although other masks can be unlocked later which provide different boosts and abilities. Taking inspiration from the work of David Lynch and also from the 2011 movie Drive, the game puts players in control of an unnamed protagonist who receives mysterious phone calls at his apartment, encouraging him to go to various locations and slaughter the people he finds there. Hotline Miami is a top-down shooter, and combines a retro-futuristic aesthetic, fast-paced gunplay and melee combat, brutal violence, high levels of difficulty, and a psychedelic and cinematic storyline. Hotline Miami was developed by the two-man team of Jonatan Soderström and Dennis Wedin, and was initially released for Windows in 2012. How Hotline Miami Became One of the Best Games of 2012 RELATED: Hotline Miami Collection Available Now on Xbox But I’m sure some people will be horrified and others delighted.” If a new Hotline Miami game is genuinely in the pipeline, fans will be keen to see it recapture the brutal magic of the acclaimed original, rather than mirror its more divisive follow-up. For a publisher that has frequently teased a third installment in the Hotline Miami series, Devolver Digital is remarkably insistent that “there is no Hotline Miami 3.” But cryptic, contradictory tweets and joke menu screens have nonetheless fueled fans’ hopes that a sequel to Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number could be in the works, particularly after Devolver attracted a lot of investment via its recent AIM listing, including from the 5% share acquired by Sony.ĭeveloper Dennaton Games stoked the flames further when one of its co-founders tweeted in late 2020 that they were working on a new, unannounced game, and that “It is a passion project so I’m not sure who will enjoy it. ![]()
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