Evil West Release Date Delayed

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First revealed during The Game Awards 2020 by way of a snappy trailer set to a cyberpunk stylized cover of Jonny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” Flying Wild Hog’s Evil West looks to be a major standout for the latter half of 2022. Appearing to be a unique mix of God of War and Doom, the game has been on many players’ radars for over a year. However, interested parties will, unfortunately, have to wait a bit longer, as Flying Wild Hog recently announced that Evil West will be delayed to November 22.

That’s not an especially long delay; the game was originally slated to debut in late September. Yet, the two-month setback means that Evil West will be lumped in with a slew of other anticipated titles releasing during the oft-crowded holiday season. Now set to hit storefronts around the same time as big-name titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 andThe Callisto Protocol, this collaboration between Flying Wild Hog and Focus Interactive could struggle a bit to be noticed in a particularly packed period.

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Of course, both studio and publisher seem to have the best intentions in mind for not only their audience, but for their employees, as well. In a tweet posted by Focus Entertainment on August 16, Flying Wild Hog explains that it will need additional time to implement the feedback it received from those who played a demo of Evil West at PAX East, as well as to fine-tune five separate ports of the cross-gen game. Plus, in an era during which even massively-anticipated games are being delayed to avoid developer crunch, it’s encouraging to see employee-friendly philosophies embraced by studios and publishers of all sizes.

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