Former Deus Ex Art Director Working on Nacon Published Game Hell Is Us
French publisher Nacon, formerly known as Bigben Interactive, has announced a new third-person action-adventure title called Hell Is Us.The game will be the first original IP for developer Rogue Factor, which has previously worked on the Warhammer 40K adjacent game Necromunda: Underhive Wars and tactical RPG Mordheim: City of the Damned. This latest venture by Rogue Factor has already been in development for several years and will be released sometime in 2023 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series consoles.
A semi-open world game, Hell Is Us takes place in a country torn apart by civil war, where brother has turned against brother. Simultaneously to this, citizens must deal with a recently occurring phenomenon known as the Calamity, which has caused supernatural creatures to appear in the land. The player sets out to uncover his past while fighting these strange monsters that seem to be immune to modern-day weapons.
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The creative director of Hell Is Us is Jonathan Jacques-Belletête, a veteran developer who formerly worked at Eidos Montreal and contributed to Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Of this new project, Jacques-Belletête stated, “Our goal with Hell Is Us is to bring back true adventure and exploration. There's no need for a detailed quest log or precise waypoint on the map: we want players to feel the thrill of adventure, guided by their feelings and instincts.”
Indeed, Nacon’s press release says that Hell Is Us will be part of a new game genre in which players find information on their own by exploring the environment. This is a move that has become increasingly popular in recent years,
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