A Halloween Game Powered By Unreal Engine 5 Is In Development, Gamer John Carpenter Is Involved [Video]

You can’t keep a good slasher IP down for long, as the Halloween film series will be returning in the form of two new games. These new projects–one of which is being developed in Unreal Engine 5–will be made with input from Halloween’s original director John Carpenter, and both of them are being produced at Boss Team, the studio behind the recent Evil Dead: The Video Game.

“As a huge gamer myself, I’m thrilled to help bring Michael Myers to life again in this game, and my hope is to scare you silly,” Carpenter said to IGN, adding that he’ll be “intimately involved” with the development of the games. Beyond that, Boss Studios is teasing that players will be able to “relive” moments from the film and play as classic characters.

Classic horror film franchises have been …