The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes has got a new trailer and a release date which is October 22nd, just in time for some Halloween scares. The new trailer is narrated but the ever excellent P
Following the success of Until Dawn, developer Supermassive Games announced The Dark Pictures Anthology, a series of isolated horror stories that are heavily influenced by player choice and branching story paths. So far, two games in this series have been released - Man of Medan and Little Hope. The newest entry, House of Ashes, is set to arrive later this year. I had the opportunity to check out an early preview of what’s coming in The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.
The cost of war
As teased in the first trailer for The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, the game is set over in the Middle East, during the height of the Iraq War in the year 2003. A group of soldiers is sent on a mission to uncover some chemical weapons that had been picked up on a satellite. During a shootout with Iraqi soldiers, an earthquake sends forces from both sides underground.
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It’s almost time to return to the The Dark Pictures Anthology and this time we’re going underground to the House of Ashes. Like previous title in the anthology series, House of Ashes is based on real world legends; Man of Medan was based on the story of the Ourang Medan, Little Hope explored the Salem and Andover witch trials, but House of Ashes goes back much further in time to uncover its creatures that are lurk in the darkness.
Despite the source of its ancient horror, the game itself is set in the year 2003, near the end of the the Second Iraq War. A team comprising of the C.I.A., Air Force, and U.S. Special Forces, is trawling the Middle East hunting for those elusive weapons of mass destruction we all heard about at the time, sniffing around for an underground chemical weapons depot that has been located by a satellite scanning the area. Obviously there’s no WMDs to be found, but they do find something else.