On its surface, the regular release of new killers, new settings, new survivors are what feeds the ever-growing popularity of “Dead by Daylight” but there’s also a growing meta-story, an underlying narrative that is slowly beginning to explain what it’s all about. “There were these notes of humor that were always there in the movies, some of them were more funny, some of them were more serious, but the level that they had in the TV show for us was just right.” “So he’s a little more aged, he’s a little more fed up with evil, but he keeps getting in trouble all the time. “ The interesting thing is that it’s Ash as he is now,” Côté said. During a weekend at a cabin, Ash uncovered the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (Book of the Dead. Wander through The Fog as Ash and escape evil once more. While this time the chainsaw is not his to wield, Ash knows how to escape gruesome death. When Campbell appears in the game it will be the Williams of “Ash vs Evil Dead.” Ash Williams, the legendary hero from the Ash vs Evil Dead horror series, has entered the realm of the Entity. “But with this guy you can’t do the character and do a semblance, you have to have Bruce Campbell.” “The same with Freddy Krueger and the same thing with Leatherface. (Halloween’s) Laurie Strode is not a likeness,” he said. “We have Michael Myers, who wears a mask so it doesn’t really matter. Williams is also the first character in the game with the originating actor’s likeness. He needed to say a few words and he says them.” “They have grunts of pain, they have screaming, screeching, but nobody speaks. “In ‘Dead by Daylight’ nobody speaks,” Côté said. While landing Campbell’s character once they were working with Lionsgate was easy, adding him to the game required breaking a number of the title’s founding rules. “We sort of came on the subject that they have the rights to ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ and we really wanted that in the game,” he said. Fortunately, as developer Behaviour Interactive approached its third year anniversary this year, they started working on another project with Lionsgate.
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