The sand plague is back, and it turns out itshorrors look even better in 4K.
Ice-Pick Lodge droppeda short and moderately grotesque announcement trailerthat lets on a lot aboutPathologic 3, the much anticipated sequel toPathologic 2(2019).
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The new title has big shoes to fill, after the first game revolutionized thesurvival horrorgenreand reached maturity with the second entry.
Plague Mondays
The trailer opens with the average Monday of a rural town, withcheerful thingslike kids playing in the street while a corpse danglesfrom a post over them.
This time around,you play the role of Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky, a big city doctorwith a posh aura and a lotmore choices and tasksthan in previous games.
Sincethe town is dyingslowly of a horrifying plague, theBachelor has to handle both the spread of the disease today, and an eventual cure.
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Pathologic 3lets you close down sectors of the townusing patrols to enforce them, and gives you authority to mandate quarantines.
Keeping the infected at bay is only half the jobthough, and it will be to no avail unless you find a cure.
PlayingPathologic 3does not require a virology degree, but you need a willingness towork with primitive tools at the local labin order to understand the pathogen, then roll out a cure for it.
Back to the Grim Future
The volume of generic multiverse and time-travel media is overwhelming, but fortunatelythe developers of Pathologic have avoided taking the lazy route.
There will be no Marvel magical do-over button available,with trips to the past being more introspective.
Like in the prosecutor’s monologue in Albert Camus' The Stranger, these flashbacks help you understandwhat actions or events led to the mess you are in, and what the future holds.
Ice-Pick Lodge have decided not to touch the winning formula for the rest of the game, with the player still giventwelve days to make a difference.
TheSteam pageforPathologic 3isbeautifully chaotic in its writing, committing to the franchise’strademark psychological horror.
The tentativePathologic 3release date is 2025, but maybe the Bachelor can travel to next year and tell us what can be done today to make sure it happens.
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