Helldivers 2 was one among Sony’s greater hits of 2024, catapulting its developer, Arrowhead Studio, to an surprising degree of fame. Why are we speaking about this on a Nintendo website? Nicely, whereas the group shooter won’t share all that a lot DNA with the Home of Mario, one of many studio’s previous recreation ideas does: an arcade rail shooter impressed by… watch for it… Star Fox.
That’s in response to Arrowhead CCO and Helldivers 2 artistic director Johan Pilestedt, who, in a New 12 months’s publish on Twitter, requested followers what they’re hoping to see from the studio sooner or later, whereas highlighting among the staff’s earlier prototypes (thanks for the heads up, Eurogamer).
Replying to at least one fan’s suggestion for a “Star Fox-style recreation”, Pilestedt revealed that Arrowhead had as soon as pitched an idea for precisely that. Tentatively titled “Eagles of Democracy”, the studio CCO said that the sport would “mainly attempt to seize Star Fox” in its mixture of arcade and grounded gameplay, and it even went so far as constructing a prototype in Unreal to showcase it.
Pilestedt shared the next photographs of the high-flying mission which, satirically, by no means made it off the bottom:
We take into account it not possible that something from the Sony-published Helldivers staff will make its manner over to a Nintendo console any time quickly, however the mere point out of Star Fox has us as soon as once more pining for a sequence reboot — come on, Nintendo, the Wii U entries had been launched nearly 10 years in the past!
Arrowhead just lately got here underneath fireplace for the discharge of the Helldivers 2 X Killzone crossover, thought of by many to be drastically overpriced. The studio later took the blame for the pricing, releasing the second wave of the crossover at no cost.
