Ron Gilbert announced their online comic hero DeathSpank would be getting a game last year, and now we have finally got some details and screens from Hothead Games.
The ”hero to the downtrodden,” DeathSpank, will be solving puzzles Monkey Island-style but won’t shy away from mass carnage a la Diablo. It’ll have levelling, gear, melee and ranged combat.
”He just took on a life of his own,” Gilbert told 1UP. ”As we did more of the comics and we started talking about him and we started writing stuff about him – he was so interesting in the way he was a parody of things. It kind of became a natural idea: ‘We need a game for this guy.’”
Originally announced as an episodic project, DeathSpank has become a full title with no platform or release date yet given. Levelling up naturally increases the hero’s power and abilities as well as unlocking better items.
An adventure game with gut busting combat from Monkey Island’s Ron Gilbert… can you resist the call of DeathSpank? Check out 1UP’s write up on their visit to Hothead Games.
