Published by Puppet Combo’s Torture Star Video, Jordan King and Henry Hoare’s post-apocalyptic video game Night at the Gates of Hell embodies a zealous homage to zombie cinema and survival horror games of the past. Like Bloodwash, Torture Star video’s preceding game, Night at the Gates of Hell pays tribute to Italian horror cinema – this time to the gore-drenched work of Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei. Unlike its predecessor, though, Night at the Gates of Hell is combat-heavy, longer in duration, and, above all else, full of flesh-eating monstrosities!
Players of Night at the Gates of Hell take control of David, a widowed man fighting for survival in a world overrun by the undead. Throughout his journey, David meets a variety of bizarre characters, including a small child (who may in fact be an adult masquerading as a child) and a perpetually naked prisoner. Characters from Bloodwash also appear in Night at the Gates of Hell, such as the loveable nice-guy Stan and the Creepy Guy, who cameos as a zombie in the game’s second level. Adding to the game’s range of characters is a plethora of enemies, with Night at the Gates of Hell boasting eighty-five unique zombie character models: that’s more than the number of zombie character models used in Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil 2 (2019), and Resident Evil 3 (2020) combined. Read more
