Several times in gaming history has the idea of expanding upon an original IP or franchise spawned a brand new series. Games like “Devil May Cry” and even the original “Doom” transformed from their intended initial presentation into something much different; and the same can be said about “Hunt: Showdown”. Instead of simply adding a co-op element to a “Darksiders” game, the developers at Crytek worked for years to implement the ideas of multiplayer action into a wholly different, yet all-too-familiar experience; giving birth to “Hunt: Showdown” in its early access/beta form in 2018. After much retooling and ironing out certain detrimental bugs, “Hunt” came out in its most up-to-date form for consoles and PC at the beginning of 2020. It’s time to go hunting for some spiders, assassins & butchers (oh my) with some first impressions of “Hunt: Showdown”.
