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Senua's Saga: Hellblade II is Set in Iceland, Will Be Much Larger in Scope
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II is the second game to come out of the partnership between Xbox and Ninja Theory, the acclaimed developers behind Heavenly Blade and DmC: Devil May Cry. Hellblade II will continue the journey of Senua started in the first game, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, which released in 2017. Sadly, it seems like the anticipated sequel is still far off from release. However, at the Xbox Games Showcase yesterday, we received a few interesting new details from Ninja Theory about the sequel's interesting setting and ambitions.
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While we didn't get a new trailer for Senua's Saga: Hellblade II, Ninja Theory did offer a kind of developer diary on what their plans are for the sequel. Firstly, it will be set in Iceland, with a far more expansive and ambitious world than the first game. Ninja Theory showed plenty of real-world locations from Iceland which they lifted inspiration from, and will most likely be areas we'll see recreated in the final product. Hellblade II will have players apparently travel "hundreds of miles seamlessly across Iceland", which sounds like it might be targeting an open world. Check out the developer diary below:
Ninja Theory's Tameem Antoniades went into a bit more detail about how they managed to capture Iceland. "Rather than using Google Images or concept arts, I thought it would be much more interesting to take the filmic approach and location scout. So, we contacted Saga film and over 2 weeks we went to 40 different locations and we narrowed those 40 locations down to a journey Senua could take across [Iceland]," said Antoniades. "So, the goal from here is to capture that sense of awe and epic of Senua's journey as she travels hundreds of miles seamlessly across Iceland and reproduce it, recreate it. A ninth-century version of Iceland that is as real and immersive as possible, and this is the approach we're taking with everything in Hellblade II. Everything should be based on something real."
Hellblade II isn't the first game to take inspiration from Iceland as a setting. Last year, Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding also drew a lot of inspiration from Iceland in its open world design, and for the most part, looked quite similar. Ninja Theory might make changes to the landscapes in order to better represent a 19th-century setting, so we'll have to see how that works out.
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II is currently in development for Xbox Series X.
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