Bloober’s Silent Hill 2 Team to Start Pre-Production on New Project; Audio Team Moving to Cronos: The New Dawn

While Bloober Team just announced that they’re already knee-deep developing a new horror game in Cronos: The New Dawn, it seems that’s not the only project the studio is working as, the dev team who worked on the Silent Hill 2 remake is now working on something outside of Cronos.

This was something revealed by Bloober Team in an exclusive interview with MP1st. We asked straight to the point whether Bloober is working on two projects at the same time, now that Silent Hill 2 is out, and here’s what Wojciech Piejko, Game Director of Cronos: The New Dawn, had to say.

Bloober Team Is Developing Two New Games Simultaneously

MP1st: Bloober has been working on both Silent Hill 2 and Cronos simultaneously. Now that Silent Hill 2 is out, is the studio working on two projects at the same time again?

Piejko: Within the Bloober Team, we have two production teams. Both teams operate independently, however the whole team is sharing the experience of working on previous projects like Medium, Observer, Layers of Fear, Silent Hill 2, Blair Witch etc. And all I can say today is that after the completion of work on Silent Hill 2, the team will conduct the pre-production work on a new project.

In the same interview, Piejko confirmed that the audio team who worked on the Silent Hill 2 remake has now moved to Cronos, which should be good news for horror fans.

MP1st: We’d imagine working on Silent Hill 2 Remake was such a massive learning experience that undoubtedly will have some reflection on the development of Cronos. Though if there’s one thing we could pick that could be “carried over,” I think it would have to be the incredible sound work that was done on the Silent Hill 2 remake. With Cronos being more in the sci-fi genre, the sound team is probably getting all kinds of creative with the different types of noises we’ll hear in the game. Anything you can tell us or tease us about with that?

Piejko: Sound is one of the most important ingredients of horror and we are super privileged to have an amazing Artists and Composer here at Bloober Team to take care of it. I’m really proud of what the audio team accomplished in SH2 Remake and I can confirm that the same team is now working on Cronos and we can’t wait to share more about the sound of Cronos in the future.

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It’s also not known if this pre-production project is related to “Project R,” a title previously confirmed by Bloober in collaboration with Skybound Entertainment that’s targeting a 2025 release. Of course, there is a chance that this project won’t be released in 2025, and with Cronos: The New Dawn scheduled for release sometime next year, it might seem a bit odd for the studio to release two horror games based on new IPs in the same year.

In the same chat, Piejko mentioned that Cronos: The New Dawn’s combat leans toward Resident Evil and Dead Space, as it’ll also feature a game mechanic that’s comparable to Alan Wake 2’s flashlight, and Dead Space’s limb-cutting to spice things up.

Stay tuned to our full interview hitting the site soon.

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