More Than A Year Since Its Announcement, Turtle Rock Studios Shares First Look At Back 4 Blood

Dating back to March of last year already, developer Turtle Rock Studios announces that it would be returning to the phenomenon that is the Left 4 Dead series. Well, not entirely: due to legal obstacles withholding the use of the property, the team is working on a successor with a similarly-structured title. Announcing Back 4 Blood, the game was shared to be a new entry that fans have been crying to the skies for about a decade now and the studio has been listening.

In collaboration with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to publish the next of what hopefully becomes a new era of zombie-killing endeavors from Turtle Rock Studios, the firm did not disclose when exactly the game will be available. Even last year with the industry well aware of how close the next-generation of consoles are – there was no word if it would even make it to the current systems or not.

But alike all announcements, we let those simmer and essentially forget it as the team works quietly on the project. Now more than a year after said announcement, Turtle Rock Studios returns with a new post sharing the first image of what fans can expect from the new title. In celebration of Independence Day this weekend in the United States, the studio reveals what looks to be a fortified hill with ‘Hope’ painted on the front of the building at the peak.

The team recognizing the difficulties of the ongoing pandemic inflicted by the novel coronavirus alongside what continues to unravel national division in the United States fueled by racial injustice; the developer shared something suiting and even reassuring that good is to come from all the nonsense that is still developing.

Back to the image, it is only concept art illustrating the world for Back 4 Blood, and might not reflect the full game. However, this being what looks to be the first of more unwrapped posts later on is exciting to say the least. Left 4 Dead has been victim of open-ended locations of the sort like the ‘Hard Rain’ campaign in Left 4 Dead 2 for instance.

Furthermore on the possibilities of more reveals – the team stated during last year’s E3 that despite the short time since the conception of Back 4 Blood being revealed, there would not be anything shared at the aforementioned event. But now a full year later and some, we could be closer to perhaps a trailer in the coming months or possibly weeks. Although that is just conjecture for now, take that with little truth until then.

What do you hope to see from Turtle Rock Studios regarding Back 4 Blood?