A little over a month ago Ninja Theory surprised with the announcement of Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 at the gala of The Game Awards, the sequel to its successful 2017 game exclusively for Sbox Series X and PC, but the British team seems to has not been losing in recent years after the acquisition by Microsoft, Through his Twitter account he has revealed his next game, Project: Mara. If it were not enough with two games in development, with Bleeding Edge, they enter a new terror proposal.
“Project: MARA is an experimental title in development that explores new ways of telling stories,” says Ninja Theory through its social networks alongside the first teaser of this project that seems to bet again on psychological terror and a compelling narrative.
Announcing Project: MARA
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«Project: Mara will be a representation of mental terror based on the real world», comment Tameen Antoniades, CEO of Ninja Theory «Based on stories of real experiences and in-depth research, our goal is to recreate the horrors of the mind in the most accurate and realistic way possible. Project: Mara will be an experimental title and a sample of what could become a new medium for storytelling. »
Project: Mara is the first creation of the so-called Insight Project, «a game development, technological and scientific program that will lead to autonomous, individualized and absorbing gaming experiences within which people can become experts in recognizing, responding and, Ultimately, control your own fear, anxiety and other negative subjective. experience. The work will be based on rigorous scientific principles to ensure its effectiveness and validity, and will adhere to strict standards of ethics and data management. ”It was presented by Microsoft and Ninja Theory late last year
Judging by this small advance, the creators of Hellblade again bet on a female protagonist with actress Melina Jurgens as the main focus of her proposalIt is hoped that he will use the same advanced techniques of facial and movement capture to create a character as real and credible as Senua's. At the moment there are no more details about it, it is a project in its early planning stages