H E L L L E T L O O S E
Learn by dying like a dog for no good reason
Developer Black Matter
Publisher Team17
Format PC, PS5, Xbox Series
Origin Australia
Release 2021
Conventional WWII shooters have the player inhabit Tom Hanks’ Captain Miller – the Saving Private Ryan protagonist who, through a combination of gumption and dumb luck, is witness to meaningless death but never its subject (well, not until the very end, at least). Black Matter CEO Max Rea likes to say that Hell Let Loose newbies are the men standing behind Hanks on the D-Day landing craft – the ones who take a bullet the moment the ramp hits the beach.
“Normally, I think people’s first or second game is an extremely overwhelming and bewildering experience that’s largely just terrifying,” he says. “Things are exploding incredibly loudly around you, you wonder how you’re alive still, and then you die. You never see the person who kills you.”