We’re all hungry for Striking Distance Studios’ The Callisto Protocol. The studio knows it, and are keeping the anticipation building with the release of part one of their docuseries on The Callisto Protocol entitled “Mastering Horror”.
The first of a three-part series, Episode 1 sees director Glen Schofield, along with members of the development team and personalities from the horror genre (such as The Walking Dead‘s Robert Kirkman) go behind the scenes of The Callisto Protocol and discuss their shared love of horror.
Entitled “Brutality”, this first episode shows plenty of it in The Callisto Protocol. If you’ve been keeping up with the various previews (including our own by Thomas), you know that the game is going to be a bloody affair.
In fact, it’s so bloody, that according to the game’s Japanese Twitter account, the game’s release in Japan has been cancelled due to being refused classification by the country’s CERO rating system. In order for the game to have received a rating, Striking Distance would have had to censor the violence and gore. Apparently, the developers weren’t able to compromise, and as such, The Callisto Protocol won’t see a release in Japan.
One could see this as a gimmick that harkens back to EA’s infamous Dead Space 2 marketing campaign where they were showing moms footage of the gory goodness. Of course, it only helped Dead Space 2‘s popularity. Will a similar tactic work for its spiritual successor in The Callisto Protocol?
The Callisto Protocol arrives December 2nd for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam.