Ausbruch: Contagious Memories ist jetzt für Xbox Series X verfügbar|S und Xbox One

Hey Survivors!

Get ready to relive ‘90s retro survival horror with Outbreak Contagious Memories], now available on Xbox Series X.|S und Xbox One via Smart Delivery. Designed to be a spiritual successor to ‘90s gaming landmarks like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, und Alone in the Dark, you’re trapped in a city ravaged by the undead – can you make it out alive? Join Lydia in her desperate struggle to escape, either alone or with a friend in co-op. Continue reading for behind-the-scenes reveals and a lot more!

Spiritual Successor

Die Ausbruch series is all about reliving terrifying moments from the history of survival horror, und Ausbruch: Contagious Memories drags you back to one of the most important eras. The game is designed to play like a narrative-focused tough-as-nails adventure straight from the ‘90s, including optional fixed camera views, strict inventory and resource management, shared item caches, limited consumable items to save, und vieles mehr. You can even optionally choose to play with old-school tank controls!

Aber, for those out there who may prefer a more modern interpretation of the greats, you can also choose between over-the-shoulder or first-person-shooter views with precision aiming and modern movement! This is also the first title in the Ausbruch series to have full voice acting across the entire game, and it’s absolutely as cheesy as you’d expect!

Retro Technical Innovation

Imagine a late ‘90s 3D title married with the next-gen technology of 2022, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of where our nightmare is headed. Real-time reflections and shadows, dynamic gore that sticks to the environment, and much more meet high framerates and quick load times. The environments will capture you with their dark and moody corridors, alongside a vicious thunderstorm raging all around. It’s just you and your flashlight hoping to find respite in a world burning to the ground. Your enemies will be using every advantage they can find to kill you, leaping from the shadows and surprising you just when you feel the safest.

Ausbruch: Contagious Memories is the most technically advanced title in the series, and makes full use of Xbox Series X.|S to power all of these great effects while still supporting great framerates, even in optional two-player co-op splitscreen! But for those of you still waiting to upgrade, Du wirst das finden Xbox One und Xbox One X versions of the title are tailored towards those consoles, still featuring fast load times, snappy framerates, and more bells and whistles than you’d think!

Bonus Modes, Unlockables, and More!

This undead epidemic is brimming with everything you’d expect in ‘90s survival horror. Experience the story mode, complete with cheesy voice acting and over-the-top-gore, as you work with fellow survivors to escape a city collapsing around you. Once you’ve survived that nightmare, jump into the unlockable bonus mode, Operation: Rabid Wolf, a hardcore arcade experience inspired by classic Resident Evil bonus modes where you’ll blast your way through hordes of the undead across a wide cast of characters, each with their own loadouts, as you fight to rescue survivors strewn around the city. Schließlich, you’ll spend points you earn to unlock gameplay modifiers like damage resistance, unlimited ammo, explosive ammo, and other fun modes that need to be seen to believe.

All of the content in the game is playable either in solo or in two-player splitscreen co-op. Im Koop, you and your partner are on equal footing – with your own inventories, weapons and limited amount of health. You’ll need to work together to outsmart the hordes, solve puzzles, share resources, und überleben. If either of you dies, Das Spiel ist vorbei, and you’ll be thrown back to your last save point, or even worse, the beginning of the game!

Passion Project

The entire Ausbruch series is created by a solo indie developer dedicated to helping fellow fans of the genre travel back in time to the ‘90s. The series now has seven unique entries, starting from a 2D overhead adventure in the original Ausbruch,to over-the-shoulder action in Ausbruch: Epidemic], and even semi-procedurally generated rogue-like adventures in Ausbruch: Endless Nightmares. Experience the series at a great price with the Outbreak Palladium Collection und Outbreak-Gold-Sammlung, all of which include Ausbruch: Contagious Memories!

We’ll Meet Again

Thank you for reading and supporting the revival of classic survival horror. Dead Drop Studios has plenty more stories to share in the Ausbruch Universum, as well as some fun surprises ahead that you may not expect. Stay tuned as we battle further into 2022 for more news. Und, don’t forget to pick up Ausbruch: Contagious Memories, now available!