A couple months ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger let it slip that he had recorded "some voice-over" for a PREDATOR video game – and since he said that soon before the release of PREDATOR: HUNTING GROUNDS, we've been assuming that was the game he was talking about. Now Entertainment Weekly confirms it – thirty-three years after Schwarzenegger's character Dutch battled the Predator, Schwarzenegger and Dutch are returning to the franchise in PREDATOR: HUNTING GROUNDS.
In this game,
one group of players control members of an elite Fireteam: who pack state-of-the-art conventional firepower, from shotguns and SMGs to sniper rifles and more. One player controls the Predator: a stealthy, acrobatic killing machine bristling with exotic alien technology such as the infamous Plasmacaster.
As the Fireteam attempt to carry out paramilitary missions – annihilating bad guys and recovering important items – the Predator will be closing in, using its advanced vision mode to track and ambush its prey.
As of May 26th, players will be able to purchase a DLC that adds Dutch into HUNTING GROUNDS as a playable character. The voice-over Schwarzenegger recorded "will help shed light on what the Dutch has been up to" since 1987.
Jared Gerritzen, the Chief Creative Officer at IllFonic, wrote the Dutch story that plays out through the voice-over. Gerritzen says,
The premise of it is [Dutch] recorded these tapes since '87 after the first movie. Throughout these tapes, there are those arrows [pointing to] what he’s doing, kind of like safeguards if he gets killed or captured. These tapes are gonna be used to essentially keep his story going."
Schwarzenegger isn't the only Predator film cast member who has recorded lines for HUNTING GROUNDS; Jake Busey is also in there as his character from THE PREDATOR.
I was already very interested in trying out PREDATOR: HUNTING GROUNDS, and the addition of Schwarzenegger / Dutch gets me even closer to buying in.