It seems like a slot on the soundtrack to the sequel would be a pretty smart move for the up-and-coming musician. As a game that shifted a good 300,000 copies on Steam, the original provided fairly major exposure for a lot of the artists included. The soundtrack, a curated list of some exceptional electro artists, plays a huge part in the trance-like state you find yourself in as you hammer R to restart after an untimely death. Music is an integral part of the Hotline Miami experience. 'I made a game about spitting on children. Like, for this character I have to have this weapon, or for this character it’s better to use guns, you know?” You have to adapt to that character’s ability. In the first game people would just pick the Tony mask and play the whole game, so in this one we’re forcing you to adapt a bit more. There’s going to be a level for just the fans, just the detective, just the cobra guy, and you’ll have to play as all of them. “In this game you’re going to have to play as a load of different characters. The story is jumping between different times and settings, so you’ll have to try and connect them.”

“It worked for ‘Jacket’, but for ‘Biker’ we added dialogue to make him different, so we’re working on more stuff like that. “Since there’s 13 characters, we had to give them some kind of personality otherwise they’d all be bland,” Wedin says. “There’s still a big part of the game that’s really vague, but part of it that is more set in stone. Söderström is quick to clarify that Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number doesn’t deviate from the original game’s tone. We always felt like we could make a second game by expanding on this stuff. “When we made the first game we talked about all these back stories to the characters-fleshing out the universe-more for us than the players. “The biggest inspiration for the second game is actually the first game,” Wedin says.

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