{"id":249715,"date":"2025-10-05T09:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/?p=155234"},"modified":"2025-10-05T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:03:36","slug":"serial-cleaners-a-look-back-at-90s-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/serial-cleaners-a-look-back-at-90s-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial Cleaners: A Look Back at \u201890s New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in 2017, we released Serial Cleaner<\/em>. In this story-driven, fast-paced stealth\/action game set in 1970s America, you play as a Bob C. Leaner, a professional crime scene cleaner working for the mob. In 2021, we are back with an ambitious sequel set in the \u201890s New York, inspired by iconic movies of that era!<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not how I remember it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

New Year\u2019s Eve, 1999. Bob and his fellow cleaners meet up in the back of a funeral home which serves as a front for their bloody business, to celebrate the passing decade and reminisce about the good old times. In the beginning, their get-together serves as a nostalgic trip to the early \u201890s, back to when they first met and took their first outlandish assignments. As the recollections continue, odd inaccuracies keep piling up, exposing long-withheld truths they\u2019ve been hiding from each other.<\/p>\n

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Move without sound. Clean without emotion. Disappear without trace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Serial Cleaners<\/em>, we greatly expand on the original game\u2019s ideas to free the player from its puzzle-like constraints. Whether you\u2019d like to sneak or sprint through the level, drag the corpse around, or saw it to pieces, we\u2019ve got you covered! With a wide range of contextual interactions and more involved law enforcement, the game gets way more open-ended. And while the overall complexity increases, the heart of our original game — wiping the scene clear of corpses, blood, and evidence — is still there and feels better than ever.<\/p>\n

Four distinct cleaners mean four different perspectives and playstyles. We\u2019ve got Psycho\u2019s brute force, Lati\u2019s agility and awareness, Vip3r\u2019s cutting-edge tech skills, all cradled by Bob\u2019s good old-fashioned tricks of the trade. Each mission ties to one of the cleaners and unfolds a piece of their turbulent story over the decade.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want my MTV\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Serial Cleaner<\/em> was set in a timeframe rarely explored in games: the 1970s. We were always proud of the art, the sound, and the atmosphere, which were conveying the spirit of the decade. In the sequel, our style evolved. We moved into 3D in pursuit of a look that would fit our more mature tone of storytelling. We utilize the eccentric style of the first game and infuse it with the atmosphere of \u201890s cinema, from Tarantino\u2019s classics through cult crime thrillers to B-movie action favorites, remixing those familiar scenes into its own unique spin on a decade full of brightly colored optimism… and the grime underneath it all.<\/p>\n

Music-wise, we\u2019ve got this crude \u201890s punk nonconformity, the sound of many genres that defined the end of the last century. East Coast hip hop to industrial metal and a sea of electronic music, from Beastie Boys, and Wu-Tang Clan, through Orbital, Prodigy, finishing with NIN and Ministry. It\u2019s our way of developing a fresh aesthetic and realizing a total vision of the \u201890s.<\/p>\n

Serial Cleaners in 5Pointz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our latest video introduces the very much vertical 5Pointz map, an iconic area, a pinnacle of New York City\u2019s street art.<\/p>\n

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