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Stunning New Hellblade Trailer Released

Ninja Theory has released a new Hellblade trailer for its upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive, now called Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.

Announced via the Sony blog, the trailer shows a new character design for Senua. She has long dreadlocks, tied back, high on her head, which is adorned with a beaded headdress. Her face and body are painted with woad and she’s stocky and powerful looking. This is no sexy, warrior princess, just a warrior. But it’s the detail of expression and performance that’s striking.

Dominic Matthews of Ninja Theory, said, “In this scene we are revealing a new look for Senua based on our aim to make her one of the most believable characters ever seen in a video game.”

The team have motioned captured the lead actress to provide a higher level of performance fidelity. Hellblade’s lead character, Senua is suffering from psychosis and hears voices in her head, which will require a broad range of emotion.

It looks pretty darned gorgeous, but check it out for yourself.

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is due to launch on PC and PS4 in 2016.

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Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.