'I Hope It Could Happen' — Predator: Badlands Director Dan Trachtenberg 'Desperate' for an Uncharted or Assassin's Creed-Style Predator Video Game | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025

With the Predator franchise precise overmuch backmost successful vogue, fans are wondering if determination are immoderate caller Predator video crippled plans. Predator: Hunting Grounds (which saw Arnold Schwarzenegger reprise his relation arsenic Dutch) launched implicit 5 years agone now, and determination are nary caller Predator video games announced arsenic being successful the works astatine the clip of this article's publication.

But with the upcoming movie Predator: Badlands acceptable for merchandise adjacent month, the question of a caller Predator video crippled is much pressing than ever. It turns retired manager Dan Trachtenberg, who besides doubles arsenic a benignant of Predator showrunner for the franchise, wants a caller Predator video crippled conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic fans do.

As portion of IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025, Trachtenberg told america helium would emotion to spot an Uncharted oregon Assassin’s Creed-style Predator video crippled acceptable successful an unfastened world, and expressed his anticipation it mightiness 1 time happen.

“I americium hopeless for determination to beryllium a third-person enactment adventure, Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, that benignant of unfastened satellite thing,” helium said. “Concrete Jungle was thing that I missed unfortunately. And that was a agelong clip ago. And there's conscionable truthful overmuch amusive to beryllium had crippled wise, I think, with Predator. I anticipation it could happen.”

Concrete Jungle is simply a 2005 Predator video crippled developed by the present defunct Eurocom for PlayStation 2 and the archetypal Xbox. You play arsenic a disgraced Predator who indispensable regain his grant by sidesplitting the humans who person stolen his technology. It didn’t reappraisal well.

Trachtenberg, by the way, is simply a large gamer. He’s talked astir however Shadow of the Colossus inspired Predator: Badlands successful the past, and successful the aforesaid interrogation with IGN revealed however World of Warcraft inspired the laser sword Dek uses successful the film.

But, it turns out, his gaming chops spell backmost adjacent further. He told america that, arsenic a child, helium designed a level for a Predator video crippled and sent it into GamePro mag arsenic portion of a competition. Unfortunately, helium didn’t marque the cut.

“I utilized to emotion GamePro and determination was a contention successful GamePro to plan a level and past you would marque it successful the magazine,” helium said. “And I submitted, I designed a Predator video crippled level that I'm definite I was conscionable copying Contra. And I did not marque it into the magazine.”

At slightest Trachtenberg got to recognize his Predator ambitions successful film! Predator: Badlands hits theaters November 7, 2025. While you hold for the movie to travel out, cheque retired everything announced during IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025.

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