Unusual new Magicka 2 gameplay trailer makes its debut

Hi, everybody! Ever since we announced that Magicka 2 would be coming to PS4, the whole Magicka team has been dying to talk more about the game. It turns out you can only bottle up that enthusiasm for so long before it just bursts right out of you – and when that happens, there’s a 65% chance it will burst forth in song form.

It’s true! We got that statistic from a very reliable person. He’s not even a vampire, so we trust him completely.

Everyone at Paradox and Pieces Interactive have worked really hard at our home offices in Sweden to make Magicka 2 as fun as can be. Pieces is a company that knows their way around Magicka – they’ve been developing content for the series for a while now, and if the folks who tried the new sequel at PAX Prime are any indication, they’ve been doing a swell job! The game works great on the DualShock 4, with the dual-stick run-and-cast gameplay looking as colourful and explosive as ever.

So, today we’re giddy as goblins to not only show you some real Magicka 2 gameplay, but to SING to you about it! Take a look:

Chaos sure is beautiful, right? Just like the original game, Magicka 2 is a game where you and up to three friends control Wizards on a quest through the far away and baffling realm of Midgård, combining eight elements into a series of devastating spells to slay your foes and, sometimes, “accidentally,” slay your friends.

Mash together fire, rock, and arcane elements to fling a flaming death boulder, or water, cold, and shield magic to throw up a spiky ice barrier, or use one of the secret, special Magicks found in-game to cook up something really special for the foes you’ll meet out there.

Right now everyone in the team is hard at work on the adventure campaign, making sure the experience is as much fun and as challenging as one would expect from the Magicka sequel. Tuning gameplay and enemy encounters in one place and writing completely reasonable dialogues for Vlad in another.

The game is coming together nicely and we’re getting closer to the finish line for every day that passes. We can’t wait for it to be released and to let everyone have a go at it.

Today, we’re asking for help from the PlayStation community. We’ve opened a contest for anyone who wants to sing their own version of the karaoke video we just showed you! Ambitious and foolhardy songsmiths can grab an instrumental version of the song from the trailer, along with an .mp4 video file with the lyrics. Sing along, create your own karaoke video, and you can win a sweet prize! Full details can be found on our website.

Magicka 2 will be immolating your enemies and fracturing your friendships on the PS4 in early 2015. Check out how the magic is happening over at magicka2.com!