Dennaton Games has announced that Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number will be released later this year.
On the franchise's Twitter account, the developers wrote:
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number will launch in Q3 2014. Act accordingly. #BusinessTalk
— Hotline Miami (@HotlineMiami) January 28, 2014
Dennaton's Dennis Wedin has said the team has taken to heart fan feedback on the orignal game that as a result Wrong Number will feature a hard mode and characters with proper motivations.
“In normal mode, it's pretty much the same [as Hotline Miami].We will add a hard mode to the game, like in the way Super Meat Boy works. We added this because some people said that the first game was too easy. So we wanted to give them something more.
"We have a bunch of new playable characters and they all have their own storyline. We're trying to give them more personality so players can get to know them a bit more. In the first game you only had Jacket, and we made him pretty blank. But for this game, if we made all the characters just blank, the player would feel the same way about all of them. We want them to be different — some you will agree more with, or won't agree with, or maybe won't understand their motivations or agenda.”
Wrong Number was originally planned as DLC for the original game but has since expanded in scope to be a full blown sequel. You can check out our preview of the game here.
