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Not a character or a skin, just Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage himself.
Dead by Daylight’s next DLC expansion will feature its most unusual crossover character yet: Nicolas Cage. Cage will apparently join the asymmetrical multiplayer horror game as himself, and not one of the many iconic characters in his filmography - though we can only imagine the endless potential for his cosmetics.
Dead by Daylight’s official announcement calls this, “the performance of a lifetime.” Cage himself looks much like his real-life counterpart, beard and all, while wearing a dangling yellow necklace. His monologue over the announcement trailer begins with, “There is nothing more powerful than imagination,” and ends with him affirming that it can, “shape everything you know.”
Dead by Daylight’s roster of playable characters is split in two categories: Killers and Survivors. Killers are psychopathic monsters who are tasked with hunting down a group of survivors and keeping them from escaping a map, either by incapacitating them or killing them. Survivors work together in groups to complete various objectives in the map so they can escape unharmed, while evading the deadly Killers.
Nicolas Cage is set to be a Survivor, according to a 2023 roadmap for the game, which means he won’t be doing any killing. Judging by his monologue about imagination, we’d guess that his abilities revolve around altering his surroundings by reshaping reality or creating illusions. Eurogamer provided an official blurb for the DLC character:
After countless awards and over one hundred movies shot across the globe, Nicolas Cage had seen it all and done it all – or so he thought. While on set filming the role of a lifetime, his performance summoned The Entity, a malevolent being of incomprehensible power. The actor soon found himself cast in otherworldly Fog, forced to Survive a host of terrifying Killers deadlier than even the most scathing film critic.
Dead by Daylight is no stranger to crossovers. The multiplayer game has added DLC from franchises like Attack on Titan, Hellraiser, Silent Hill, Evil Dead, Resident Evil and more. A real-life actor, though? That’s new.
