Spaghetti-Western Stealth Game ‘El Hijo’ Gets New Trailer

By Alex Kane

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – “El Hijo” is a Western-inspired stealth game about a boy trying to save his mother. No release date has been confirmed yet.

“The game is set in a mythical place that very much resembles the American West as we know it from Sergio Leone’s westerns, borrowing some of the most popular characteristics such as gangs of outlaws, shady saloons, and desert landscapes, all served up with a good helping of sarcasm and irony,” the game’s website says. “The journey begins when a farmer and her son, El Hijo, are attacked by bandits who raze their farm to the ground. The mother, confronted with a difficult choice, decides to leave El Hijo with a group of old monks at a secluded monastery in order to protect him. However, El Hijo decides that the monastic life is not for him, and he decides to escape.”

The annual
Electronic Entertainment Expo
, better known as E3, takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 11 to 13. As is tradition, however, things kicked off early on Saturday at 12 p.m. ET with Electronic Arts’ EA Play event, which was held at the Hollywood Palladium on June 8 and 9.

Microsoft had its big Xbox 2019 Briefing on Sunday, June 9, at 4 p.m. ET. Publishers Bethesda and Devolver Digital also hosted press conferences that same evening at 8:30 and 10 p.m. ET, respectively.

E3 2019 is coming to Los Angeles on June 11 through 13, and we’ll cover all the highlights of the event
here at

Variety

as well.