Pull down your hockey mask and grab the nearest cleaver: Friday the 13th is coming to the PlayStation 4 in Fall 2016. But there's a catch: you'll need to help fund it on Kickstarter. In what is becoming a frightening precedent, Gun Media, IllFonic, and Crystal Lake Entertainment have all teamed up to help create an asymmetrical online multiplayer game starring the slasher genre's greatest star: Jason Voorhees.
In truth, this is just cancelled PC game Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp with a different skin. Matches will play out similarly to Evolve, where one person will assume the role of the iconic serial killer, while seven others fight for their lives as clichéd camp counsellors. There are plans for a first-person single player mode, which will see you play out iconic scenarios from the movie series. There'll also be a progression system to keep you hooked to the online component, as well as an 80s movie trailer feature which will highlight the best moments at the end of each match in grindhouse style.
It definitely sounds like an interesting idea, and the developer has suggested that it's adopting a crowd funding model to stay true to the spirit of the original movies. It also mentions that without publishers pulling the strings, it'll be able to make the game as grisly as it likes, without needing to bow down to a T rating. The consortium's currently asking for $700,000, with rewards ranging from a copy of the game for $30 all the way through to an invitation to its launch party for $7,500.
We must admit that we do like the concept, and the trailer captures the spirit of the movies well, but we're not so keen on big brands like this going straight to Kickstarter. Still, the slasher fan in this author feels compelled to back it anyway. Much like a hapless camper being pursued by a mass murderer, your humble host is torn.
[source kickstarter.com]
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Could be good; could be terrible. Hmm.
"Press X to Jason Vorhees".
Nice.
Intregued enough to keep an eye on it but not enough to donate yet.
I'll be donating for sure, but I'm not sure how much yet. It's already raised over $60,000, and I'm sure it'll end up well over a million before all is said and done. I'm hoping they use that for a nice single player experience. The multiplayer sounds fun, but I have to have a little single player included as well. All in all, I'm really excited about the announcement and will be following closely over the next year.
I've always wanted a fighting game featuring classic horror characters such as Jason, Pinhead, Chucky and Freddy Kruger. Though I can imagine the licencing minefield it would cause.
These were the movies of my teen years, and I thoroughly enjoyed them all. Until Se7en. There was no turning back for me after that. So now this scares me. Not this, it looks campy, I like camp. Anybody ever see "Squirm"? But what happens when FP Saw comes out, or 7? I don't want to torture people and cut off the heads of pregnant women. I don't want anybody to torture people and cut off the heads of pregnant woman. Or perform all the hentai I watched as a teen.
Rape torture porn and VR equals too much for me. Watching it in a movie is one thing, hoping the bad guy gets his comeuppance at the end, but becoming a torturous monster for kicks in all it's photorealistic depravity? I'm all for porn, even VR porn, and holodeck porn, but it's never going to stop there for a lot of people. I guess it's better those people do it in VR than real life, but everybody chipping in to make that game on kickstarter is just too much. Man I'm so glad I never had daughters.
And yes, I know, there wasn't any rape in these old flicks, just the non-virgins died and it was all very consensual, but "slasher-flicks-for-fun" has gone so far into showing every last dismembered cell and blood drop these days from when so much used to be off camera, or so so fake like Halloween costume knives thru the head, I'm just not sure they can make it campy and still have people be interested w/o crossing over into Saw territory. Jason vs Freddy vs Michael vs Pinhead vs Pumpkinhead I'm there, teens at the lake not so much.
@rjejr ".....all the demon rape I watched in hentai as a teen."
Wow, thanks for sharing.
@THEundying27 I guess in retrospect that was kind of redundant of me huh? Going to go edit it now.
@get2sammyb I remember that there was to be a Child's Play Chucky game for the PS3, and then...nothing...I still have the advertisement paper that came in a game and a bluRay movie...whatever happened to that? Anyways, I'd definitely support this, if I knew that it would be made. If I gave $30 to the publisher, does that guarantee me a copy of the game, even if the game doesn't get the full amount of money, or do I just lose that money???
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