Lionsgate is outwardly contemplating growing a AAA recreation based mostly on the John Wick franchise.
The information comes from CEO Jon Feltheimer (through IndieWire) who, throughout an earnings name, revealed that Lionsgate was fascinated by discussing proposals for a AAA John Wick recreation, although he was reluctant to offer any particular particulars, implying that nothing had been determined but.
“I don’t want to get ahead of myself here, but we believe there is a big AAA game to be made out of John Wick,” stated Feltheimer. “We have been fielding proposals. We certainly are interested in moving that forward, but I don’t want to say anything more about that at this time.”
Should Lionsgate go forward with this, it might actually be the second online game to hold the licence. John Wick Hex, a technique title from indie studio Bithell Games, was launched again in 2019.
While John Wick Hex lacks the AAA-shine (and, in fact, the funds) of the sort of recreation Lionsgate is now contemplating, it was properly obtained at launch – incomes a 3 star evaluation from Tom Regan in NME.
Describing Hex as a “scrappy little indie game,” Regan heaped reward on the sport’s fight system, adapting Keanu Reeves’ motion ballet franchise right into a grid-based, strategic fight strategy. The recreation’s story additionally impressed, with our evaluation hailing it as having “sharper writing than the films and a predictably solid performance from Troy Baker as the villain.”
Regan factors out that Hex is a short-lived expertise, nonetheless. With simply seven maps, “this affordably priced title is hardly going to keep you occupied for days at a time.”
A brand new John Wick title would additionally, in fact, mark the third time lately {that a} online game has been blessed with the likeness of Keanu Reeves, who famously starred in CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. And that’s earlier than we get to the Matrix video games of previous, if you wish to return that far.
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