Home Cult 80s martial arts movie Kickboxer is to get a not-very-topical videogame based on it

Cult 80s martial arts movie Kickboxer is to get a not-very-topical videogame based on it

Some old film classic deserve a great game. It is only a few weeks since we got an Indiana Jones game, a movie I remember watching on Christmas Day as a kid with the family, back in the days when people spoke to each other.

I did feel a bit like I was hallucinating when the press release dropped with the news that a Kickboxer videogame was in production though. My thought process was that, it must be a game about kickboxing, not the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme movie of the same name.

Spoiler alert. It is about the movie, and it’s coming from a new studio with some heavy-hitting names in its line-up.

Force Multiplier Studios is a new development studio co-founded by Jeremy Breslau, Brent Friedman and Charnjit Bansi, video game industry veterans who led narrative and design on multiple AAA franchises, including Call of Duty, Borderlands and Halo. They have also worked extensively in film adaptations from the Tomb Raider and Mortal Kombat universes. The studio has partnered with Dimitri Logothetis and Rob Hickman, the filmmakers behind Kickboxer: Vengeance, Kickboxer: Retaliation and the upcoming Kickboxer: Armageddon. I will admit I had no clue it was an ongoing franchise.

The Kickboxer game has no mention of JCVD so we assume he won’t be lending his face and muscles (from Brussels – still the greatest nickname of all time) to the project but that still doesn’t stop the studio being keen.

“We couldn’t be more excited to be partnering with Dimitri and Rob to bring Kickboxer into the gaming world,” said Jeremy Breslau, CEO of Force Multiplier Studios. “Our passion is innovation, and just as we’re innovating on Fortnite Creative with our own environmental combat shooter experience Karnivus: Rooftop Rumble, we can’t wait to innovate the fighting genre with incredibly visceral combat and an emphasis on the environment and what you can do in it. We are crafting a dynamic brawler that will empower players to be the best kickboxers in the world, traveling to exotic locales and introducing new environmental combat mechanics to deliver a martial arts experience like never before.”

More information on the Kickboxer video game will be revealed later this year.

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Paul McNally has been around consoles and computers since his parents bought him a Mattel Intellivision in 1980. He has been a prominent games journalist since the 1990s, spending over a decade as editor of popular print-based video games and computer magazines, including a market-leading PlayStation title published by IDG Media. Having spent time as Head of Communications at a professional sports club and working for high-profile charities such as the National Literacy Trust, he returned as Managing Editor in charge of large US-based technology websites in 2020. Paul has written high-end gaming content for GamePro, Official Australian PlayStation Magazine,…

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