Of all of the builders to go up a John Wick game, Mike Bithell of Thomas Was Alone, Subsurface Circular and Volume shouldn’t be one I may have predicted. John Wick Hex additionally seems like a little bit of an oddball, genre-wise. It’s a pseudo-turn-based techniques game, with gamers planning Keanu Reeves’s each transfer with a purpose to dodge, parry and shoot his method via every gunfight with most fashion, and minimal injury taken or ammo wasted. There’s no launch date but, however you may get a primary peek on the game within the trailer under, plus some screenshots exhibiting off its interface.
John Wick Hex will inform a brand new story (hopefully one the place no canines get shot) for Keanu’s super-killguy, indirectly linked to the movies. While particulars on the game’s specifics are bordering on nonexistent, the trailer and screenshots do give us some attention-grabbing particulars. The game’s fight shouldn’t be purely turn-based, however performs out over small chunks of extremely deliberate time. Every motion has prices hooked up, each when it comes to time taken and ‘focus’ used. It jogs my memory equally of Frozen Synapse on a smaller scale, or All Walls Must Fall with much less bullet hell. Familiar, however totally different.
While the core of the game can be a narrative mode, excessive scores on every mission there’ll unlock new weapons, outfits and areas to be used in different modes. Interestingly, evidently weapon reloading occurs semi-realistically – should you’ve nonetheless received 13 of fifteen photographs left in {a magazine}, then reloading might be doubtlessly wasteful. There’s no point out of procedural era, though that doesn’t rule it out both. In a small-scale techniques game like this, it will be uncommon to have a wholly scripted game, however this one does appear to be marching to the beat of its personal drum.
This is the primary official John Wick game, but it surely’s not the murderer’s first look in a game. Officially, he’s been part of the Payday 2 playable cast for ages, and you’ll even earn a few of his murderer funny-money to improve your hideout with. Unofficially, he’s been lurking around in Fortnite for some time, too. Honestly, I’m stunned he hasn’t already starred in a trilogy of Max Payne-inspired bullet time shooters but, however no person could make sense of Hollywood.
We don’t know when John Wick Hex can be launching, however we do know that it’ll be an Epic Games Store unique at launch. There’s no retailer web page but, however the game’s official page is here. It’ll be printed by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
