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Former Call of Duty Devs Are Making the First Ever Official Kickboxer Video Game — however Is Jean-Claude Van Damme in It?


Former Call of Duty builders are making the primary ever online game based mostly on the Kickboxer martial arts movie franchise.

Los Angeles-based Force Multiplier Studios is working with Dimitri Logothetis and Rob Hickman, the filmmakers behind the current rebooted Kickboxer trilogy to develop the Kickboxer online game.

Jean-Claude Van Damme starred within the first Kickboxer movie, which launched in 1989 and did so nicely it spawned a variety of sequels. Van Damme did not return for Kickboxer 2, as an alternative making 1991’s Double Impact, however did star within the 2016 reboot Kickboxer: Vengeance alongside Dave Bautista, and its 2018 sequel, Kickboxer: Retaliation. The third installment of the reboot trilogy, Kickboxer: Armageddon, is about to shoot this spring.

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This brand is all we’ve for now on the Kickboxer online game.

As for the online game, it’s mentioned to be in early improvement however, based on Force Multiplier Studios, “will mix the wealthy narrative of Kickboxer with kinetic martial arts motion to ship an intense, high-octane brawler, and have iconic characters and places from the franchise initially starring martial arts icon Jean-Claude Van Damme.”

IGN requested if Jean-Claude Van Damme himself had signed on to star within the online game, however Force Multiplier Studios stored issues imprecise. “We’re all large followers of the Kickboxer films, and we’ve the licenses to many characters and likenesses from the Kickboxer universe that we’re very enthusiastic about,” Brent Friedman, Chief Creative Officer at Force Multiplier Studios, mentioned. “We’ll have rather more to share later within the yr.”

Force Multiplier Studios is a brand new improvement studio co-founded by Jeremy Breslau, Brent Friedman, and Charnjit Bansi, who led narrative and design on the likes of Call of Duty, Borderlands, and Halo. They’ve additionally labored on Tomb Raider and Mortal Kombat.

“Kickboxer is greater than only a movie; it is a cultural phenomenon that has impressed generations of followers and martial artists alike,” mentioned Dimitri Logothetis, author and director of Kickboxer: Armageddon.

“I’m thrilled to collaborate with the unimaginable crew at Force Multiplier Studios. We’re going to create a gaming expertise that pays tribute to the unique movie whereas introducing thrilling new gameplay components.”

Force Multiplier Studios’ first recreation is a fight shooter known as Karnivus, which was launched inside Fortnite, nevertheless it feels like Kickboxer is a step up for the crew.

“Our ardour is innovation, and simply as we’re innovating on Fortnite Creative with our personal environmental fight shooter expertise Karnivus, we are able to’t wait to innovate the combating style with a dynamic brawler that can empower gamers to be the most effective kickboxers on the earth, touring to unique locales and introducing new environmental fight mechanics to ship a martial arts expertise like by no means earlier than,” added Jeremy Breslau, CEO of Force Multiplier Studios.

That’s all we’ve for now — no screenshots or a trailer simply but. Expect extra data later this yr.

Image credit score: Jean-Claude Van Damme YouTube.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.



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