In this first Hollywood project for Starbreeze, it was a learning process for the team involved.

“It’s just far enough away from film, but not all the way to games.” That opened the door to work directly with Reddick with voiceover. “VR is a nice bridge for people like Lance to flex their muscles in a place that’s comfortable,” said Brown. The game was created by Lionsgate and Starbreeze in collaboration with Grab Games, Big Red Button and GameCo.īrown said the development pipeline for this game was similar to a film pipeline. The game is set in the Continental Hotel from the films, offering players a non-stop wave of targets to eliminate. “We’ve been lucky working with Lionsgate to expand on the world and touch on story points from the film, dealing with Lance Reddick’s character, Charon.” Additionally, it crafted a separate, shorter (7-12 minutes) and much more physical location-based game, John Wick Chronicles: Arcade Edition for IMAX VR Experience Centers (the Los Angeles location opens February 14).īrooks Brown, global director of VR at Starbreeze, told listdaily that virtual reality opens up experiences very different than classic console or PC games, where the player is disembodied from the character. “VR changes how you perceive the film world and characters,” Brown said. The developer has created a highly-replayable, 90-minute first-person shooter game, John Wick Chronicles, for the HTC Vive. Lionsgate releases John Wick: Chapter 2 theatrically on February 10, but fans can step into the assassin’s shoes early via a pair of different virtual reality experiences from Starbreeze.

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