Rock, Paper, Shotgun

“All FPSes are Rambo, no FPSes are Rambo. The difference is in the dose” – Paracelsus.

While Reef Entertainment saw fit to release a few screenshots of their Rambo game (one of which you can see above) it’s telling that the trailer for the game, which you can see below (as is traditional) features nothing but scenes from the Rambo movies. It’s fitting, I suppose, at a time when videogames are shooting live-action trailers to promote their rendered action happenings, the movie licence need not bother to show its game at all, because it has the movie.

Rambo – just so you know – will be a first person shooter comprising of a “journey” through the first three movies. Why not Rambo 4?
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Reef Entertainment have announced, via trade site MCV, that they are working on a new Rambo franchise. Reef Entertainment CEO Peter Rezon explained: “I am a big fan of Sylvester Stallone movies, and when we had the opportunity to secure the video game rights from StudioCanal for the Rambo franchise, we had to grab it with both hands.”

No details for what kind of game it will, yet, but Rezon says it’s “a triple-A title” and also claims that “now was a good time to do something special with this licence.” I reckon that might include dudes getting shot. Not that I think the game is definitely going to be a manshoot. Perhaps it’s more psychological: a traumatised Vietnam veteran management game, or something. Can you go into that diner without flipping out with a knife? No, no.