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EA's Jack the Ripper game detailed
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 7th October 2009
EA hasn't yet confirmed a Jack the Ripper game, but rumours and leaks suggest Visceral Studios is working on one.
The game was originally unveiled to the LA Times, who cited sources close to EA as confirming a game based on the slasher was in the making at Visceral Studios - the same team currently working on Dante's Inferno.
Now, details uncovered by Destructoid suggest that the game will take the character in an entirely
Instead of being the never-caught prostitute slaughterer who's so central to conspiracy theories of the 1800's, Jack will be a demon-hunter operating on the streets of London. Jack will have a variety of exaggerated weaponry at his disposal, as well as a bullet-time ability according to recent supports.
It's worth clarifying that this is all rumour for now, but if it turns out to be fact then you can pencil us in for a pre-emptive shrug and sigh at the new info.
We'll bring you more details as they emerge, but for now you can share your thoughts in the forums.
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Why couldn't they have made it a detective thriller? Trying to catch the ripper as a policeman would be much more interesting...
Wouldn't that be a bit too cliche? Tho it still sounds as good (bad) as what they're doing.
Princess Diana recast as a magical sword weilding herion, stalking land-mind fields fighting off legions of armoured ghouls sent against her by the Queen Mother.
"The People's Princess is kicking ass and chewing bubble gum. Butler, I need some more chewing gum!"
I could see the the final battle, her making a Joan de Arc last stand against hordes of
paparazzidemonsas i was first reading i thought several things, at first i thought, you can't surely be playing jack - that would be sick, we must be some sort of detective... but then there's the fact he was never caught so the game would either be endless or have a made up end.
then i got to the demon part and didn't know whether to laugh or not.
sounds to me like their desperate to make a game about jack the ripper, as the name still draws attention and can sell stuff on its own (plus of course there's been a recent film), and this is the only way they can think of to stop it being distasteful due to realism and they THINK that this is an entertaining twist on things.
maybe it's only brits who find this wrong - will be interesting to know from people who give views where you're also from... (country is fine don't need to be more specific)
If they are going to make a game based on Jack the Ripper they should make it honest. As Jack you would have to gain the trust of the hookers, murder them and then escape. I doubt that game will ever be made, and maybe it shouldn't be, but half assed attempts to use Jack to sell games is just as bad.
Yours in Jack the Ripper was a Time Traveler Plasma,
Star*Dagger
Or will this be something like Jack's all high on opium and sees daemons instead of hookers and exagerated weaponry instead of a dagger?
Wow. Uber cutting edge. ....not.
And a grimy big gun toting bullet timing bad ass is not?
They are quite literally demonising the victims of a sexual predator, while turning their killer, one of the most notorious serial sadistic murderers in history, into the hero. This is so beyond good taste that I can foresee a very public media roasting in EAs future.
Will there be a sequel featuring the dynamic demon killing duo of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley killing Satan's little spawn? I can the comedic opportunities!