Summary
In the world of action movies, few franchises seem to be begging for a video game adaptation more than theJohn Wickflicks. At times, the films look like the people doing the fighting are, in fact, video game characters. The kicks, the spins, the punches, and the shooting. All the over-the-top action just seems like it would fit right at home as aCall of Duty-style adaptation in the 1990s. These days, those sorts of games are falling out of favor mainly because the market is so saturated. But the franchise is still begging for some adaptation.
Of course, at least one development team has already tried aJohn Wickvideo game adaptation.John Wick Hexdidn’t doall that well, critically or commercially. However, the developers had the right idea. It allowed people to run into situations and blast away. Kick and punch when the mood struck them. But where the game didn’t do the movie justice is by almost making the player overthink. They had to decide how to move, when, and how to avoid their enemy’s bullets. There was a little too much strategy involved, and the game didn’t make all of that strategy fun enough. But if a developer out there wanted to give it another go and adapt the movies into a side-scrolling, shoot-em-up beat-em-up, then that game could do quite well. As long as they added enough new features to the mix.
Arcade Action Seems Best For John Wick Game
PuttingJohn Wickin a pixelated, 2D environment does a couple of things at once. The first is that it take the gore of the movies and makes it more manageable for those who might not love all the blood and guts and killing making those movies popular for a certain segment of the population. However, putting in an environment that isn’t remotely realistic takes some of the gore and grossness and seriousness of the killing sprees that the Keanu Reeves character and other members of that world constantly go on in the four films that have hit theaters as well as the spinoffs and upcoming films.
The series is one that doesn’t seem to have an end.
The series is one that doesn’t seem to have an end. That allows forall sorts of levelsand ways for this game being pulled off. There will be plenty of settings that can be put into the side-scrolling game.And because the graphics are pixelated and 2D, there’s more of a license to go over the top without it being as deadly serious as some of the movies have been.
Several beat-em-up games have been released over the years, rejuvenating the video game genre that was so popular in the arcade game era. The fact that all of these games have been released over the years means that there are plenty of ideas out there for how to incorporateelements from theJohn Wickmovie franchise.
Players could be able to use hand to hand type weapons to move through the levels and fight through waves of bad guys. There could also be all kinds of different guns to blast villains that are either dropped by the regular villains or picked up in other packages as theplayers progress through the levels.
It feels like there is a plethora of different ways in which aJohn Wickside-scrolling beat-em-up could work that would pull people into the video game world right after the watch one of the movies or spinoffs that have been born since those terrible mobsters first killed John’s puppy and realized they had cross the wrong man.
This Franchise Deserves Another Try
There are plenty of different charactersin theJohn Wickuniversethat would all make very interesting ports into a video game world. While these kinds of movies tend to make developers think everything needs to be ultra-realistic putting the game into a format that reminds people ofThe Simpsonsarcade game can actually be therapeutic.
There’s also the fact that these kinds of games are able to be played in small chunks. Games like the Scott Pilgrim titles are able to be taken in small bites whenever someone gets the urge. Play through the level and switch the game off, maybe even turn it off andgo watch anotherJohn Wickmovie.
There have been reports that there is abig-budget John Wick gamebeing made, but that sounds exactly like the kind of game a side-scrolling beat-em-up wouldn’t be. There might be money getting poured into something where players step into the role of Wick, but that might actually be the kind of game that is really going to catch on. It in fact, sounds like kind of video game adaptation that is a little too serious and takes itself too seriously. There are certainly some people who will decide that’s what they’re looking for.
For everyone else, the chance to just go into a level and bash a bunch of enemies in some good clean, cartoonish fun might be far more entertaining. The games that try to hard to emulate the movies they’re based on don’t tend to do all that well. Going in a different direction for aJohn Wickgame could be much more successful.
