It's taken far too long for the video game industry to deliver a game that lets horror fans control the movements and murdering abilities of some of the genre's most infamous killers in a quality, cinematic style without committing a non-pixel based felony.
We bet you can't tell if this is a screenshot of the Sawyer house's infamous trophy hallway from themovie or a rendered scene from the new multiplayer game based on the infamous 1974 film directed by Toby Hooper.
It's taken far too long for the video game industry to deliver a game that lets horror fans control the movements and murdering abilities of some of the genre's most infamous killers in a quality, cinematic style. Gun Media finally delivered that to gamers with the 2017 asymmetrical multiplayer gamebased on the slasher film series starring the hockey mask-wearing, machete wielding Jason Voorhees. The game let players run around a series of maps of the storied Camp Crystal Lake, the hunting grounds of Jason Voorhees through thefilm series, as a camp counselor trying to find a way to escape Jason's wrath or to play as the infamous Jason, who tries to bump off as many counselors as possible with a variety of sharp, pointy objects and creatively violent finishing moves. Gun Media, now known as Gun Interactive, is back with another game with the same formula but a much different and much more violent setting, and that's because everything, even violent slasher films, are bigger in Texas. The Lexington, Kentucky, game studio along with Sumo Nottingham in England are making an asymmetric multiplayer slasher hunter based on the originalfilm released in 1974 and directed by Toby Hooper. Gun Interactive announced its new game back in December with a frightening trailer that echoes the calm, unnerving chaos of Hooper's innovative horror film. Earlier this week, Gun Interactive released a second, much shorter trailer featuring some of the first in-game footage, and the results are scary accurate. The second trailer shows several familiar settings from the movie, and the similarities are remarkable. The trailer offers side-by-side comparisons of scenes like the We Slaughter Barbecue gas station, the Sawyer household and Leatherface's killing floor. If it wasn't for the captions underneath each image and the 1972 Ford Club Wagon parked in front of the gas station in the movie scene, it would be damn hard to tell them apart.Texas Chain Saw Massacre's set designs, built by Austin filmmaker and the film's art director Robert Burns, took time to build, especially the grisly settings for the Sawyer's backwoods home. According to the documentary directed by Joe O'Connell, Burns would spend hours driving to open fields and farm-to-market roads looking for skeletal remains of dead animals that he could use to build the Sawyer household's furniture, supposedly made from the human remains of their sawed up victims. Gun Interactive's game is not the first time that Hooper's blood-soaked classic got the video game treatment. The very firstgame came out on cartridges for the Atari 2600 console in 1983 by Wizard Video Games and let you play as Leatherface in 8-bit graphics, according to the bookThe manual refers to the game's main character as Leatherface and his weapons as a"chainsaw," but it looks more like Coach Buzzcut fromwith a sea cucumber trying to burrow its way out of his gullet. Players run around a scaled down version of the fields in front of the Texas homestead trying to cut up innocent teenagers for points until Leatherface's"chainsaw" runs out of fuel. The game caused quite a stir in a time when much tamer video games were being blamed for encouraging violence, aggression and even Satanism in children, and the game didn't sell very well. The cartridge, which was never approved by Atari for release, has since become a high-priced collectible. Last year, a single copy of the 1983 game went for as much as $629.20, according toIf Gun Interactive can wrangle up the rights to the Atari version of the game, it would make for a fun Easter egg. Did the Sawyers ever have an old color TV? Even redneck cannibals who wear human skin as a mask had to take a breather and watch, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Dallas, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism. You can help by participating in our"I Support" program, allowing us to keep offering readers access to our incisive coverage of local news, food and culture with no paywalls.
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