Prepare To Die! FRIDAY THE 13th Video Game Announced In Time For This Year's Reboot

Prepare To Die! FRIDAY THE 13th Video Game Announced In Time For This Year's Reboot

The first FRIDAY THE 13th video game in decades has been announced for a late 2015 release. Does this have anything to do with the film?

By Darkknight2149 - Jan 10, 2015 01:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: EGM
The Friday The 13th series is a franchise that helped define the slasher sub-genre of horror as we know it today. We have had at least one installment of the franchise come out every decade since the '80s...that is, if we are discussing the movies.



It has just became public knowledge that the Friday The 13th franchise will receive its first video game adaptation in over 25 years, as the last video game was release on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989.

The latest video game is currently in development under the working title, Friday The 13th, and is intended to be released under multiple gaming systems this October. With a Friday The 13th TV series in the works and a reboot slated for a 13 November 2015 release date, some will wonder if the game is an adaptation of either. While the game isn't a direct spin-off of any version of the franchise series in particular, the game will incorporate elements of both the upcoming show and reboot, as well as the classic film series.

Friday co-creator Sean Cunningham confirmed his involvement and shed some light on why he felt a new video game was the way to go: "With a new television series on the horizon and plans announced for the thirteenth installment of the film franchise, we felt the timing was right to finally explore Jason [Voorhees], Camp Crystal Lake, and the rest of the Friday the 13th story in interactive form. We have some exciting new ideas for a game that supplies plenty of replay value, while delivering the kinds of thrills and scares that fans of the franchise have come to expect."

Expect an announcement of the game's developers and possibly the final title soon.
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Anthrax
Anthrax - 1/10/2015, 2:08 PM
Sweet can't wait to see some more detail/footage.
Darthzilla
Darthzilla - 1/10/2015, 2:30 PM
If the game isnt about "Jason goes to Hell" where the plot is Jason is in hell and you have to fight demons, then whats the point?
Darthzilla
Darthzilla - 1/10/2015, 2:30 PM
Also I didnt even know there was a new movie coming out.

Get dat hype rollin
Calculon
Calculon - 1/10/2015, 2:51 PM
I've been playing Alien: Isolation, and it occurred to me that a Friday the 13th game would work well with that same format.
SecNotSure
SecNotSure - 1/10/2015, 3:06 PM
Please let there be an unlockable mode to play as Jason.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 1/10/2015, 3:11 PM
I've been playing Alien: Isolation, and it occurred to me that a Friday the 13th game would work well with that same format


What he said
TheSuperguy
TheSuperguy - 1/10/2015, 3:39 PM
Sweet! So glad that the franchise is making a real comeback in movies, tv, and now video games!
Baka
Baka - 1/10/2015, 4:10 PM
Wait since when were they rebooting Friday the 13th again?
BigDaddyJinx
BigDaddyJinx - 1/10/2015, 4:16 PM
Wait...WUT?

When did they announce yet another reboot of the franchise? WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?!

Not too excited about the game and spinoffs tied in with it...but a reboot of the franchise I grew up with is welcome news for sure. Let's hope it fares better than the first attempt at a reboot.
EthanSmith1
EthanSmith1 - 1/10/2015, 4:21 PM
Cool. Give me a Halloween game that takes place in '78 where I can play as a main character, Dr. Loomis, and Michael, and I can die happy.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 1/10/2015, 4:38 PM
@Ruhail
@BigDaddyJinx

The reboot was announced a while ago, actually. It was originally slated to come out on 13 March but they delayed it to November. It's rumoured to be set in the 1980s like the original films.
Baka
Baka - 1/10/2015, 5:00 PM
@darkknight2149
Thanks
mgeoff88
mgeoff88 - 1/10/2015, 5:02 PM
I'm not horror movies as much as used to be, but I do play horror games.

If the Friday the 13th game gets good reviews, I will defintely check it out.

@SecNotSure Forget that! I just want to kick Jason's ass all over Camp Crystal Lake.

I just hope there is an online co-op mode, so you can play with other people to take on Jason. That would be cool.

They could also do an online co-op mode where one player can be Jason who goes after the other players. Kind of like the versus mode in Left 4 Dead 2.
MrHighway
MrHighway - 1/10/2015, 6:02 PM
TellTale Games should make it!!!!
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 1/10/2015, 6:53 PM
Will I get to murder horny teenagers at an abandoned summer camp? I've been waiting for the game that let's me do that. It doesn't actually have to be a video game, come to think of it...
huckfinnisher
huckfinnisher - 1/10/2015, 9:00 PM
@SectNotSure that would be awesome man!! I'm thinking of it like hitman the game but your jason and you get more points the more outrageously and visibly you kill someone. I like the idea of turning the stealth thing on it's head and making it be less points for the cowards way, if you can't beat up six resourceful teenagers then you lose points.

That said a monster game in general where you create a character and a back story and go on to haunt the house etc (wherever you choose, maybe lake) with your created monster and it's abilities to kill your victims in creative and environmentally interactive ways until the whole city is burning.

A man can dream.
MarkyMarkRises
MarkyMarkRises - 1/10/2015, 9:26 PM
I liked the one with Sam Winchester
BigDaddyJinx
BigDaddyJinx - 1/10/2015, 10:34 PM
Set in the 80s? AW YISS!
ShadowakaTankD
ShadowakaTankD - 1/10/2015, 11:47 PM
They are ripping off gameplay elements from a game that hasnt came out yet called last year. even though last year ripped off the look of vorhees
SecNotSure
SecNotSure - 1/11/2015, 12:28 AM
@mgeoff88

I want to do that as well. I just think having a mode that lets you play the game from Jason's pov, after you've beaten said game, would be a nice add-on.

@huckfinnisher

Exactly. Like the Punisher for xbox where you could use the environment to perform some outrageously brutal kills. Man I loved that game. The thing about Friday the 13th is after the first 3 the people in the movies became so [frick]ing stupid I started rooting for Jason to kill them off. So being able to wipe out those annoying bitches in a game would be awesome imo.

Your idea about creating your own monster would be amazing. Like a 'Cabin in the Woods' type of thing.
Luminus
Luminus - 1/11/2015, 1:18 AM
No sex/boobs, no buy.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 1/11/2015, 9:27 AM
@Luminus

An anonymous source tells me that Jason will have HUGE boobs in the game.
Darkknight2149
Darkknight2149 - 1/11/2015, 9:34 AM
@Luminus

Kidding, lol
huckfinnisher
huckfinnisher - 1/11/2015, 9:47 AM
@SecNotSure, that punisher game was epic.
Luminus
Luminus - 1/11/2015, 10:38 AM
@darkknight2149: What the hell, dog? There's like 12 messages from you and they all lead here, but only 2 responses. lol.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 1/11/2015, 11:46 AM
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