League said as the release approaches, new levels will be added to the game. The movie hits video-on-demand April 1 and will be released theatrically in May.
The $2.99 Hobo With a Shotgun game is available for download now. "Everybody dies a bloody death," he says, "but it's a 16-bit, old-school death, so nobody's going to have any nightmares over it." League, who helped out with the Hobo With a Shotgun beta testing, said the game is fun, difficult enough to inspire repeat plays, and just as over the top as the movie. So, has Alamo, which has tapped a winning combination for genre films, found the silver bullet for creating a killer movie game – a prize that has long eluded big studios, which usually partner with giant gamemakers to churn out boring games with big price tags? 'It's really not a fair fight.'"It takes a lot of firepower to knock 'em out, and if you get cornered in the wrong part of the bumper car arena, you're doomed," League said. The game-development process was steered by Eisener, with many characters lifted from the movie, including a pair of villainous brothers in bumper cars who make for a crazy boss battle, according to League. It won director Robert Rodriguez's SXSW trailer contest for Grindhouse and was subsequently screened with the exploitation-flick double feature. The movie itself spun out of a fake trailer created by Eisener and colleagues. From their character designs, pumping soundtracks and color palettes, you can find all those inspirations in our film." "Games like Double Dragon 2, River City Ransom and Final Fight all had worlds we wanted to explore. "Growing up playing videogames in the '80s with my friends has attributed to a lot of my artistic tastes," Eisener said in a press release. Director Eisener said he and writer John Davies looked to vintage videogames when dreaming up the hobo's brutal world. The Hobo With a Shotgun game seems like a perfect project to test the concept.
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