John Carpenter's Toxic Commando (2024)

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https://beta.toxic-commando.com/

 

John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC in 2024

 

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando Announced at Summer Game Fest as a Wild FPS Tribute to '80s Action and Horror

Experience all that '80s action in a video game.

 

Publisher Focus Entertainment and developer Saber Interactive revealed John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, a wild co-op FPS game inspired by '80s action and horror, during today's Summer Game Fest livestream.

 

Carpenter, the iconic director behind movies like Halloween, The Thing, The Fog, Escape From New York, and a ton more, collaborated with Focus and Saber on the project, which is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC sometime next year. An exact release date was not released.

 

A short trailer during Summer Game Fest hinted at those '80s vibes, soundtracked with Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name."

 

“It’s exciting to be collaborating on a new video game with Focus and Saber,” Carpenter said in a statement along with the reveal. “Look, I really like shooting zombies. They keep telling me that they’re called ’the infected.’ Please. They’re ghouls, dude. They blow up real good and there are a ton of them. People are going to love this game.”

 

The game takes place in the near future, when an experimental attempt to harness the power of the Earth's core ends up in the release of "the Sludge God," an eldritch abomination that turns soil into scum and the living into undead monsters. Up to four players can team up to battle massive hordes of mutated monstrosities to eradicate the supernatural outbreak. It uses Saber's Swarm Engine, which also powered World War Z: Aftermath and the upcoming Space Marine 2.

 

https://www.ign.com/articles/john-carpenters-toxic-commando-announced-at-summer-game-fest-as-a-wild-fps-tribute-to-80s-action-and-horror

Edited June 9, 2023 by ziggypossum
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[Kittens Are Awesome]

There is nothing 80s, or John Carpenter, about that video. Just putting Bon Jovi over the soundtrack doesn't make something 80s. Besides, anything Carpenter would have his music, not Bon Jovi's for the soundtrack. That would have been epic.

 

The obvious exploitation of Carpenter's name aside, at least the game looks cool.

[JPtheNeurotic]

Was excited when I heard the name , disappointed seeing the actual game …