After hanging up his daggers as Drax the Destroyer and getting obtained as Glossu Rabban in Dune: Half Two, Dave Bautista is moving into video video games and animation with a brand new franchise by the title of Cat Murderer.
The wrestler-actor and his manufacturing firm Dogbone Leisure will convey to life a brand new concept from Steve Lerner, who wrote 2022’s feline journey recreation Stray. This may-be franchise will comprise a stealth-action online game—influenced by titles corresponding to Murderer’s Creed, Splinter Cell, and Sifu—from developer Titan1Studios (Love is a Roguelike, The Occasions at Unity Farm) and a “neo-noir grownup animated collection.”
Cat Murderer focuses on Hugh, an professional killer “caught between numerous cartels and energy brokers in a darkish and twisted metropolis.” Bautista’s a part of the enterprise’s “artistic imaginative and prescient,” however for the time being, it’s unclear if that additionally means he’ll lend his voice to Hugh in both animated or online game kind. (His present voice work contains the upcoming Military of the Useless animated collection and taking part in himself in WWE video games since 2003.)
Titan1 has a number of TV and recreation tasks within the works, so for the time being, there’s no actual window on when to anticipate Cat Murderer. Nonetheless, in a press release on Titan1’s web site Bautista known as teaming with the corporate “a pleasure … Their capability to construct worlds by means of animation has been so spectacular they usually’ve created a really distinctive world on this recreation that I can’t wait to share with gamers.”
Whereas the sport is seemingly anticipated for launch in October 2027 for PC and several other consoles, together with the Nintendo Change 2, Titan1 mentioned extra particulars on the general franchise’s future is anticipated “within the coming months.”
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