The Boondock Saints Video Game is a 'Full-On Co-Op Shooter'

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Critical Mass, a developer whose CV includes pitching in on games like Rift, Epic Mickey and Tabula Rasa, is spreading its wings with its very own project based upon a movie license. It's a video game version of the 1999 Boston-set cult crime thriller, The Boondock Saints, featuring the vengeful MacManus twins.

 

Set to be a "full-on co-op shooter", Critical Mass wants to release The Boondock Saints Video Game as a proper retail product, but failing that the game might go downloadable and episodic instead. "We don't want to do a crap-ass franchise game," Critical Mass CEO Matt Scibilia told G4. "We're staying true to the content. We're looking to expand the story, not just retell the franchise."

 

And stay true to the franchise it shall, according to Scibilia: "The Boondock Saints characters are so strong - the banter, the relationships between Rocco and the brothers, the Catholicism, that will all be featured in the game." There's even a motion comic being planned for release alongside the game.

 

Critical Mass will be joined by some of the original Boondock Saints cast at SXSW's Screenburn event in Austin, Texas on March 11th to talk more about the details of the game. The developer will then be showing off the game during secret sessions at PAX East in April.