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Added by Jeff Gerstmann on April 27, 2009

Still not convinced any of this is really happening.
Still not convinced any of this is really happening.
ZootFly has announced plans to develop a Mr. T game based on the "official Mr. T graphic novel license" held by Mohawk Media. Why do I feel like this is some kind of elaborate prank?

Oh, because the release goes on to say that the "first game" (implying this will be a series) has Mr. T fighting "Nazis and their giant machines" across multiple environments. Characters from the Mr. T graphic novel will also appear.

One of those characters is apparently Will Wright, which is the part where this whole thing--which was barely hanging together by a thread to begin with--blasts apart and does severe damage to my psyche. In the Mr. Tniverse, Will Wright is an American geneticist who is kidnapped and forced by the Nazis to work on something truly evil. As the release goes on to say, "Mr. T and Will Wright will join forces to annihilate the Nazis and their hardware."

So, to recap:
  • There are Nazis.
  • They are evil.
  • Mr. T will fight them.
  • And he will fight them with the help of the man who developed SimCity.
  • My head exploded right around the fourth step of this breakdown.
  • This whole thing sounds like an interactive fever dream.
  • I now feel like someone's been watching me sleep.

This is the last Mr. T game i attempted to play.
This is the last Mr. T game i attempted to play.
OK, got it? Good. If anything, this should end up being a bit better than the last time Mr. T appeared in a video game, which I'm pretty sure was the Atari 2600 version of The A-Team... and that game wasn't even publicly released.

If you're after more confusing text about the game, Justin McElroy had something to say about it on Joystiq today. And Destructoid's Nick Chester interviewed ZootFly on the subject today, as well. Me, I'm going to go rest my head for a minute and see if this all goes away.

Filed under : ZootFly, LLC.

87 Comments

MattyFTM
on April 27, 2009
Sounds... weird, odd, crazy, insane and TOTALLY FUCKING MESSED UP!!!!

Not that that is necessarily a bad thing.

LiveOrDie1212
on April 27, 2009
i pity the foo

Meltbrain is online
on April 27, 2009
Hahaha, Interactive Fool Pitying. That made me laugh. Emergent Fool Pitying, perhaps? Real-time Fool Pity.

OmegaPirate
on April 27, 2009
Wow, umm, i wonder ig they'll throw in a load of snickers advertising on billboards and stuff

Mr T's getting old :'(

SilverShadow
on April 27, 2009
Sounds crazy...but I would probably end up playing it

Luke
on April 27, 2009
Wow!  Wasn't April Fool's Day like almost a month ago?

Cerza
on April 27, 2009
Good God...

Cynical_M
on April 27, 2009
Is it to early to say this will be the game of the year?

Diamond
on April 27, 2009
Hopefully this will pave the way for a fully fledged A-Team game.  This future A-Team game will have the open worlds of GTA4, Far Cry 2, Fallout 3 and destruction of Red Faction Guerrilla.  The gameplay mechanics can be described as Jagged Alliance 2 meets Call of Duty 4.  There will also be 4 player online and offline coop.

Church069
on April 27, 2009
Wow, Mr. T and Will Wright, we just need two more members and we have a new A-Team?!

This is just to insane to comprehend.

Love the fool pitying references.

lilarchie232
on April 27, 2009
Dood yes!

RHCPfan24
on April 27, 2009
FUCK YEAH.  This sounds so incredibly insane yet so awesome!

Afroman269
on April 27, 2009
If this comes out, this will blow 50 cent BOTS outta the water FOO!!!!!

Metal_Gear_Sunny is online
on April 27, 2009
I hope that this game goes like that Robot Chicken sketch.

LordAndrew
on April 27, 2009
I just attached Will Wright's character page to the the Mr. T game page. Think about that. There's a Will Wright character page, and I attached it to a Mr. T game page. None of this makes any sense, and I think that's actually kind of awesome.

Metal_Gear_Sunny is online
on April 27, 2009
Metal_Gear_Sunny said:
"I hope that this game goes like that Robot Chicken sketch."
  

bobpie24
on April 27, 2009
Yes.

Snapstacle
on April 27, 2009
Day one pre-order party~!

Endogene
on April 27, 2009
I expect this to be something like this:





Artemis_D
on April 27, 2009
Finally.


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