Lyndsay Moir: The minds over at Ong Bak have been working closely with the game developers to ensure that the game has an authentic Ong Bak feel to it. Even the movies main protagonist, Tony Jaa, has lent his likeness to the game character, to give it that true Ong Bak atmosphere. With the game in final development, and the team working towards an imminent Winter release, it won't be long until we can trial out the game ourselves! The CEO at Immanitas Studios himself commented that, “we are confident that we will be able to deliver a game that will appeal to both gamers who love great action games as well as fans of the franchise”.
What do you think of the franchise extending into games, will you be buying it? And are you excited?
Last week, Thai developer Studio HIVE and film studio Sahamongkol Film International announced that the popular muay Thai martial arts movie series Ong-Bak would be adapted into a game. To find out more about the title, PSLS held an exclusive first interview with Kan Supabanpot, General Manager at Studio HIVE, about Tony Jaa’s involvement, the game’s background and which type of genre it will be. - PSLS
This just peaked my interest more i love Ong-Bak series.
Edit:Since were on the topic of Martial arts games how about a game of IP man??If you don't know that movie you need to watch is asap.
Anything from Donnie Yen would kick butt.
Flash Point game would be wicked, or even KillZone. Heck Dragon Tiger Gate would be a great spinoff to the Dragon Ball Z games from Namco.
Donnie Yen reminds me of Bruce Lee, but reinvented. He's a international actor that doesn't have any boundaries with his martial arts skills. If there's a fighting style he doesn't know, he'll learn it. Amazing guy.
Considering we're talking about Donnie Yen, I might as well point out Jacky Wu Jing as well. He's a very talented martial artist that hasn't got the fame he deserves. Donnie Yen fights him near the end of KillZone. He's a Incredible martial artist.
I'll definitely be on the lookout for more information on this game, I'm curious as to how the gameplay will be seeing as it is a side-scrolling game.
Hive Studio announced that they have successfully obtained a license to produce a game which based on Thailand’s action movie, Ong-Bak. A studio which is also based in Thailand was claimed that they would create a high-quality action game for gamers without forgetting the essence of the film.
Ong-Bak is a Thai martial arts movie series starring the incredibly hard-kicking Tony Jaa. If you've not seen them, you're missing out.
Thailand-based Studio Hive says it's developing the game for "various gaming platforms" for release in 2012. It's working in close collaboration with the license holder Sahamongkol Film International, which it says will help it to "achieve a much deeper story involvement for all Ong-Bak fans".
As long as its based off the first film and not the 2 god awful films that used the Ong Bak name.
Then again I played the Tom Yun Goong game made by a Thai game company, and it was horrible. Lets hope they put more effort into this one.
There's nobody to blame for those other two movies outside of Tony Jaa. Dude just got high on his own reputation.
In my opinion, that's just the Thai martial arts movie community in a nutshell. They did some really cool stuff for their first movie, and then for the second movie it was just, "We're the shiiiiiiiit."
I'd love to see someone just getting into making GOOD martial arts movies again, and not trying to be concerned with how awesome they look.
There's Donnie Yen for that...
This guy is awesome yet humble. I love just about all his movies. There's one about a vampire, though, that I'm avoiding and people said it was bad. I think it was trying to be like Twilight...I don't know, I didn't bother trying to watch it.
Otherwise, Donnie Yen is awesome and it's too bad he hasn't received any games based on him yet.
*shakes head* wow your a true hipster of martial arts...(not a complement)
when has any of Tony's movies been a good story....true fans watch Tony for his amazing moves.
Totally agree - I just hope there's enough love from the producers to create a game faithful to the source material.
The movie property itself wasnt even respected , why even bother assuming a game would ?
Tony jaa needs to be in more movies the things he does ive never seen in any martial arts movie ive seen bucket loads.
Tony jaa was cool until Donnie Yen came into the spotlight. I want to like jaa but damn the story in his movies are ridiculous.
Edit: @urwifeminder I agree, when ong bak and then protector hit I was showing everybody what he could do.
OOoo i loved this movie, one of my favorite fighting movies. Tony Jaa is amazing and i hope he comes out with more movies soon. Ong bak 2 and 3 were terrible imo but The Protector was awesome!
Yes, please! I absolutely love the Ong Bak series! 3 was a little slow, but it's still worth a watch. :)
Arkham City combat? I hope so.
Only the first movie was good, it slowly declined with the sequels, IMO. Anyways...if they can get the combat right and just satisfying to likes of Batman or more so, Sleeping dogs, would be good.
This game would be awesome if it had Batman Arkham series' combat system.