Showgunners - Running Man Sci Fi Strategy RPG 

Ouch! Sounds painful. Try ducking next time.

Yeah, the short story by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) is MUCH darker.

The game you're thinking about is Lethal Running, i kept an eye on his development and the full release is seemingly out but apparently is pretty bad and buggy

@@Miki90Mar damn. I had high hopes for that. The art style was pretty good too.

@@georgeblair3894 heck yea. Imagine if they ended the film with the literary version.

@@90maducc Even for the 80's (early 90's), that would've been one DARK (sorry to reuse that term) movie.

And that's why you and I are here, watching splatty demo games for us. The guy is a pillar of the community and the only game reviewer I follow.

Nowadays it's possible to buy a game from an online store, play it for a hour or so and then return it before a certain time if you feel it's not for you.

@@SurprisinglyDeep I have a PC, Switch, and Ps5; neither Playstation nor Nintendo offer this option.

@@Cancer_Cam Playstation has Playstation Plus though. You don't have to buy some games to play them. Also there are still actual demos for some games available as digital demos on the online stores like the online Playstation Store.

@@SurprisinglyDeep demos for some games but not all games, which doesn’t fit my want for all games to have them. Also paying for a subscription for an extended period of time basically pays the price of the game.

thats exactly what they do in certain scenes.

Sounds like my runs lol

Agreed, it's like a breath of fresh air

Homicidal All-Stars

Yup, that one. Still the name of the show they compete in.

Maybe mid-level employees from the show were told by their bosses to offer those other contestants free crack cocaine which made it that when those contestants used it they became high as all hell during the fight and therefore were not thinking logically during the fight. Myabe the other contestants were convicted criminals serving out life sentences for first degree murder that were told "we bribed the state to let you go if you win this game show, if you whack that red haired woman and that black haired man we'll get you pardoned but if you fail to whack them before the timer on the bombs run down you'll just be sent back to prison." Maybe the other contestants were going to be sent to the electrical chair for horrific crimes but instead were purchased by the evil corporation, lobotomized and were turned into mindless remote controlled drones instead. Maybe they were killers running free from the law who were told by the corporate executives "the game show takes place inside a city the corporation purchased that is no longer subject to the laws of the United States" and "if you whack those other 2 contestants before the bombs would naturally go off we'll give you each like 2 million dollars and a plane ride to a country with no extradition treaty with the United States government." These are just some possible explanations I came up with.

I thought he did cover a game a while back that was kind of a mix between Smash TV and Binding of Isaac... I forget what it was called though.

Big money! Big prizes!!

Same here, thought this looked strangely familiar as I had Homicidal All Stars on my Steam wishlist for a while. Guess they wanted a more family friendly title? :)

@@DiscoMachine-78 LOL yeah, imagine trying to get "homicidal all stars" past a ratings board.....

Yet it seems they've kept the name as the in-game title of the television series being produced; kind of a nice touch.

@@DarrylCross ah good spot. also possible they had already finished that before they changed the games name.