Controversial Uwe Boll Movie Citizen Vigilante Gets PS5 Tie-In Game Next Week — And It Looks as Rough As You'd Expect

Controversial Uwe Boll revenge movie Citizen Vigilante is getting an authoritative PS5 game, seemingly made by a solo developer.

Boll's movie launched past period to predictably unspeakable reviews, contempt catching attraction for starring disgraced histrion Armie Hammer — whose Hollywood vocation ended aft allegations of maltreatment and a fetish for cannibalism (both of which Hammer has denied).

On PS5, Citizen Vigilante is listed for motorboat adjacent week via the PlayStation Store, with a assemblage of screenshots showing basic-looking first-person shooter gameplay featuring enemies that look to person travel from a PS2 game.

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The rubric describes itself arsenic a single-player story-driven "vigilante experience," and "the authoritative crippled based connected the movie by Uwe Boll" featuring "brutal, fast-paced enactment combat, gritty, convulsive gameplay with gore and dismemberment."

Citizen Vigilant's video crippled appears to beryllium the enactment of German solo developer Daniel Wengenroth, who has published much than 20 games to the PlayStation Store including Forklift 2024 — The Simulation, Taxi Driver — The Simulation, Stable Stories — Forest and Meadow Ride and galore subject shooters. Many of these look to diagnostic AI-generated artwork for their covers.

Exactly however this crippled has travel into beingness is unknown, arsenic is the level to which Boll himself has been involved. There is nary motion of Hammer's quality being successful the game. IGN has contacted Wengenroth for much detail.

A prolific manager of low-budget films, Boll is notorious for directing a drawstring of poorly-received video crippled adaptations, specified arsenic large surface versions of BloodRayne, House of the Dead, Alone successful the Dark, and Far Cry.

In Citizen Vigilante, Boll crafts a communicative centering connected a affluent American businessman (played by Hammer) surviving successful Croatia who becomes a feared vigilante targeting convulsive criminals and rapists. The movie has attracted beardown disapproval for its perceived anti-immigrant connection — to the grade that adjacent Hammer has since distanced himself from the movie.

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