The skull indicates the gang are DEALERS OF DEATH. And that they *really* like Halloween.
Amid the glut of quality shows available to those living in the Golden Age of Binge TV, FX’s Sons of Anarchy has always seemed like an also-ran. Good enough for seven seasons (with the series finale airing tonight), but next to the likes of Game of Thrones, True Detective, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, House of Cards… well, you get the picture.
Maybe that impression is simply due to “gun-trafficking motorcycle gang” being a bit on-the-nose, theme-wise, for a show trying to grab an ever-diminishing slice of viewers jonesing for unexpected character deaths. Or, maybe, it’s because Sons of Anarchy has yet to have its own video game tie-in.
Yesterday, the newly formed Orpheus Interactive announced via press release a partnership with Fox Digital Entertainment on the development of Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect. We’re told this will be an “episode-based” game focused on “an original story, location and previously unknown chapter of the motorcycle club.” Details are slim at the moment, but it certainly sounds like SoA: The Prospect could be at least passingly similar to other episodic, story-focused television tie-ins we’ve seen (Telltale’s work comes to mind as the high-water mark for interactive dramas written and paced like cable series).
Also saddling-up for SoA: The Prospect are Silverback Games, a Canadian team who’ve developed a string of point-and-click/hidden object games. As any true outlaw biker knows, the toughest thing about trafficking in drugs and other such illicit items is finding the damn things after hiding them in a trunk, in turn inside a closet, in turn inside a room which can only be opened by a key cleverly set into Lady Laffertey’s ballroom chandelier. No, wait, it’s the gunfights. Those are toughest.
Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect is coming sometime “early 2015,” to mobile devices and tablets. In lieu of a trailer there’s a biker gang take on “House of the Rising Sun” below.
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