Friday the 13th: The Game - Ultimate Slasher Edition
For the first time ever, you will have the opportunity to play as Jason Voorhees, the most famous killer in horror. Stalk your prey, ambush them whenever you see fit and strike fear in the hearts of so many…
Friday the 13th: The Game - Ultimate Slasher Edition is a shooter developed by Illfonic, released 13 August 2019 on Nintendo Switch.
What Friday the 13th: The Game - Ultimate Slasher Edition is
Friday the 13th: The Game - Ultimate Slasher Edition is a shooter game developed by Illfonic and released in 2019. It was published by Gun Interactive. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
For the first time ever, you will have the opportunity to play as Jason Voorhees, the most famous killer in horror. Stalk your prey, ambush them whenever you see fit and strike fear in the hearts of so many hapless victims as you become the legend himself! Friday the 13th: The Game will include a variety of kills, new and familiar, that will help you set the tone for the Jason Voorhees that you want to be. You’ll even get to unlock various Jason incarnations from the movies! Jason will be equipped with a terrifying array of abilities, giving you the control of a hunter at the height of his game. These are his woods, and he knows them all too well. Jason will not only feed off the fear of…
How it plays
Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Friday the 13th: The Game - Ultimate Slasher Edition holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 45% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Friday the 13th: The Game - Ultimate Slasher Edition launched on 13 August 2019, within three weeks of Control, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Astral Chain and Remnant: From the Ashes. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Astral Chain, Remnant: From the Ashes.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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