IN YOUR LIVING ROOM – With both franchises achieving a landmark 10th entry and the fresh announcement of SAW XI, the Game Masters at SAW and Jackbox are putting their heads together for a combination that can bring some new life to the two well-established formulas, reports confirm.
Creative Director at Jackbox Games, Spencer Ham, spoke on the nature of the collaboration and the excitement of bringing in the SAW franchise in a press release: “After Jackbox 10, we didn’t want to just slow down. We wanted to speed up. Put the pedal to the medal. We’ve made people laugh, we’ve made people fight, hell, we’ve probably made a few cry! But we need to make them feel true fear.”
Following his speech, delivered in front of a model of the iconic Bathroom Trap from the premiere Saw, several titles for future games were announced, including Shotgun Couch, What’s Inside That Mind and Reverse Bear Hug.
Gameplay was shown from a reconfigured version of their highly popular Patently Stupid. Instead of designing a consumer product, contestants on “Let’s Design a Game” are tasked with designing the most grizzly SAW-style trap they can think of based and vote on it! Winning Traps are then entered into a raffle, and a select number of them will be built, and all the losing players will be strapped into it! So make sure there’s enough room for all your friends!
We asked director of the first SAW film, James Wan his thoughts on the crossover:
“What? I haven’t had anything to do with SAW for like, 19 years now? God that was so long ago. I’m making Aquaman now, dude. I’ve moved on. Do you want to talk Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom, actually?”
Talk about torture!
