IGN -> Five Fingers of Death - Bioware's unreleased kung-fu strategy-RPG game in the style of BG.Tell them to go make this game and/or Jade Empire 2...like NOW.
You were this close to playing a kung fu riff on Baldur's Gate.
Speaking at DICE last night, BioWare's Dr. Ray Muzyka revealed that many, many years ago, he created Five Fingers of Death, an adventure that combined the successful Baldur's Gate formula with a love for kung fu movies.
In fact, those movies were going to play a pivotal part in Five Fingers, as cutscenes to punctuate the action and advance what sounded like a rather unserious narrative. Apparently, Muzyka himself edited old footage in Premiere and provided a good number of the voice overs.
Sounds crazy, right? Too bad Bioware's then-publisher didn't quite see it that way.
"We took it out to Interplay and they laughed us out of the building," said Muzyka.
What a shame. Sounds like the perfect downloadable game, though, right? After all, good ideas never die. They just get filed away in the minds of their creators.
