The Highlander Heart Show - The Video Game Episode

Grant and Joe delve into Highlander's video game past from the 1986 movie tie-in title right up to the incredible most recent pitch that nobody knew existed. Featuring exclusive never-before-seen video.

[@Yakerina]

I just love this interview. So much to learn, so much to see! Thank you, guys!

[@walter_the_wobot2349]

Here’s my pitch for a modern Highlander game:
An online multiplayer fighting game with RPG elements in the vein of Mortal Kombat but with swords and a fully 3D fighting arena like Tekken or Soul Calibur.
The game works in this way: you have a character creation tool for the player to customise their own immortal. You pick their gender, race, sword type, costume, name, and historical background. The game matches you against random players when you begin who are all at the same skill level as yourself. When you defeat a player their character is destroyed. FOR GOOD. They have to start again with a new character if they wish to continue playing. The victor receives their quickening which means that their stamina and/or strength bar increases appropriately. As players continue to win battles and their strength and stamina meters increase, the historical backdrops behind the players changes, progressing through history until you reach modern day New York where you will face the best players in the world. The backdrops are destructible and can be used during combat. Occasionally the game will randomly throw an unexpected spanner into the works such as noncombatants getting in the way, inclement weather making the terrain slippery, or even the very occasional 3 way fight. The game will feature cross play, meaning PC players will be able to face off against people playing on the Xbox Series consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Steam Deck. The player will also have the option of collecting their defeated foes swords (and using them in future fights) and they and other players will be able to view the Watchers stat screens which will include such things as the character’s name, background, numbers of Quickenings, and uploaded game clips, for rewatchability.
Obviously there is a single player offline and local player component as well. This features not only the character creation tool but allows players to pick classic movies characters to play as such as Ramirez or Conner.

[@dannymacgyver]

Honestly this breaks my heart as we could of had like 5-6 great games but at least developers heard of highlander nothing when it comes to Macgyver

[@nicklander3301]

Hey the female Macleod game was something really cool

[@Highlander1518]

I remember watching the Kim Justice review. It annoyed me a little because ‘she’ hadn’t seen the film for a long time and referred to it as ‘sword fights with silly accents’. A little bit unprofessional if you ask me. Grant, I was at HLWW in Leeds. I remember the Highlander game ‘chat’. Little did we know that it would never see the light of day.