'Marvel’s Deadpool VR' Game Announced At Summer Games Fest

Neil Patrick Harris voices the foul-mouthed Marvel antihero here, allowing Ryan Reynolds to have quite the fun with it.

The video game industry is in tumult, comic book superhero games far from the exception. I’ll get to that soon enough. Deadpool is getting a VR game? Well that’s alright then! Marvel’s Deadpool VR has been announced at Summer Game Fest, and is set to launch in late 2025 for Meta Quest 3 and 3S VR devices.

Marvel’s Deadpool VR was developed by Twisted Pixel and Oculus Studios, in collaboration with Marvel Games, and features a new story starring Neil Patrick Harris as the Merc with the Mouth. Last seen (on screen) playing the Toymaker in the third Doctor Who 60th anniversary special “The Giggle”, the Doogie Howser, M.D. and How I Met Your Mother star is returning to video games for the first time since he had a role in 2013’s Saints Row IV. He’s also been Spider-Man twice, for MTV’s Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, and the 2010 video game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, where he was the default Peter, alongside several fellow former voices for the character as Noir, 2099, and Ultimate. If you know you know.

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The game’s description reads, “After being pulled through a portal to Mojoworld, Deadpool sees a chance to get rich—like really rich. He signs a sketchy contract without reading any of the fine print and then it’s off to visit a bunch of locations from across the Marvel universe, battling against iconic (and not-so-iconic) villains. It’s real metaverse stuff—in the Marvel Universe sense, not the VR one.” The game developers boast that, “if you can imagine it, you can probably do it,” in Marvel’s Deadpool VR: “Sure, you can simply stab or shoot your enemies, but where’s the fun in that? Punch someone while holding a grenade? Check. Take your recently exploded-off arm and throw it at the bad guys? Gross, but also check. Hold an enemy’s face into a spinning propeller? A bloody, but efficient, check. Soldiers, demonic dogs, weird humanoid lizards, creepy worm-things, they’re all waiting to be dismembered in creative (some might say sadistic) ways.”

While Deadpool is now best known for being played by Ryan Reynolds in four films including a starring trilogy, his most frequent voice is the prolific Nolan North, and the video game appearance journey began with the voice of John Kassir in the mid-2000s. Still, being a Deadpool game, the marketing couldn’t help but being a little self-referential. Thus on Saturday morning, Reynolds released “Ryan Over-Reacts to Marvel’s Deadpool VR”, where he pretends to be Doogie Howser, writing one of the character’s signature journal entries, full of fake anger over the casting. He takes it a step further by including his sister-in-law, Robyn Lively, who really did play Howser’s eventual girlfriend, nursing student Michele Faber. The characters were still together at the series’s abrupt cancellation. She’s not in character and tries to break him out of it. Only the awkwardness of trying to hold a sister-in-law like a girlfriend basically breaks the immersion.

Ryan Reynolds, who captioned the Twitter share “How I met a real mother f’er”, sure is moving on gracefully. By the way did you know Robyn is married to Bart Johnson, Coach Bolton from the High School Musical trilogy? Well now you do. It’s time to suit up and watch the Marvel’s Deadpool VR trailer…on YouTube because age-restriction affects embeds apparently.

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Source: Variety