Reading Rainbow will soon be made into a gritty AAA shooter for Xbox One and PS4 consoles, executive producer LeVar Burton announced in a Kickstarter video Monday. Having met its five million dollar stretch fundraising goal, the tentatively titled Read Or Die: Rainbows of Blood will feature dozens of weapons, enemies, possible endings, hundreds of hours of replayability, and some books.
The post-apocalyptic shooter will take place in a zombie-filled Corpus Cristi, Texas where players can expect to fight off the horde of undead illiterate citizens using their wit as well as high-powered weaponry. To accommodate the blood and water effects of the coastal city, Read Or Die: Rainbows of Blood will run on the latest Unreal engine, as LeVar Burton demonstrated during the Kickstarter announcement video.
“We want to kids to understand that reading can be fun,” a blood-soaked and assault rifle-toting Burton said while standing in front of a slideshow displaying the game’s horrific death sequences, “And we also want them to feel immersed in the hellish world we have created with these sweet graphics and blood physics.” Burton also went on to quickly explain how books will play their part in the game, with fiction books detonating on impact causing massive splash damage and non-fiction causing fire damage over time.
Small puzzle sections where children are required to demonstrate reading ability and comprehension are also included in the game, but are hidden and entirely optional. As Burton explained, “The last thing we want is to bore elementary school kids and force them to read when there are endless waves of zombies they could be blowing to pieces. We want this to sell, not end up in discount bins next to some Leapfrog bullshit in a week.”
The game’s modest $4.7m budget will be taken entirely from the generous Kickstarter money donated by fans, something that Burton is aware of and very thankful for. “There’s no way we could have done this without Kickstarter,” he said during a quick question and answer section following the announcement, “And these games aren’t cheap you know. A mobile app? We can get some pimple-fucked nerd to do that with $30 and an hour on the internet. The real money is in shooters. Guns and zombies. And Unreal 4. Fuck yeah.”
Read Or Die: Rainbows of Blood is expected to release sometime in Q3 of 2015 with a strong presence at E3 next year. If the new six million dollar stretch goal can be reached in time, Burton and the rest of the Reading Rainbow team hope to acquire their own section of the conference and drench the entire thing in and endless fountain of pig’s blood to generate hype for the education platform.
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