Rumored 'Ripper' Details: Jack the Vampire Slayer

by Chris Faylor, Oct 07, 2009 7:59am PDT

Related Topics – xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Rumor, PC

Assuming this latest rumor is to be believed, the folks responsible for turning Dante's Inferno into a video game are looking to transform Jack the Ripper into a superhero.

Destructoid reports, via "sources," that the Jack of "The Ripper" is a "supernatural slayer protecting people from demons, vampires and other evil monsters" packing an "assortment of over-the-top weapons" and an "ability that lets him slow down time."

While the project is still unconfirmed, word of "The Ripper" began making the rounds yesterday after Electronic Arts filed file and game-related trademarks on the title, with an overlooked rumor naming Dead Space maker Visceral Games as the developer.

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By: wozzeck x Show Full Post

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I'm still waiting for Adolf Hitler: Zombie Round-Up.

Oct 07, 2009 3:12pm PDT

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I'm still waiting for Adolf Hitler: Zombie Round-Up. : wozzeck
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- How about Josef Stalin: Kitten Killer. : richm74
- Jesus: Witch Hunter Chronicles : ManiacalMoose

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They're actually going to try to make a brutal serial killer into a heroic figure? I guess it's okay since he only mulilated and murdered prostitutes. And in EA's eyes, they dont count as real people.

Oct 07, 2009 9:37am PDT

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They're actually going to try to make a brutal serial killer into a heroic figure? I guess it's okay sinc... : dhopkins
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- Oh and they were in the dirt poor eastend of Laaaandunnnn town. So it'll be alright then! Oy! /face... : richm74

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For everyone getting upset about this, what is the difference between this and Dexter? Jack the Ripper might have not been real in the first place.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1176040/Jack-Ripper-invented-win-tabloid-newspaper-war.html

Oct 07, 2009 2:56pm PDT

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For everyone getting upset about this, what is the difference between this and Dexter? Jack the Ripper m... : baron calamity
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  Dexter kills other serial killers. So metaphorically he is acting as an "Angel of Retribution". Jack the ... : rottdcorpse
  - Well and truly agreed! : richm74

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Okay, I love Dead Space, but what the fuck.

Oct 07, 2009 8:22am PDT

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Okay, I love Dead Space, but what the fuck. : hopterque1987
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- My reaction exactly. : Arceihn
- Can't wait for another game with a slow-down-time mechanic. It only got old seven or eight years ago. : Wayne Z

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By: SeraphielX x Show Full Post

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Next up:

A video game based on John Wayne Gacy, except he's actually a Martian who uses his shapeshifting powers to protect the planet from malicious aliens disguised as nurses who are secretly dosing everyone with mind-control drugs.

Oct 07, 2009 5:39pm PDT

Next up: A video game based on John Wayne Gacy, except he's actually a Martian who uses his shapeshif... : SeraphielX

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Ok this sounds interesting, but I figure some people may get their panties in a bunch and lobby EA to change the game for a 100+ year old murder.

Oct 07, 2009 10:12am PDT

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Ok this sounds interesting, but I figure some people may get their panties in a bunch and lobby EA to cha... : stgdz
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  Sigh.....you just don't get it do you? The fact that it occured a long time ago does nothing to take aw... : rottdcorpse
  - Fucking MTV generation.......sickening...... : rottdcorpse
  - Oh please, it isn't even an original concept. : baron calamity

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By: King Kavik x Show Full Post

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See, gamers have morals. GTA does not deteriorate this.

Oct 07, 2009 1:18pm PDT

See, gamers have morals. GTA does not deteriorate this. : King Kavik

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By: Popedispencer x Show Full Post

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I love how all the details about the game are kinda vague except that there's an ability that lets you slow down time.

Oct 07, 2009 11:13am PDT

I love how all the details about the game are kinda vague except that there's an ability that lets you sl... : Popedispencer

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By: rottdcorpse x Show Full Post

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This is just wrong on so many levels.
Clearly EA just have no class.

I'm just.....disgusted.

Oct 07, 2009 9:46am PDT

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This is just wrong on so many levels. Clearly EA just have no class. I'm just.....disgusted. : rottdcorpse
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- Ooo I got an idea.... Jack can disembowel female characters and wear their ovaries as a necklace. : molaughlen
- I agree. You wouldn't make a game where you turn Hitler or Ed Gein into a hero. Why Jack the Ripper? It's... : SnakeIRye

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If true: Way to go EA for taking another historical legend and MTVing it up.

Oct 07, 2009 8:42am PDT

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If true: Way to go EA for taking another historical legend and MTVing it up. : Anastomosis
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- Hate it when they do that. : gydot
- I'm looking forward to their Moby Dick game: Ishmael is a mercenary with a shadowy past and dark personal : ZTac

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How about a SIMS type game where you play a supernatural Robert Pickton and need to keep your pig farm running by feeding them dead prostitute vampires? Maybe I should be a VP at EA with ideas like this! *face palm/shakes head*

Oct 07, 2009 10:17am PDT

How about a SIMS type game where you play a supernatural Robert Pickton and need to keep your pig farm ru... : Thund3rball

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jack the ripper mutilated those prostitutes because they were vampires and the only way to kill vampires is to tear out their guts with surgical precision

Oct 07, 2009 8:27am PDT

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- And naturally, the only way to really remove the heart of a vampire is to have a Flux Capacitor on-hand s... : NickDelios
- Stake to the pussy! A pleasurable death. : TwwIX
- And then Jack.... (get it?) to their exposed sexual organs : molaughlen

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How about an MUA-style game where Osama Bin Laden, Jeffrey Dahmer, Timothy McVeigh, Chuckles Manson et al. team up to battle the H1N1 virus?

Oct 07, 2009 9:51am PDT

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- Lol, the H1N1 virus? You mean the flu? Influenza? Tut-tut, trying to sound clever :P You should have adde... : rottdcorpse

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Wow, what a brilliant idea! They should definitely turn this into a franchise. I'm thinking in game 2 they could introduce Ted Bundy as a sidekick, and have Ed Gein as the comic relief.

Oct 07, 2009 8:48am PDT

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Wow, what a brilliant idea! They should definitely turn this into a franchise. I'm thinking in game 2 the... : antisocialfatman
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- Ha! : Rich McNinch

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This should be a Joss Whedon project about the adventures of Rupert "Ripper" Giles before becoming Buffy's Watcher.

Oct 07, 2009 9:49am PDT

This should be a Joss Whedon project about the adventures of Rupert "Ripper" Giles before becoming Buffy'... : Rich McNinch

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