Canceled BioWare Kung Fu Game Revealed

Some more interesting tidbits from the DICE convention last night, as BioWare’s Ray Muzyka talks about Five Fingers of Death, a tongue-in-cheek kung fu game using Baldur’s Gate mechanics that the team was working on years ago before Interplay dismissed the idea.

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.