We’re big fans of action movies,” says Dmitry Pimenov, Nekki COO and Spine producer, when we ask about the studio’s shift from making mobile fighting games (it’s responsible for the Shadow Fight series) to its new console and PC single-player character action brawler. “We were thinking a lot about gun-fu movies, from Equilibrium and John Woo to John Wick and The Matrix and everything,” he continues.
It’s not often that devs bring up Equilibrium (the infamous