Pepsi man video game movie#

Pepsiman is based on Pepsi's mascot of the same name, which was created for Pepsi's Japanese branch. In between stages, the player is shown videos of an American man (Mike Butters) drinking Pepsi and eating chips and pizza while he's 'watching' you play. Each stage ends with Pepsiman being chased by an object, including a giant Pepsi can. Throughout each stage is a number of checkpoints if the player gets hit by obstacles too many times, he has to restart from the latest checkpoint.

In some stages, Pepsiman's head becomes stuck inside a steel drum, which inverts the controls, and in some, he uses a skateboard. The player gains points by collecting Pepsi cans. The player does this by using four different moves: running, dashing, jumping, and super-jumping. The player aims to dodge obstacles, such as cars, construction cranes, and people, as well as Pepsi-branded obstacles, including a Pepsi truck. The game is played from a third-person perspective, with Pepsiman automatically running forwards through the stage, sometimes running through people's living rooms. Most stages are based on real locations, such as San Francisco, New York City and Texas except for the last one, Pepsi City. Pepsiman is an action game that consists of four stages, each divided into smaller segments, and each involving the superhero Pepsiman saving a person who is dehydrated, such as a military man in the middle of a desert, by giving them a can of Pepsi.

The player tries to dodge obstacles while Pepsiman automatically runs forward. According to Uchikoshi, the game did not sell well. A writer for Complex included it on a list of company-branded games that 'didn't suck', commenting that it is not a bad game as long as the player can tolerate the large amount of advertisement in it. Reviewers frequently compared the game to other games, including Crash Bandicoot, and commented on its simplicity and its price, which was thought to be low. While an American publisher did look into acquiring the rights to publish the game in the United States, it ended up being a Japan-exclusive game. The game also features 3D cutscenes, for which the future visual novel writer Kotaro Uchikoshi created 3D models. The game was made with a low budget, prompting the decision to make videos in-between stages that show a man drinking Pepsi, as they were cheap to produce. It focuses the player on avoiding obstacles by running, dashing, and jumping, while Pepsiman automatically runs forward through each of the game's stages. It was released in Japan on March 4, 1999, and is based on the American carbonated soft drink Pepsi's eponymous superhero mascot.

The film won an Floscar award for 'Biggest financial risk.Pepsiman is an action game developed and published by KID for the PlayStation.

Pepsi man video game movie#

James Rolfe makes a cameo in the movie as a running civilian in the final battle scene.A few months before the film's release, a Remastered version of the original game was released internationally for the PS5.Pepsiman himself was achieved with CGI and Motion Capture of The Rock.The film brought back Pepsiman ads, and the character is now Pepsi's well-known mascot globally.The film received a 48 on Metacritic, a 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 7.0/10 on IMDb. Reception was quite mixed, with reviews ranging from the film being an unfunny and boring cash grab to a self-aware, entertaining story with realistic, relatable and likable characters. Meanwhile back at the meeting, after 2 weeks of discussion, Sony executives voted unanimously to distribute the movie under Columbia Pictures. As a result, both MGM and Universal abandoned the project shortly before production began. However, Sony, United Artists, and Universal could not agree on who gets what in profit shares. Originally, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayor was going to distribute the films in other territories under United Artist Releasing, with Universal Pictures distributing the film in the UK as part of the agreement. At the end of production, executives from Sony held a meeting on rather to release this movie under the Columbia or Tristar banner. The film was released to 4K UHD, Blu-Ray 3-D, Blu-Ray, and DVD ON June 1st, 2024, and on Netflix on July 1st 2024. Pepsiman the Movie was released on March 1st, 2024 worldwide, just 3 days before Pepsiman's 25th anniversary. The main antagonist is Professor O'lare, played by Willem Dafoe.Дwayne 'The Rock' Johnson - Perry Simons / Pepsiman The film is an Origin story for Pepsiman and a story of a man's double life and trying to keep his Pepsiman identity from his girlfriend, while also trying to figure out what's best for them and for the world.