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'Hobo with a Shotgun' Game Lets You Be Hobo, Fire Shotgun

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Continuing in the tradition of Twilight: Eclipse, The Expendables, The Room, Tremors, There Will Be Blood, and The Great Gatsby, Jason Eisener's grindhouse-style Hobo with a Shotgun now has its own old-school video game, retroactively giving you one more game your mom wouldn't have let you rent.

There is no debating that being a hobo with a shotgun is perhaps our greatest jumping off point for a video game, but there's a caveat to this bit of movie marketing: someone decided we should have to pay $2.99 for it, as if people on the internet pay for things. Also, for whatever reason, it's not a first-person shooter, so it doesn't really work that well in terms of letting you test out being violent derelict before you commit. But if you're still interested, here's the game's trailer:

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