Netflix introduced that gamers of its newly launched Squid Sport Unleashed sport will be capable to unlock in-game rewards for watching Squid Sport Season 2.
The extra gamers watch, the extra rewards they may win.
That is one thing solely an enormous firm like Netflix can do, and it’s the most recent type of transmedia, the place Netflix is leveraging each its streaming video management with the Squid Sport property, which has had greater than 300 million viewers, and its place as a rising participant in cellular video games.
Squid Sport Season 2 premieres on December 26, and it’s coming simply after the December 17 launch of Squid Sport: Unleashed, which Netflix calls the definitive Squid Sport video sport. Netflix’s greatest sequence ever is arriving with its greatest video sport ever, the corporate mentioned.
This provides to the checklist of ‘firsts’ for this sport, which incorporates making it free for everybody – even with no Netflix membership. I’ve performed the sport and it presents you with challenges just like the TV present, the place you lose your life when you fail to compete properly in battle royale missions.
In Pink Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle, you must run throughout a line throughout a inexperienced gentle. When you’re nonetheless transferring when it turns to a purple gentle, you’re shot and faraway from the sport. You get some mercy breaks the place you can begin over, however you fall behind. Whereas the graphics are cartoon-like, there’s blood within the sport when you’re shot or in any other case fail. As you play increasingly, you accumulate money and should buy objects that may aid you carry out higher within the sport. And now by watching the present, you will get much more fake money.
It reveals a number of promise as different TV reveals like Fallout and The Final of Us have been capable of reignite curiosity within the video video games they’re primarily based on, however we’ve but to see what occurs when sequence and video games come out on the identical service on the identical time.
Right here’s the rewards for gamers. By “money,” Netflix means in-game foreign money. And “wild token” refers to an opportunity to spin the in-game wheel for extra prizes.
- Reward 1- 15,000 Money. Free, requires 0 episodes watched
- Reward 2- 20 Wild Tokens. Watch 1 episode
- Reward 3- 20,000 Money. Watch a second episode
- Reward 4- 25 Wild Tokens. Watch a 3rd episode
- Reward 5- 25,000 Money. Watch a fourth episode
- Reward 6- 50 Wild Tokens. Watch a fifth episode
- Reward 7- 50,000 Money. Watch a sixth episode
- Reward 8- Binni Binge-Watcher Outfit. Watch a seventh episode (photographs beneath)