Stuntman Returns After 19 Years With KITT and the DeLorean

Nineteen years. That's how long it's been since Stuntman: Ignition landed on Xbox 360 and promptly vanished from the gaming conversation. Now Saber Interactive is dragging the series back from the dead with Stuntman: Hollywood, revealed during Sony's State of Play on June 2 and confirmed for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.

The hook here nostalgia; it's the licensing. According to the PlayStation Blog post from Saber producer Russ Dawson, the game is built around performing stunts for fictional movie shoots inspired by real Universal properties. Fast & Furious, Back to the Future, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, and Death Race are all confirmed. You'll drive KITT. You'll launch the DeLorean Time Machine off a ramp. There's apparently a school bus in there too. Each film is broken into episodes with unique vehicles and objectives, from drifting through a section to riding on two wheels, all under a timer with limited takes from the director.

Saber's Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits called the original Stuntman "a legend of gaming history" and said the studio is partnering with Universal again to evolve the formula. The blog post explicitly names Burnout and Split/Second as touchstones, and I'm honestly thrilled to see those influences worn so openly. Arcade racing with cinematic destruction and precision demands? That's a combination nobody else is really attempting right now, and it sits in a completely different lane from Forza Horizon 6 or the Screamer reboot.

The original games were brilliant and infuriating in roughly equal measure. Nailing a sequence felt incredible; retrying it forty times because you clipped a barrel did not. Whether Saber can keep the highs without the controller-snapping lows will determine if this revival actually sticks. No release date has been announced yet, but Stuntman: Hollywood is already wishlistable on the PlayStation Store.