“Be a Hollywood stuntman” remains one of the most elegant premises ever conceived for a driving game, and Saber Interactive is banking on that with the announcement of Stuntman Hollywood for PS5, Xbox, and PC.
The announce trailer dropped and immediately lit up automotive and gaming corners of the internet. It’s easy to see why. The clip stitches together stunts inspired by licensed Universal Pictures and NBCUniversal properties — Fast & Furious, Back to the Future, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, and Death Race — with transitions so slick they deserve their own stunt coordinator credit.
The standout moment: a Fast and the Furious sequence that melts into Miami Vice, the classic synth-cymbal hit landing precisely as a white Testarossa slides into frame. It’s the kind of detail that tells you someone on this team actually cares about the source material and isn’t just slapping logos on a product.
The original Stuntman games were cult favorites during the PS2 era, beloved for their punishing difficulty and the sheer dopamine rush of nailing a perfect take. The series vanished after Stuntman: Ignition in 2007, and its absence left a gap no other franchise quite filled. Open-world games absorbed some of the spectacle, sure, but nothing replicated that specific tension of hitting marks, threading gaps, and earning the director’s approval in a single unbroken shot.
Saber Interactive’s name on the project carries weight. The studio built Snowrunner, a game that earned a devoted following precisely because its vehicle physics felt convincingly heavy and consequential. If Saber brings that same commitment to how cars feel — the weight transfer through a J-turn, the drift angle on a Testarossa power slide — Stuntman Hollywood could be something genuinely special rather than just a nostalgia play.
No release date has been confirmed. Much of the trailer appears to be cinematic rather than actual gameplay footage, which is always worth flagging. Pretty cinematics have buried plenty of promising games before.
The confirmed movie tie-ins are the real differentiator here. Licensed properties are expensive and complicated, and the fact that Universal is lending out its crown jewels — the DeLorean, KITT, Dom Toretto’s universe of physics-optional vehicles — suggests genuine corporate commitment rather than a quiet budget release.
There’s a generation of gamers now in their 30s and 40s who remember white-knuckling PS2 controllers through the original Stuntman’s brutal difficulty curve. There’s a younger generation that grew up on Fast & Furious and has never played a driving game structured around performing stunts to spec rather than simply winning races. Stuntman Hollywood sits at the intersection of both audiences, which is either a massive opportunity or an impossible balancing act.
For now, the trailer is doing exactly what trailers are supposed to do: making people want more. Whether Saber can deliver a game that matches the craft of that two-minute clip is the only question that matters. The premise is bulletproof. It always was. That’s why it’s strange nobody revived it sooner.
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