The Taskmaster VR game is out in a few weeks, and Little Alex Horne is resigned to what his avatar can expect from you sickos: 'They will definitely do things to me'
But he's at least pretty sure you can't strip him like they do in the show.
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Taskmaster VR, the official virtual reality-ification of the phenomenally popular comedy TV show, has finally gotten its release date. It'll hit on June 13 this year and, more than anything, show host and creator (Little) Alex Horne is just worried about what players are going to do to him.
"They will definitely do things to me," Horne told PCG in a recent interview, "I wasn't worried until one of the developers told me that if you open the door an inch then people will kick it down and do bad things."
Horne has good reason to worry. Taskmaster VR is, essentially, a replication of the TV show's format. Players have to perform tasks to the exacting standards laid down by host Greg Davies, all under the supervision of a "slightly more sinister" version of Horne himself. Fail, and you can expect to be mocked. "You'll be scolded, you'll be put in your place," said (the real) Horne, which might end up giving players the impetus to strike back, though he takes some consolation in the fact that "I'm pretty sure the clothes are non-removable," so you can't quite subject him to the same indignities he suffers in the show.
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