Hooked on the Game

Nov 26, 2009

1h 37m

★ 5.7

Overview

After a stunning victory at a cyber sport tournament, the winning gamers are awarded CDs with a brand new game. After playing this game, each of them is affected with some force, turning their gaming abilities into real ones. They each become the best fighters, shooters and racers in real life. However, this does not go unnoticed. Through blackmail, cheating and bribes, authorities offer the gamers a "job". But as soon as the lies are revealed it becomes clear that they are not heroes saving their country but nothing more than paid assassins. Moreover, the producer of the game is keeping many more of the same CDs, so many more "heroes" like themselves could also be produced. Now the gamers have to find the CDs and either destroy them or create an army of gamers and rule over all. The team becomes divided into two, each pitted against the other

Genres

Action

Science Fiction

Production Companies

IVAN Production Center

Hooked on the Game Trailers

Cast

Vampire

Sergey Chirkov

Doc

Pavel Priluchnyy

Lena

Agniya Ditkovskite

Boris Sergeevich

Viktor Verzhbitskiy

Sergei Zaritsyn

Igor Sklyar

Pokrovsky

Mikhail Gorevoy

Rita

Marina Petrenko

Mosquito

Evgeniy Kharlanov

Long

Tikhon Zhiznevsky

Yan

Nodar Siradze

Max

Aleksey Bardukov

Lebedev

Boris Tenin

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