Virat Kohli to feature in mobile game 'Virat Cricket Challenge'

India’s Test Captain, Virat Kohli is all set to feature in a mobile game by leading mobile game developers Nazara Games and Cornerstone Games. The game Publishers announced the game, named, “Virat Cricket Challenge” according to Economic Times.

Kohli will be featuring as a playable character in the game as announced by the developers. Kohli was keenly interested in such an initiative as he himself is an enthusiastic gamer.

Kohli’s character will be in India’s Blue Jersey. The game will be 2D and will aim at giving a real life experience to the end users.

Virat Kohli, who himself is a game lover, said in a statement, “Virat Cricket Challenge is exciting and special. I get to play as me which is fun. At home, I love playing games on the console and while on tour, I enjoy playing games on the mobile during the down time. So when the idea was suggested to me, I got really intrigued. As they say men will be men and we love everything about technology and gaming.”

Kohli is excited about this game as much as his fans would be after hearing this news. It is definite that the game will be a huge hit and will definitely have a huge number of downloads.

It has not been revealed as to which platforms, IOS and Android the game will be releasing on, but looking at the developers past games, it is likely it will be available on both. The release date hasn’t been decided upon yet.

It was quite obvious why Virat was chosen as the character to feature in this game. His growing influence on the game and his massive fan base made it easy for Manish Agarwal, CEO of Nazara games to come up to this decision, who said, “Virat is very popular character among the cricket lovers and he has got a huge fan following, we wish to take this love on to the gaming platform and to millions of Indian gamers. A game on Virat perfectly fits into our Make in India, Made for India portfolio.”

As mentioned by Manish Agarwal, the game will obviously be loved by fans in India, but there is no doubt that the game creates a fan base in international frontiers too, keeping in mind Virat’s popularity. Finally, the Indian fans will have a chance to control their captain, only through a game though.