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Watchmen Game Revealed
By Pete Haas: 2008-07-23 12:41:08
The cult classic graphic novel Watchmen is coming to the big screen in March and like any super hero movie, it will be accompanied by a video game tie-in. That probably made you shudder, but developer Deadline Games has a plan to avoid the usual crap-fest that results from a game based on a movie.
The constrained development time of tie-in video games is probably what dooms most of them; in order to make sure the game comes out at the same time as the film, developers are forced to cut corners in testing and trim planned features. Rather than rushing out a full Watchmen game to stores on the week of the movie's release, Deadline is breaking up the game into episodes and releasing them over time. Samantha Ryan, Vice President at Warner Bros. Interactive (the publisher), told Variety that "We really feel like we're setting a new bar for what it means to be a downloadable game. It's not an Xbox Live Arcade title where we're recreating "Tetris or a simple fighter. The graphics look as good as any traditional PS3 or 360 game sitting on the shelf at retail." The episodes will be downloadable for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 and the first installment will arrive about the same time as the film. The second episode is expected to arrive at the same time as the DVD, according to Variety. That seems like a long gap in time but I suppose that gives you some idea of the size of the episodes. Only two episodes are planned but Ryan said additional episodes are possible if they do well enough. As with other super hero games, Watchmen is going to be a "brawler". Essentially, you'll control a caped crusader and beat up a lot of people. I was expecting a more cerebral, investigative game given the source material - maybe an adventure game with Rorschach solving crimes - but it's a tie-in and tie-ins exist to generate money. The adventure genre just isn't the draw it used to be.
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July 25th, 2008 at 02:05
This is just plain stupid. Watchmen isn't a brawler. It's a deep analysis of a world plagued by vague concepts of morality and terrible injustice...among other things, of course. No wonder Mr. Moore was so upset that his magnum opus was getting the Hollywood treatment. This, of course, was the inevitable outcome.