Why would the marketing team behind Street Fighter IV (commercial seen above) want to release their game as a tie-in with the upcoming Chun-Li focused Street Fighter movie? Didn’t they see the first Street Fighter movie? The new one could be six times better and still be awful enough to drag down game sales. If I were making a video game, given the history of game-to-movie adaptations, I would want to distance myself from the movie as much as possible.
At any rate, if the game and movie are released on the same day like GameDaily reports, IMDb says that puts it on Feb. 27, 2009.
With Spore, we’re looking way outside the game space, such as TV, movies, etc. We’re basically planting the seeds to spread Spore out to a much wider group of people than would ever play a computer game.
Now, I only spent about 45 minutes playing Spore, I haven’t even tried all the sections of the game yet, but I didn’t notice some of the things crucial to a movie like characters or a plot. How do you adapt something that, by design, has user-created characters, sets, societies, stories and even creatures into a static non-interactive TV show? It would be like trying to adapt Tetris.
Though I do like the whole “personalized gaming” idea he presents at the end:
The computer could observe each player and capture a lot of metrics, which could be used to change the game so that it becomes personalised for him — his game becomes a reflection of who he is internally.
Computer gaming would be like having your own Spielberg, and his whole job in life would be to craft a personal entertainment experience just for you.
How’s about just working on that for your next project instead of this whole movie idea? Please?
I’ve always wondered when Hollywood would get into the video game business. I don’t mean licensing per se. Having someone else making a video game based on your intellectual property isn’t exactly jumping into the industry.
What I’m talking about is Hollywood studios using its money and resources to fund video game studios and original games.
There’s a good article on Portfolio.com about this concept, and according to Ben Fritz, Warner Bros. and more specifically Disney are leading the way.
I really like the crux of the article, which is that Hollywood is seeing DVD sales go flat and with a splintered audience, box office receipts aren’t as stellar on the whole. (Sorry, The Dark Knight can’t save Hollywood profits.) Meanwhile, video game sales are booming.
Ben Fritz looks at which studios are going to capitalize on this whole video game thing, and its interesting to read the history of both publishers. I have to say that Warner Bros. purchase of Traveller’s Tales is looking pretty genius right about now.
Meanwhile, Disney does have a good core of studios with Fall Line being the most notable. Unlike Fritz, I’m not too high on some of their original IPs. Spectrobes seems decent. I’m not a fan of their tween games though they seem to sell well. But I do like Ultimate Band for the Nintendo DS. That has a bit of potential but I don’t think you can turn that into a ride.
Don’t tell Scotty, but the first shots of the new Street Fighter film has hit the Web. And I’m already starting to warm to the flick. I’m sure the fact that Kristin Kreuk is starring has a lot to do with that.
The shots from Slashfilm.com shows Ms. Kreuk walking around a marketplace set. Then there are a second set of photos showing a guy with nunchuks in the water. There’s also images of militamen dressed in black. They also have Michael Clarke Duncan as a very angry Balrog.
Capcom had one big announcement at their press conference and it wasn’t a game. Get ready for Lost Planet: The Movie.
If you don’t remember, and I don’t blame you if you don’t, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition the game took place on a snow planet and featured two of my favorite things: Mecha and giant bugs. Like Starship Troopers…the novel, not so much the movie.
Lost Planet will be written by David Hayter of X-Men, X2 and Watchmen fame (and the voice of Solid Snake) and produced by Arad Productions, known for Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men and every other comic book movie you liked.
It almost sounds like they’re coming at it like they would a comic book movie so it might not be as terrible as every other video game movie ever made. They’re shooting for a release in 2011 but that seems optimistic, considering the scale of the project it will probably get pushed back to 2012 at best.
When the Max Payne movie was announced I didn’t know what to think. The game was incredibly cinematic and seemed well-suited to an action movie, but on the other hand the writing and acting were awful and I wouldn’t put it past Hollywood to think that was a good thing and carry it over onto the big screen.
Then they cast Marky Mark.
But this actually looks pretty good. Maybe I’ll actually see a good video game movie in my lifetime. Stranger things have happened.
You choose between Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) or Saul Silver (James Franco) and you go through levels that resemble that game at the center of King of Kong. The arrow keys move your character. The space button is used to jump.
You have to dodge those pineapples and get that strange baggie at the top. Hmm, I wonder what’s in there … . Anyway, this may be a game where a high score really matters.
I image that it wouldn’t look like this, but I find this trailer hilarious. If you don’t know who Steve Wiebe or Billy Mitchell are, you better go to your video store and check this King of Kong out. It’s funny in a nerdy sort of way.
Leonardi DiCaprio is going to be in a video game movie, and wait a minute, it may not suck. How can this be? Variety is reporting that Jack from Titanic is attached to a Nolan Bushnell biopic.
Who is Nolan Bushnell? you say. Oh he’s just a co-founder of Atari. The project itself is dubbed Atari for the time being. It does sound interesting. I mean I’m sure it’s going to be better than anything Uwe Boll has ever made in his life.
