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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: MysterD on Monday, June 04, 2007, 01:52:03 PM
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Yup, hit movies 300 and Saw will both be made into actual video games... (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117966193.html?categoryId=20&cs=1)
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Calling either one a "hit" might be stretching it. And... yeah, that's stupid. 300 would make a great action game if you look strictly at the fact that there's a lot of violence, but there's nothing else to add to it. And making a game out of it would destroy any art the comic had, which the movie already sort of did anyway (I liked the movie to a degree, but it doesn't hold up to the comic even a little bit in hindsight). In other words, it's just another period-set action game. At least, that would be the logical guess. You don't base a game on an action movie and make it not an action game.
And Saw? No. There's little they could really do to make it truly unique unless it was a hybrid kind of puzzle game, which it won't be because nobody makes true puzzle games anymore because they know they won't sell... or they could make it a Dungeon Keeper-style affair where you build wicked crap and watch people succumb to it. But... yeah right. It won't be that either.
My guess? Brash Entertainment makes a few games that all suck, they sell enough for them to stay afloat because the world is full of idiots who buy stuff based on the title, and they eventually fade away into nothing and nobody ever hears from them again.
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Calling either one a "hit" might be stretching it.
Both made a lot of money.
Saw has made tons of $ at the box office and on DVD.
300 did well at the box office, if I recall.
I bet it'll do well on DVD, as well.
As for Saw and 300 becoming games, I dunno' if it's a good idea.
Likely, probably not....
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Pretty sure 300 was a hit, wasn't it.
ooh and this sounds like a bad idea all round...
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Pretty sure 300 was a hit, wasn't it.
ooh and this sounds like a bad idea all round...
Money-wise, yeah -- it made over like $240 mill in the US.
On the worldwide scale, it made over $430 million.
That's only at the box office.
This movie ain't been put on DVD yet....
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Despite a lot of movie reviewers calling 300 a "videogame on the big screen", I have to agree with Que that it would make for a shitty game. What do you do with it? You want to play as the Spartans because they are badass and kill a lot, but in the end you know they will eventually die. It seems like it would work best as a small-scale RTS type thing. No resources, its all about formations, terrain advantage, and fighting. The only thing you could do there is wave after wave of enemies until they finally kill all your men. Yeah, lot of fun.
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Despite a lot of movie reviewers calling 300 a "videogame on the big screen", I have to agree with Que that it would make for a shitty game. What do you do with it? You want to play as the Spartans because they are badass and kill a lot, but in the end you know they will eventually die. It seems like it would work best as a small-scale RTS type thing. No resources, its all about formations, terrain advantage, and fighting. The only thing you could do there is wave after wave of enemies until they finally kill all your men. Yeah, lot of fun.
That could be one game mode -- it could be a "how long can The Spartans last for" campaign???
Maybe in another campaign mode, you could play as the Persians, the enemy of The Spartans. Though, you'd probably always easily win! :P That mode could be "How quick can you defeat The Spartans"!
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I vaguely remember a 300 game coinciding with the release of the movie.
I haven't heard about a Saw game though.
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I vaguely remember a 300 game coinciding with the release of the movie.
It was a portable game for some portable system, right???
Was it the PSP maybe??
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There is a spartan wars game out (not sure about the name)... looking at the box I think it was a RTS and had nothing to do with 300.
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Yes, there is a lame 300 game on PSP.
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Just play God of War and Manhunt and that should be enough to satisfy those movie tastes in a video game.
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Just play God of War and Manhunt and that should be enough to satisfy those movie tastes in a video game.
Pyro wins, thread over.
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Saw - The Video Game is going to be published by Steam.
It's likely NOT going to get a retail distribution deal, either. (http://bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=103312)
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Yea the Saw movies aren't huge in terms of gross, but in terms of profit, they are really up there.
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Yea the Saw movies aren't huge in terms of gross, but in terms of profit, they are really up there.
It's really interesting to see this game get a striaght-up Steam only deal.
You'd figure even w/ something w/ the franchise name of Saw plastered on it, you would figure it would somehow find its way to retail outlets -- regardless of how bad, decent, or good the game actually is.