Comments on: Prince Of Persia & Other “Game-to-Movie” Thoughts

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:10:33 +0000

AhA! We are watching Gambit and good recall on Double Dragon there. And yea, we’re all waiting for decent game to movie rendition

By: Gambit

Gambit — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:46:27 +0000

So no one’s posted on this thread for awhile, so I doubt it will even be checked but I need to point out, I can’t believe no one mentioned Double Dragon. That was the first Video Game Movie to actually be done well. and of course Resident Evil, aside from that I haven’t been a fan of any. Prince of Persia had potential, cause I actually enjoyed the story to the Sands of time game as I played it, but from what I have seen so far I don’t think i’m going to be impressed. I’ll give it a chance tho, but only cause I’m a fan of the games.

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:30:21 +0000

Sigh… I can only aspire to be such an experienced critic!

By: DaRar

DaRar — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:10:34 +0000

“Boaz Yakin: Boaz has the most experience, and a few flicks I’ve actually heard of. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, From Dusk Till Dawn 2.”

You mean you’ve never seen Fresh?
A Price Above Rubies?

Ok. Your critical cedibility has just dropped ten-fold.

By: Bruce Darren Acosta

Bruce Darren Acosta — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:31:15 +0000

SOUL CALIBUR AND ONIMUSHA MOVIES.

Soul Calibur movie was going to be directed by Sammo Hung but things did not work out,so there could be some European and Japanese production companies to get the rights to adapt Soul Calibur in the future.

The movie Onimusha has been put on hold so they would give them a chance to rewrite the plot to get rid of the Big Trouble In Little China storyline of the script and rework on the plot to follow the Onimusha Warlords storyline.
Onimusha will be financed by Japanese and French companies plus there will be some Japanese music based on the games to be feature in the film by some Japanese music composers who did the Onimusha games.

There is some talks on Japanese anime going itno live action movies like Akira,Dragonball and Ninja Scroll,Ninja Scroll will be developmed by the US production company Threshold Entertainment of Mortal Kombat movies and TV series.
Ninja Scroll will have the music cover with techno with some Japanese electronic music composed by Ben Watkins and Jonathan Sloate.

Thank you.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:00:28 +0000

Cool, that should make for an interesting change from being the only human survivor, and taking orders by email.

By: 790

790 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:57:04 +0000

You interact with characters around you. There’s also a man that will ask you kindly, to do things.

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:39:35 +0000

I’ll try to remember that. First things first, though, I’ve got to get a computer that can run the game, and I’ll probably play both System Shocks again before then as well.

Which reminds me, does the game use audio logs to fill you in on the story, or some other means?

By: 790

790 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:36:35 +0000

Yeah the second time around you’ll know all the tricks, the Bid Daddys become easy to kill.
(Tip)
Allways take advantage of attacking a Big Daddy by a Vita_chamber.
They take on damage acumilativly, so you wanna keep nailing them with weapons. They eventually turn orange and explode.

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:23:00 +0000

Cool. Knowing me, I’ll eventually try it both ways.

By: 790

790 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:19:31 +0000

FlameStrike, when you play the game (BioShock) you can ether choose to be a hero to the little sisters or harvest them for there ADAM (power).

If you only intend to play the game one time through, (imo) choose to save All of them,,, overall you get more power, achievments and the happy ending.

If you choose to harvest them, the endings different, and you get less achievments.

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:09:02 +0000

I’ve never played BioShock at all, but it’s been called the “spiritual successor” to the System Shock games, of which I am a big fan. Both were made by many of the same people, thus my comment about the team not losing their touch.

By: 790

790 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:05:38 +0000

FlameStrike did you see (play) both endings to Bioshock ?

I’ve heard one of the Studios is producing Bioshock, btw.

By: FlameStrike

FlameStrike — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:50:49 +0000

“BioShock also had a great story.”

Glad to hear that team hasn’t lost their touch. I’ll have to make sure to buy the game one of these days.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:24:46 +0000

Yah, COD4 was about as short as games come, lol.

I was thoroughly unimpressed with Gears of War, and when they said that those are some of the best graphics on the consoles, I had to laugh. The only reason why they THINK the graphics are good is because of the overuse of bump mapping, and bump mapping has been around in PC games for YEARS… And they WAY overdid the bump mapping in that game, even smooth surfaces were bump mapped like the fuselage of the Helicopter. It makes everything look like they are made of stucco for goodness sakes, lol.

By: 790

790 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:59:46 +0000

Well if the stories good I’m there, I personally don’t play online so the story means a little but not a lot.

That’s funny about your friend, I beat Call of Duty 4 in less than 4 days.
It was short but great. The Sniper level was the best also the gunner aircraft was awesome.
It also had the BEST ending I’ve ever played in a game.

BioShock also had a great story.
I guess I do like the stories but the Half Life story didn’t blow me away.

I’m ready for “Gears of War2″. If there’s a story in there I missed it.
Just a bunch of crazy mutated beasts and some fun toys to blow them away with. (Good times)

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:51:07 +0000

LOL, you’re like my friend, he only likes multiplayer since there is only action, no story to sit through. I’m the opposite, I enjoy my games like I enjoy my movies, I love a great story to pull me in. Makes the action more intense too, since I feel personally involved. Especially Half Life 2: Episode 1. In HL2, you see Alyx every now and then, but in HL2:E1, she’s basically your AI sidekick through the entire game, and you actually start caring for her safety. Because even though she’s AI and not real, they programmed her pretty well in E1 and sometimes if you get lost in the story you’re able to forget she’s not real.

But yah, my friend usually hates single player. We have Call of Duty 4, which is a VERY short game, it’s like a 6-10 hour game I think, lol. And he hasn’t beat it yet, and I doubt he ever will.

But he actually did play through all of Half Life 2, Episode 1, and Episode 2. So I guess he’s found one game where he liked the story. You should play Portal in the Orange Box, it’s a puzzle game with a little bit of a story, it’s pretty fun.

By: 790

790 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:48:50 +0000

Yeah funny thing Ken, is that when I’m playing a game, I usually find myself board with the story and just want to get on with the game.
The Cut scenes in HL2 annoyed me because you can’t skip them…
Sometimes when that happens I become even less interested in the story,,,

By: Bruce Simmons

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:41:14 +0000

I would think mass appeal is very critical. Without some form of marketing attraction, a game or movie won’t sell. On either platform.

In the game, the appeal of being the hero up against incredible odds.
In the movie, associating with the character.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:53:57 +0000

Actually 790, if you know the “big picture” story behind Half Life 2, you would take that statement back. That whole martial law “evil draconian leader” stuff is only in the regular Half Life 2, when you get to the Orange Box with Episodes 1 and 2, you start to see that it’s much bigger than that. That guy in Half Life 2 that you defeat at the end is not even anyone “high up” in the scheme of things. He’s just one of the many human leaders/liasons appointed by the alien race behind all of this in charge of just one small city. The entire world has been taken over. They barely scratched the surface with that, Ep. 1 and 2 gives you a slightly deeper look, but I’m sure Episode III will have the crazy conclusion…

If you like the gravity gun, you’ll love the portal gun, and it looks like chances are, the portal gun will be in Episode III… I am going to find new and creative ways of killing people for sure, lol.