Comments on: Wall-E Demo: Collecting Rubbish?

By: Quater

Quater — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:21:03 +0000

@ Mr. Brand:

Both the AvP FPS games on the PC came out long before the movies. The concept came from the comic books, originally.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:18:44 +0000

The Punisher game was based on the comics, not any movie based on the comics.

By: Mr. Brand

Mr. Brand — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:43:50 +0000

Valve working with Pixar licenses? That would certainly interesting..but you know how the Chinese curse goes.

I still think Alien versus Predator (the first one) is the role model for a perfect movie-based game. Fun in single player, fun with other people, and has headbitey. I dunno how you can work headbitey into a Pixar game, but if you could, I’d give it two more stars. Even in a numeric rating system.

By: MacBeth

MacBeth — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:35:39 +0000

Pixar are the Valve of animation. I’d give teeth and internal organs (possibly even my own) to work for either of them.

Just a shame they couldn’t work together on the game of the movie…

By: Miles

Miles — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:21:07 +0000

And for those of you wondering why anyone gives a shit about Riddick: I’m baffled too, viewers.

By: itsallcrap

itsallcrap — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:31:32 +0000

For those of you watching in black-and-white, 219Mb is roughly 14.9 Peggles

By: Zed

Zed — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:01:42 +0000

Chronicles of Riddick was an interesting case. My friend saw it in theatres, sad it sucked ass, then decided to suffer through it again with me on DVD--and liked it. Apprently the theatrical cut sliced away things that were necessary for the plot to make sense. And, IIRC, Butcher Bay was a semi-prequel to Chronicles. More on topic, I'll add The Punisher to the list of good video game conversions. It wasn't phenomenal, but it was lots'o'fun. Woodchipper for the win.

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:01:00 +0000

Weren’t they supposed to be doing a bigger meaner remake of the original Riddick game? I’d totally play that. It was a linear FPS sure, but apart from a couple of crappy sections, the overall game had much better atmosphere and gameplay than Deus Ex 2 and even offered hints of open ended design in stuff like the prison area. A remake that exploited the better features further (melee, stealth, mechs, atmosphere, graphics, grittyness, hollywood plot) and ditched what simply didn’t work (100% linear mech sections and some crappy bosses) would be well worth a play through or two. Maybe I’d wait for it more eagerly than FEAR’s sequel or a new COD…

By: Tellurian

Tellurian — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:55:38 +0000

Here’s to hoping for more stuff from the Riddickverse.
And of course Wall*E looks great. The movie that is. All Pixar movies were and looked great. Pixar are just… Divine when it comes to entertainment.

By: ysbreker

ysbreker — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:51:09 +0000

@Optimaximal:
Not true. It’s set int he same universe, and was vewry much a tie-in with the movie. in chronological order:

- Escape from butcher bay (the game)
- Pitch black (first Riddick movie)
- Dark fury (animated short movie)
- Chronicles of Riddick (second Riddick movie)

And yes, I liked them all :)

By: The Hammer

The Hammer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:43:06 +0000

Really looking forward to the film too. The concept of little dialogue intrigues me.

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:42:19 +0000

Riddick wasn’t a movie tie-in, rather a game that just happened to be released around the same time as the loosely related (and inferior) movie of the same subject.