GRIN, they behind the forthcoming Bionic Commando remake, are also working on a tie-in game for the movie, Wanted in their Barcelona offices. I’ve not seen Wanted: Weapons of Fate getting much coverage, and people might be a little wary after the astonishingly dumb movie. (Of course I enjoyed it, but wow it was dumb). Movie tie-ins are rarely a reason to get excited. But the trailers below might be.
There’s surprisingly little information about it. Shown at E3 there was a flurry of interest, and since then there’s not even been an official website (until someone points out I’m wrong in the comments, at least). However, we get some glimpses of the bullet-bending action here.
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Got ya, thanks for the clarification.
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Sorry! Didn’t realize you were going for sarcasm there. My apologies.
Godfather: The Game was really a surprisingly decent GTA clone. As was the Scarface game – try it, I think you’ll be surprised. Sure, Scarface fails in terms of storytelling and scripted missions, but the drug running and territory takeovers are quite compelling gameplay, and where most GTA-style games render cashflow trivial, it’s the whole game in Scarface – your money buys you legions of awesome things, from assassins and enforcer henchmen, to a driver to bring you any of your personal fleet of armored vehicles (with trunks in back that offer access to your personal armory) to investments in businesses that will grant greater payoffs, etc.
And while I’ve yet to play it, many critics seemed to think the King Kong (Peter Jackson version) videogame was pretty decent.
I saw “Fate” thought “Manos” clicked the link and was disappointed.
It seems kind of odd that they decided to make it a FPS. The LAST thing that movie was about was aiming at things.
It should be lock-on auto-targeting, and the twist would be using the lock-on to curve bullets and maximize damage. It’s not a shooter. It’s a hack and slash with bullets.
Actually, let me clarify. That movie was all about aiming, but in the movie, it was nearly automatic.
harry potter 1 – best. movie game. ever.
FLIPENDO!!
This comments thread makes me ashamed to be a gamer.
Woah. Woah. Has nobody played Toy Story 2 on the PS1?
Ahahaha, wasn’t this the film that had the unparalleled plot device ‘the loom of fate’?! Where an old loom would produce cloth with imperfections, which translated via the medium of binary or some computer gubbins would give the name of a man that must die. So obviously, you do what the oversized weaving machine requests and kill the guy.
And when they didn’t obey it, the guy they should have killed, murdered one of their fathers or something! OH NOES, best do what the sewing machine demands!
I’m just relaying what I’ve heard because I never got to see it.
I’ve taken some flak for my fictional writing before, but now, whenever I’m criticised I think ‘Yeah, well at least I didn’t come up with the fucking LOOM OF FATE’.
The film might be a laugh, but as a narrative device this takes the biscuit and crams it up it’s own arse.
Haven’t seem the film, but the “Loom” of fate type idea worked quite well in the ancient LucasFilm games adventure game called (surprisingly) “Loom”. Although there they never really went into much detail about it. IIRC there was supposed to be a sequel or two that would expand on the storyline, but those never came to fruition.
I think Loom was probably the first all “talkie” adventure game I ever played, back when CD-ROM drives were shiny and new.
Anyway, we now abandon this thread derailment and return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
It looks interesting, we’ll see if does better than the average movie-tie-in-cash-in.
awefull animations.. just awefull
Awful spelling, just awful!
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The Wanted comic was decent IMO, the movie looked so incredibly bad that I never saw it and never intend to. The game looks like it could be okay, though I’m not rushing anywhere cash in hand, I’ll follow its reviews once its out at least.
games based off movies, 2 words. The, and Warriors.