Saw..the game

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Strubes

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/21/gdc08-saw-game-to-be-developed-by-zombie/

Brash Entertainment was promoting some of the movie based licenses in their pipeline yesterday and, unsurprisingly, they discussed one of their biggest guns, a game adaptation of the Saw horror series. Brash's co-founder Mitch Davis let slip that the game (reportedly headed for PS3 and Xbox 360) is being developed by Zombie, the studio behind America's Army.

This would be their first now-gen game, but we guess everybody's got to start somewhere. Hopefully all questions will be answered when the game's released in October 2009.
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This isn't a "bash Saw" thread. I just think this is one movie that did NOT need to be made into a game.
 
Yay, a game where you mash buttons to kill people! Another Manhunt! (IMO)

I don't think Saw deserves this kind of treatment. It already has enough abuse. XD
 
GamingMaiden said:
Yay, a game where you mash buttons to kill people! Another Manhunt! (IMO)

I don't think Saw deserves this kind of treatment. It already has enough abuse. XD
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QFT :D There's enough shallow games out there, this is just another on that list. {Watch it turns out to be some super great game :lol}
 
I'm just basing my guess off the fact that movies to games rarely works, and it's developer hasn't worked on anything this-gen yet.
 
Hinesmdc said:
*looks at Ninja Gaiden*

Anyway, I will only rent this game for the story, not for the gameplay, which will definitely suck.
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well at least in ninja gaiden you control a very cool ninja using ninjutsu (and a bouncy assistant XD).

in my opinion i think this game will fail... and i know people will tell me "don't judge it before it comes out" well....how can you make a movie like saw.. a game?
 
Strubes said:
I'm just basing my guess off the fact that movies to games rarely works, and it's developer hasn't worked on anything this-gen yet.
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I am going out on a limb for the sake of argument and say what if, even though the movies were "sub par" at best, the game is a better success? What if the game developer told the screen writer that they did a bad job, and that their own writers are going to fix what the general public deemed as lame? It could happen...
 
I always had a theory that really bad movies make for pretty good games, because a really bad movie usually has a videogame-esque plot that's just an excuse to show lots of action. I remember that Reign of Fire movie was absolutely ridiculous, but the idea of fending off dragons with modern weaponry is a pretty cool one for a videogame.

Even so, I don't see a game based on Saw being particularly good.
 
Hinesmdc said:
*looks at Ninja Gaiden*

Anyway, I will only rent this game for the story, not for the gameplay, which will definitely suck.
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You're so funny Hines. :lol That was cute.
 
stealth toilet said:
I always had a theory that really bad movies make for pretty good games...
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Like the Chronicles of Riddick game.

But the kind of movie that SAW is really doesn't make for a good game. There isn't much room for gameplay in there really.
stealth toilet said:
because a really bad movie usually has a videogame-esque plot that's just an excuse to show lots of action.
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I think you're selling short just how good stories in games can be. Sure many games (like Crackdown for example) have horrible, almost non-existent plots, but there are other games with story lines just as good as, if not better, than the plotlines in most movies.
 
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