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"Watchmen" prequel confirmed as a vidjagame

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Originally Posted by IGN

The latest issue of EGM finally arrived in our offices today, which means they should be reaching subscribers any day now, and as hinted at at the end of the previous Resident Evil issue, our December mag has a big surprise on the cover: The unveiling of Watchmen: The End Is Nigh. You may recall the mind games and questions EGM editor-in-chief James Mielke, has been playing as of late, what with the blog posts asking readers to identify the next cover of the magazine. The secret behind figuring out the correct cover (which a few of you did) was not to try and discern what the game was based on the posted images, but instead by deciphering based on the way they were posted. Blurred out and mirrored opposite each other, in the manner of a Rorschach blot, the image was a composite Rorschach-style image of the game's star, Rorschach. What's interesting about the Watchmen game (which many purists may view as blasphemy) is the level of care and attention Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment are putting into the game.

Not only is Watchmen: The End Is Nigh a prequel (fleshing out many of the brief flashbacks hinted at in the graphic novel), it's episodic, and it's downloadable. EGM has the full reveal, including over 20 screenshots and interviews with 300 and Watchmen director Zack Snyder, original Watchmen illustrator Dave Gibbons, and veteran comics author/End Is Nigh scripter, (and Alan Moore's original mentor on the Watchmen series) Len Wein. In fact, EGM went all the way out to Copenhagen, Denmark to visit with the development team, Deadline Games (which features an international cast of talent, including one designer who worked on Shenmue, Super Monkey Ball, and F-Zero GX). We also spoke with the game's producer, Soren Lund. The issue not only features everything you need to know about the game, but also insights and secrets to the upcoming movie, straight from the mouth of Zack Snyder himself.

While your first instinct regarding a movie/comic-based licensed game might be a poor one, EGM's James Mielke (a serious Watchmen fan) came away genuinely impressed with the authenticity, treatment, and care Deadline Games is devoting to the prequel. They know they have a huge fanbase to convince, and it shows in their work[...]

Alan Moore's fans suicide am commencing?

Alan Moore is going to kill someone with his teeth when he hears about this.

Though I think that this could be really cool, if done well.

It won't be done well, though. They hardly ever are (I actually can't think of a single licensed game off the top of my head that was done well in recent years...I'm sure there are a few).

Who wants to bet it'll be a monotonous beat 'em up?

...How would this even work? What's the gameplay style going to be? I can't see much that would suit a Watchmen videogame outside of maybe a detective-style game. None of these guys were exactly action heroes save for the ones that were either God, total psychopaths, or megalomaniacs. And as much as I'd enjoy a GTA-style rampage/taking over the world/being a giant blue naked guy who can turn his opponents into tuna sandwiches, I somehow doubt that's the direction they intend to go here.

Actually; I could kind of see this working if they had it follow Hooded Justice. So little was revealed about him that you could potentially go a lot of directions without really violating Watchmen, and he seems like he was more of a hero as opposed to someone who just got into it because it was cool.

They keep touting 'episodic' and 'downloadable', but I have absolutely no idea what it could possibly be about, regardless of who the main character is.

So, yeah, not getting angry or happy yet. But I'm sure it'll default to the former.

since it episodic, i assume it will follow a new watchma every eisode

...The last bastion of comic greatness has fallen.
There is nothing left.

There's always this. It doesn't go away no matter how much someone tries to cash in on it. It doesn't even change though people might write fanfiction in the form of extended flashbacks and publish them in videogame form.

Let's consider the game on its own terms.
Cons:
* The game will begin to be released as early as years before it's actually finished, and they'll try to convince the customers that's a good thing by using the buzz word "episodic".
* It's a movie tie-in game, continuing the tradition of classics such as E.T., Enter the Matrix and the Harry Potter series. You know, games that are classic because they suck on astronomic levels.
* It's completely void of interest to any fans of Watchmen. It has a negative amount of interestingness. I'm not going to play it, I'm not even going to get close to it, precisely because I love the comic.

Pros:
* One out of a thousand people who play it who otherwise wouldn't know about the comic might end up reading it. At a guess.
* That's all I've got, at least as long as they advertise a game without giving away anything about what the game is.

I thought I had heard weeks ago that it would be a cellphone game where you play as Rorschach or Nite-Owl.