What are your thoughts on The Darkness [Spoilers] and The Watchmen video games

I recommend The Darkness as highly as I can if you still haven't played it. Starbreeze is top-notch. Starbreeze is from Sweden, isn't that weird? They went overboard on making everything shocking and thus memorable, or the original comic book writer did, but this is a game that made me proud to be a gamer. This game is Adults Only.

I thought the opening New York chapter was horrible until I realized that Starbreeze is in fact top-notch and Swedish (weird). I was trying to decide whether I hated Vinny Barbarino or Antonio Banderas more, while watching To Kill a Mockingbird.

Then you're in a Weird War I trench, and it's simply unforgettable. The comic book artist takes over and all the boring stuff you did suddenly has great significance, even the old ladies you had weird conversations with in the subway.

I don't know how a game can get weirder than playing Vinny Barbarino, spending the first chapter and the cut-scenes going, "Hey, up YOUR nose with a rubber hose," then you're in a World War I trench full of possessed soldiers and looking for a bullet for a gigantic cannon (unforgettable cannon) while like in Eternal Darkness, The Darkness misleads you and is insane. Not to mention the Tourette's Syndrome Darklings. This game makes you feel like you're back in high school, it's just such a weird and Swedish experience, although really this is Adults Only. I never say that, but Weird War I is too disturbing.

The Watchmen is being turned into a video game, the greatest, or one of the greatest comic books, and I wonder what your thoughts are on it being made into a video game. For those who loved comic books and graphic novels, this might be our Citizen Kane. Keep your fingers crossed. It's being developed by a Danish company, isn't that weird?

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1591385/20080723/id_0.jhtml

Finding out that Watchmen, my all time favourite graphic novel (more so than The Dark Knight Returns) is being turned into a button-mashing Beat-Em-Up made me less than happy. Of all the genres to turn a Watchmen game into, that is one of the least appropriate.

The series is so story driven and never really included any massive brawls (the only exceptions being the prison riot and the ending). I always envisioned it as an Adventure game, or an Action/Adventure at a stretch. There's so many different gameplay types that could have been incorporated that to narrow it down to Beat-Em-Up seems ridiculous.

The idea of the game being a prequel or side-story doesn't sit well with me either. Watchmen's story was perfect the way it was and this random Danish team obviously will not have the creative talent of the likes of Alan Moore to be able to expand the story in any meaningful way.

For the Darkness, I loved the voice they used for it. Perfect! I keep trying to do an impression of it when I call my cat or horsie. 'CoMe SmITTOns, EmBracE the DarKneSS, YoU sTupID puPPeeeet!'

My only gripe was how you couldn't get it to rip someones face off other then when you use that creeping power. Should be have melee attacks with them when your close, not juse Demon arm and creeper, but standard bite attacks when people get close. Also people needed to be more freaked out by it.

Finding out that Watchmen, my all time favourite graphic novel (more so than The Dark Knight Returns) is being turned into a button-mashing Beat-Em-Up made me less than happy. Of all the genres to turn a Watchmen game into, that is one of the least appropriate.

The series is so story driven and never really included any massive brawls (the only exceptions being the prison riot and the ending). I always envisioned it as an Adventure game, or an Action/Adventure at a stretch. There's so many different gameplay types that could have been incorporated that to narrow it down to Beat-Em-Up seems ridiculous.

The idea of the game being a prequel or side-story doesn't sit well with me either. Watchmen's story was perfect the way it was and this random Danish team obviously will not have the creative talent of the likes of Alan Moore to be able to expand the story in any meaningful way.

Silent-Hal

Deadline's previous games are Chili Con Carnage and Total Overdose plus the upcoming Faith and a .45. I don't know anything about those.

Warner Video Games got a hundreds of million dollars investment from an oil-rich nation in the Mideast (true story); they've been hiring tiny studios with it: Speed Racer was made by a New Zealand studio similar to Deadline and was so-so. On the other hand, you have to have hope. I never thought someone who looks like Alan Moore could write some of the greatest stories I've ever read.

Don't ever look up Alan Moore on Google Image.

I forgot to add that I enjoyed the comments and that's it's time for me to reread The Watchmen, post 9/11 and George Bush.