I wonder what they'll add to warrant not buying the £5 card pack instead. :/

Cool I guess. But I haven't been able to watch the show since they got rid of Eccleston.

Unfortunately, I doubt we'll ever see this in the US ... the DS version is region free, right? I may import that, just to have the game.

"It's licensed drivel really, but sales of this drivel might help determine whether or not we get a real Doctor Who video game somewhere down the line."

That...just...sucks...

I'm not sure a "proper" who game would be a good idea, anyway. Part of the genius of Star Trek and Who's success are brilliance/chutzpah of the protagonists, which either translates into really obscure puzzles (ST 20th Anniversary) or a kind of semi-automated puzzle-solving which leads to not-very-good games (ST:TNG A Final Unity). I'm not sure you could do Doctor Who without a really expansive GTA-style treatment, where everything can be used in some fashion to solve the puzzles. To do otherwise would not be true to the show.

A card game? What? Huh? What a waste of a great IP.

Doctor who?

I pray for the day an adventure Doctor Who game is released.

You've gotta be kidding...

That's gotta be on the list for worst cover art ever.

Card game? That's almost as baffling as PSO Episode 3.

I so hope they release this for the US. Dr. Who is my favorite show on tv. If the DS version is region free I'll be importing it.

........

Yea, I'll pass.

Wow, never even knew they were making a doctor who game, oh I know why, its a lame card game...

@4Degrees:

That's nothing. I haven't been able to watch the show since Tom Baker left.

Wait, it's for ages three and up? Does that mean I can slobber on the controller and throw it against the floor/walls and win the game? Sweet.

I watch the show some before BSG comes on,but I can't imagine playing a game about it.I'm sure people enjoy it or whatever .

Ohh crap! I might want to import at least the DS version of this (stupid card game or not) as I'm a huge fan of the good Doctor.
As per a proper Dr. Who game, I think the only real way to do it would be by allowing the player to only control the companion, and let the Doctor do his own thing. This way the puzzles will remain solvable, while the overall structure of the game can stay complicated.

wow. This will bomb and then the BBC will say, "See? There's no demand for a Doctor Who videogame!" and we'll never get a real Doctor Who game.

..also.. sould they have possibly made the box art any worse?

This looks like the most hilariously low budget game ever. Well, Doctor Who has always had really high levels of camp.

I hope there's never a proper Doctor Who game because it'll probably be the biggest load of fanw**k like the new series complete with burps, farting and other "kewl" stuff. In that game you will not play the Doctor, instead you'll be the sonic screwdriver! After all, who needs the Doctor and his thousand years of experience when a simple Black & Decker tool can do all the work for him!

Signed,

An old Whovian fan (or mysterious plot device. You choose.)

... ;)

No Rose = No Purchase

@natureboy46: @nimagraven:

How is it that an old school fan and a new school fan can, with consecutive posts, manage to raise my ire against both the retrograde and the squeeish members of my community? How?

Needless to say, I think you're both wrong, but I also think that the idea of a Doctor Who game is also pretty damn wrong.

No Piper no Eccleston no way to buy it.

I don't know how I feel about this. Dr. Who is an amazing show! I love most everything about it.

This game will probably be meh at the most.

Wow. That is some tragic boxart right there.

For those not in the know, Top Trumps is a rather popular card game in the UK and Ireland (well at least when I was a kid, its had its ups and down).
It's essentially a guessing game. You buy a themed pack (could be anything from Top Gear, footballers, DC and Marvel Superheroes/Supervillians, Dinosaurs, Dr. Who etc.) and divide it up with the other players. Each person take the card at the top of the deck and one person selects a statistic on their card (statistics depend on the theme) and calls it out. Whoever has the card with the best statistic gets to win everyone else's card and be the one to call the next statistic. Continue until one person has all the cards, the "winner".
It's a rather fun game (if the subject is something informative [e.g. Dinosaurs], it can be educational too), but honestly I'm not sure that its as appealing as an adult. There a lot of luck involved (though educated guessing can be fun) and little to no strategy. Come to think of it, playing with others is probably the games strongest attribute (for when they have a card that has four of the highest statistics and you call the fifth one). So I'm not sure there's a lot we can expect from the video game, except a wide variety of references.

Top Trumps is a non-collectable card game where you have a deck of cards divided amongst all players, not revealed to anyone.

each player draws the top card of their deck, and the player going first declares a statistic, say...Age, and the person with the highest statistic gets everyone's card, then play continues until one player has all the cards.

The game is a very addicting version of War, and has tons of licenses, like the Simpsons, Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, Dr. Who and many others!

I don't know why the game, however, has the top trumps logo on it....that really wouldn't translate well to a video game.

Meh! I don't like Dr Who anymore, I rather watch far superior Sci-Fi such as Battle Star, SG-SG1, Star Trek TNG etc than Dr Who.

OH, god no.....a moment of silence for our fallen franchise.

Tom Baker or bust!

@Geoff900: Haha. Yes, like Star Trek is superior to anything. You must be trying to be ironic.

@Geoff900: You ARE aware the Doctor Who has been on TV a lot longer than any of those shows right? I'd think the longest running Sci-Fi series on TV is a little bit more superior to something like Star Trek (not that I don't love me some ST but Dr. Who is much better)

@Ulquiorra Schiffer: Didn't you hear? It's cool to hate Star Trek.

@liquidcross: I hate it because it's practical. Same reason I hat Paris Hilton and Fall Out Boy.

@Ulquiorra Schiffer: Since when are Paris and FOB practical? ;)

They aren't, but hating them is. It is practical because they suck, as does Star Trek. See my train of thought?

@Prophane33: You ARE aware that while shows like Star Trek and BSG have won the top honor worldwide for broadcast excellence, Doctor Who has not? Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy the Doc from time to time, but elevating a family show above more "serious" scifi that's had a potent impact on culture and technology is laughable.

@liquidcross: Hating them is practical, as is hating Star Trek. See? :)

@Ulquiorra Schiffer:

Discounting Enterprise, and bits of DS9 and Voyager, Star Trek is pretty good.

Back on topic; I'd kill for a redux of the old Commodore 64 Doctor Who sidescrollers.

@Slatz_Grobnik:

whahaha - I'm both an old school and new school fan. I was just messing with the Rose comment.

I was given a deck of Top Trumps as a gift and couldn't really figure out how it was a game.

Still I might pick this up on the DS if I can import it for cheap.

@Lightbunny: I hate to get off topic but I'm just going to end with this, last comment I swear. I've always been a fan of just about anything sci-fi. But Star Trek just doesn't interest me at all. And I've always had a grudge against Star Wars because they ripped off the Dune Books so much, though I still love the classic films. I just recently got into Doctor Who and I find it doesn't have that mystery quality that has made Star trek unappealing to me, which might very well be Trekkies like you guys. :)

A card game? Instead of some kind of epic adventure/RPG? Wow, Eidos.

Oh they just had to use the season with Martha, didn't they? Why did they have to write her as a damn fangirl?

I'm sorry, the only worthwhile Doctor Who game I can imagine is one where The Doctor is not a playable character. Now playing as his companion, that would be good.

I mean, seriously, any game which offers you to play a Time Lord (as in lord of time) is just begging to be heralded as "most nerfed game ever".

The box art looks like a weak-ass wrapper with some standardized Dr. Who artwork used to advertise the most recent Doctor & his assistant.

While it would be interesting to see the gameplay of the game, I doubt that the game will do well outside the UK since Dr. Who has more of a cult following (instead of mainstream) in the US.

Squad-based UNIT FPS, anyone? Anyone?

Haha. I can't believe they made a game.

That's kind of cool, but it sucks because no doubt the game will really, really suck.

Unless you can have Capt. Jack kissing everyone in sight, it's in no way reflective of the show.

@Geoff900: Ugh. Have you actually been watching BSG's fourth season? Utter shite so far. Too much quasi-mystical garbage and not enough of the brilliant, gritty sci-fi eps that made the first & second seasons of the show so memorable. Instead we get lots of Final Five naval gazing, Baltar and his cult of crazies banging on about the One True God and Starbuck painting walls. BORING. If I want to be bored by incomprehensible theology I'll just go to a fucking church!

Who, on the other hand, has been firing on all cylinders pretty much since the show relaunched. The fourth season has been awesome so far. Do yourself a favour and go pick up some DVD sets.

(BTW, SG1 and TNG aren't even on the air anymore.)

There's been a proper Doctor Who game out for a long, long time: Daleks. oooooooh yeeeeeeeeah

A little over-the-top at times, but David Tennant makes for a serious challenge for Tom Baker's crown as "Best Doctor". Hey, K9 even came back for a cameo.