The potential for greatness is about as huge as the potential for catastrophic failure.
There must be an amazing game somewhere in there as there have been amazing books and comics on the subject (Moore's From Hell comes to mind). But if you go at it with the poor man's Hollywood blockbuster approach used for too many video games, you might well end up with something very dumb if not revolting.
See, now since Jack the Ripper was shrouded with ambiguity, this would make for a good historical fiction re-imagining.
But if Visceral makes Jack the Ripper the anti-hero, Assassin's Creed style, then I'm gonna go to the studios, ask the devs to sign a baseball bat for me, then proceed to destroy one of their dev computers.
(On that note, they should probably start working on original IPs. At the rate they're jumping through history, their next game will take place in the Vietnam War.)
For the love of all that is holy I hope the creators plunge themselves into Alan Moore's astonishing graphic novel interpretation of the Ripper case "From Hell" before they set off on this. But given they seemingly didn't actually read the Divine Comedy and clearly only bought the Cliff Notes version I suppose I'm hoping for too much.
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seriously how can you hate on such classics as "why dont we get drunk and screw" #trademark
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no but I smell some crawfish boiling if that helps #trademark
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I can see it now, a mash up of Beer Tapper and Burger Time with the most annoyingly pointless music possibly ever written?
sounds like a winner to me [/sarcasm] #trademark
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I wouldn't mind wasting away at Margaritaville. #trademark
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10/06/09
There must be an amazing game somewhere in there as there have been amazing books and comics on the subject (Moore's From Hell comes to mind). But if you go at it with the poor man's Hollywood blockbuster approach used for too many video games, you might well end up with something very dumb if not revolting.
10/06/09
But if Visceral makes Jack the Ripper the anti-hero, Assassin's Creed style, then I'm gonna go to the studios, ask the devs to sign a baseball bat for me, then proceed to destroy one of their dev computers.
(On that note, they should probably start working on original IPs. At the rate they're jumping through history, their next game will take place in the Vietnam War.)
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