Plus, if you are a collector, you can collect a lot of bonuses, which keeps you motivated for more playthroughs.

FranUnFine

I feel like a video game that marries the visual style and the Damon-style Bourne to the narrative of the novels would be a winner. The battles with the Jackal would make for some great videogame stuff.

NPlace

and yeah, Matt Damon really is some guy that pretends to be Bourne... he was damn good at it though.

decodergrizzly

And the Warriors is one of my favorite movies too.

Eville1

CAN YOU DIG IT!?

@Eltigro: Cannonball game ftw, although I would prefer a little more realistic approach, like in the Gumball movie (don't know if the American title was Gumball - the main characters drove an AC Cobra and a Ferrari Daytona). For know, there is TDU.

FranUnFine

No i really don't like those movies i'm just making a point.

Cchrist

Eltigro

Also, I can't believe you are all forgetting the most popular game based on a movie ever... Super Mario Brothers... Wasn't it based on that blockbuster with Bob Hoskins, Dennis Hopper, and John Leguizamo... what?... you mean... really?... the game came out before the movie?... huh... well I'll be...

Eltigro

boopadoo

Schoolimangooli the doogie mag goosie!

Karlott

Probably the biggest indicator of these games sucking because they're rushed to meet deadlines happens with stuff like the Fantastic Four and Spiderman games. Ultimate Spiderman was great, if too short. Xmen Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance were great. Yet games with largely the same engines released with movie tie-ins ended up being dreadful ass. And the worst part is you don't NEED a movie license to sell Spider Man or Fantastic Four. Just make the game good, you've already got a great license without the movie tie-in.

Karlott

cybereality

Kenji-sama

GPman

Gunhaver

It's definitely "filmic" - with enjoyable cover-based gunplay reverting to a side-on fighting game style play as soon as you expose yourself and get too close, and swift takedowns using the surrounding scenery (bashing into walls, using items as a weapon) once your opponent is weakened. All the takedowns required was a hit of the red button, but they were pretty satisfying.

This is a game I would have dismissed entirely without a playthrough, especially since I've never seen any of the Bourne films (I know, I know!) but it's now very much on my radar.

playclever

Like some people probably forget, the Bourne movies were originally books, and the movies had a lot of freedom (just read the Bourne Ultimatum and compare it to the movie). So I don't see why this game couldn't have that freedom as well - for example, they should be able to create their own image of Bourne and not have to pay Matt Damon for rights to his likeness (like treeoflife mentioned).

Herc

The difference is intentional (from the article) and yet another positive indicator of how much effort they are going into to create an authentic gaming experience rather than just a movie tie in.

treeoflife

I just looked at wikipedia and found that it was "Quackshot" not Maui Mallard, but I remember playing Maui Mallard later.

ggodo

autob0n

Dits

With that amount of freedom it is much easier to make what you want, then put in names later. Now the goal is to use the movies as a way to get people to buy the games. By tying themselves to the movie they have forced themselves to follow the movies rules and thus limited game play. Nemo can't use the plunger gun in Finding Nemo because there were no devices that propelled plungers in the film.

P.S. If anyone knows the name of the Donald duck game, please tell me, I think it was for the Genesis, and I haven't seen it since it was demoed at a Target 10+ years ago.

ggodo

So, as usually, I'm hesitant to get excited or care about how great they think their game is because it could end up sucking more than Minority Report: The Game.

karasu is my homeboy

IntelSilver

MisterSleep

angrymob

mossberg

Besides, the Riddick devs were kind of lucky that the expectation wasn't very deep. That is, Riddick isn't exactly a multi-dimensional character -- at least not on the surface. And nobody really expected anything more than baritone one-liners and some punching. That's exactly what they got, but the game did it so well that everyone was pleasantly suprised. And because of that, because the core mechanic was so simple (shoot things, punch other things, see in the dark), there was plenty of room for character and plot development, and other cool things like actual dialogue and interesting characters.

I'm a little worried about Bourne, though ... I think the problem is primarily with the cinematic element, and the complexity of Bourne's character and what he's being expected to do. I liked Dragon's Lair, but that was a different time. And the comparison to God of War also isn't necessarily the best one... aside from the button-timing events, the action and fighting in that one was so forgiving that you could make it through the entire game with the same basic combo, and anything other than that was additional "cool" factor thrown in. With Bourne, the game is supposed to be so hyper-realistic and yet somehow interactive, so you get the tradeoff that was mentioned in the article: cinematic-quality action vs. control. Personally, I feel that if you have to make that trade-off, you've got a game that can't really successfully be made.

I think that the only way to make a good Bourne game is to go against canon if necessary, and pick one core game mechanic: sneaking, fighting, shooting, or driving. Don't try to do everything and expect to please everyone.

MisterSleep

Silent Predator

Deltakiral

IntelSilver

Diesel_Power

Dits

ban_hammer

mossberg