Decision to bring former download-only title to retail will 'offer extended gameplay to customers'.
Emerging games publisher Warner Interactive has stated that its decision to bring its previously digital-only Watchmen game to retail is all part of its wider plan for the IP – though it does hint that its thinking was influenced by the need to get the title to market alongside the recent cinema hit.
It emerged last week that parts one and two of Warner's Watchmen game are to bundled on disc and sent off to retail shelves – a move that seemed to suggest that the publisher's 'risky experiment', as Warner itself called it, had failed.
Warner Brother's DC Entertainment has been known for putting out (mostly) consistent content for years, and that includes forays into video games. Given that DC focuses a lot more on their solo characters, particularly Batman, Superman and Green Lantern, than Marvel does, its no wonder that DC has had an easier time adapting their IP's to other trans-media proprieties. While Marvel's team movie effort The Avengers has proven wildly successful, DC's Dark Knight trilogy, recent Man of Steel film and the entire animated universe helmed by DC animation veteran Bruce Timm has defined an era of superhero cartoons and direct-to-dvd animated features.
Man, DC Comics hasn't had great luck with games, has it? They had to resort to a few pretty average games to fill out the list.
Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons revealed that he was paid a hefty sum to be a consultant on the critically-panned Watchmen: The End Is Nigh game even though he wasn’t heavily involved. Gibbons also says the game is not canon, and because of that, he was actually fine with liking and disliking parts of the game.
"A brawler? Are you serious? As a game developer you look at the Watchmen movie / graphic novel and think “Hmmm that would totally go good with a fighting game, but since Dr. Manhattan would own everybody lets make it a brawler with Rorschach and Nite Owl!” Screw you Deadline Games!" - FirstDropShow
Well, *as* a brawler, it was decent. And had better graphics than most downloadable games. And don't forget, most games take longer to make than most movies, so movie games are always rushed.
That said... yeah, it wasn't worthy of the source material.
I just hope they don't make it ridiculously expensive. As it is now I refuse to buy blu-ray movies because the new ones are 25-30 a pop, and I'll be honest I'll only watch it once, maybe twice so I'd rather rent the movies.
But if it's in the 30-35 price range, consider this the first BD movie I buy.
There are currently a lot of cheaper good movies and if you havent bought the dark knight on blu-ray then your on something.
it will probably be cheap from the get go. will it have a platinum as well?