Pacific Rim reminds us of the type of lazy movie tie-ins publishers used to knock out during the PS2 era, hastily cobbled together and shoved out just in time for the film’s release. The only major difference here is that we’re only being charged £7 rather than £40 for the chance to temporarily extend the film’s buzz. Even so, the price of a cinema ticket is still too much to ask for this shambling brawler.
Last week’s San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) played host to some inspiring new virtual reality (VR) experiences featuring a number of big movie and television franchises. Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim was one such title to be featured as part of a unique VR production, and if the film creator had his way there’d be more yet to come.
Love to see that.
There are also a heap of other cool Japanese robot cartoons from the late 70's early 80's that would be great to experience with VR-tech. They are really the genesis of these Pacific Rim robots.
May not be as popular and even primitive by today's standard but still very effective with great stories.
Daimos - a huge truck that turns into a robot were the idea of a human's physical movement controls the entire robot - ( http://www.youtube.com/watc... ).
There are also others - Voltes V, Mazinger Z etc.
I would welcome another Pacific Rim game, i played it in the PSNow beta and it was pretty fun. Movie was awesome too, i hope another movie comes.
VRFocus - The closer we get to San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) 2014, which opens its doors later today, the more obvious it has become that virtual reality (VR) will play a huge part of the show. 20th Century Fox has already revealed two VR experiences based on its X-Men and Sleepy Hollow franchises that will be shown off at the event, and Warner Bros. has joined in with a VR experience for its upcoming movie Into the Storm. Today sees another studio revealing a VR experience for the event as Legendary Pictures has announced a new VR experience based on 2013′s Pacific Rim.
Legendary pictures is a horrible studio. but I'll take any VR experience so glad to hear it anyways.
Give me PR2 please! It was one of the best Monster Movies of the last few years. Not taking itself too seriously with plenty of Silly and Melodrama while having some really interesting Monster designs. So much better then the new Godzilla from the USA where you hardly see the Monster :).
We're not sure exactly how many people are frothing at the mouth in anticipation of a film tie-in game, but if you were hanging out for a PS3 version of Pacific Rim, you're in luck. Developer Yuke's has confirmed that it's branching out from its Xbox 360-exclusivity and will be appearing on the Sony console by the end of the month.
It doesn't surprise me that this game is getting low scores, but I loved the movie and keep thinking about what a fun game it could potentially be.
You could design your own Jaeger, and if online you could maybe have a friend be the co-pilot, then as you defeat Kaiju you'd unlock options not only for your Jaeger but also a Kaiju you could customize, name, and send into battle against other players. If your Kaiju did well it would also unlock customization options for looks as well as weapons and moves.
It would be a fighting game at heart, but on an epic scale like the boss battles of God of War, with destructible cities as the battleground. The longer the fight takes, the more property damage and civilian deaths would detract from your overall reward. With current tech real cities could be accurately mapped out and represented graphically.
I'm not that into fighting games, but I'd buy that game.