UGO writes: "We recently spoke with the folks at Deadline Games about their latest title, Watchmen: The End is Nigh, a prequel to the comic turned movie, Watchmen. The game's producers, Soren Lund and Andy Abramovici, gave us the rundown on this episodic superhero brawler.
UGO: The Watchmen. You know how revered the comic series is, so what were your thoughts when you were approached to do a Watchmen game?
Soren Lund: Well, obviously, as fans of the graphic novel ourselves, we're really excited to be able to work with these characters, in this universe, that has a lot of depth to it. And also just these really interesting characters that are really three dimensional, and not two dimensional characters I've seen in a lot of other graphic novels and comics. So we were really interested in, really excited about working with these characters, and, obviously, we felt a lot of responsibility for this because we are fans of the comic."
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.
A list of five classic graphic novels that could make outstanding video games, including works by Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Jeph Loeb.
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.
