Watchmen: The End Is Nigh casts you as either Nite Owl II or the masked vigilante Rohrschach, beating up thugs around New York City. In addition to featuring terrific level design inspired by the film, it also has rock solid audio, thanks to impressive voice acting from the film's cast and upbeat background music. Even the slightly derivative beat-em-up gameplay works, thanks to numerous combos and no shortage of thugs. However, the Xbox Live downloadable only End Is Nigh eventually fails thanks to an awful $20 price point and the lack of online co-op; you can play locally alongside a friend. There are Achievements and Trophies to unlock, but more levels and characters (no Silk Spectre II) would've made this something to really watch.
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.
