So, Spore got delayed. Bummer. But EA also had some sort-of-kind-of good news to report in its place: Steven Spielberg's upcoming video game now has a loose release date (sometime before April 2008) and a specified console (the Nintendo Wii).
But that's it. No plot. No gameplay details. No explanation of how involved Spielberg will be in the game's production. Spielberg's game deal was first announced in October of 2005, and this is all we're told? Apart from EA Playground and Boogie (which I'm absolutely positive we're all looking forward to), Spielberg's game will be the only Wii-exclusive EA game on the system before the end of the 2008 fiscal year.
So it better damn well be good. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (insert your own joke about the length of the game's title here)wasn't quite as good as it should have been -- trying to search for hidden, wall-mounted torches gets old after a while -- but damn if it wasn't one of the most awesomely cinematic games released in 2005. Hopefully, Spielberg will be able to do the same things Jackson did so well with Kong (namely, inserting an immersive film aesthetic into an interactive game), while avoiding some of Kong's mistakes.
But what do you think it'll be about? How might Spielberg use the Wiimote? Nex had some pretty disturbing ideas of his own which I'll let him reiterate in the comments if he so desires, but what do you think, dear readers? Personally, I'm pretty excited. War of the Worlds aside, Spielberg's a pretty damn imaginative guy, and the Wii seems like the right system for that imagination.
[Via TVG, and the lovingly over-zealous tipster BlindsideDork]
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5:25 PM on 05.09.2007
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that useless fuck hasn't made a decent film in 23 years, great now we gots a new media form for him to trash.
the normally sound good though. but munich, jesus, check out one day in september, or night and fog for schindlers list, or a computer vomiting up renders for minority report.
Really? 1984's Temple of Doom is Spielberg's last great movie? Or even a good movie, for that matter?
Say what you want about Spielberg's current body of work, but the fact that you would put Temple of Doom above even Jurassic Park makes me giggle.
Schindlers List was only 14 years ago or somewhere thereabouts. That was an AMAZING film.
Saving Private Ryan was pretty solid too. I didn't care much for A.I. but Catch Me If You Can and Munich were both pretty good IMO. Minority report got 90+ on rotten tomatoes but I thought it was just OK.
I would be interested to see what he can bring to the table.
This isn't his first game, he was also involved with The Gid.
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The Dig
Jaws (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Always (1989)
Schindler's List (1993)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
and hopefully...
Fourth Installment of the Indiana Jones Adventures (2008)
Interstellar (2009)
I have no idea where the hell our Indy info is, but Spielberg isn't involved with them in roughly the same way Lucas has almost nothing to do with the Star Wars games.
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Point, but he only came up with the story for that -- for whatever this title is, it appears he's taking a much more direct approach to the game's development. He's a pretty big gamer, so he'll very well have input on more than just the story and visuals.
The name of the game: A.I
Also, 3 wii exclusives from EA(at least 1 of which looks positively horrendous) until next april is a pretty goddamn pathetic. I thought they were meant to be throwing their chips in or some shit.
I watch Jurassic Park too much.
"Also, 3 wii exclusives from EA(at least 1 of which looks positively horrendous) until next april is a pretty goddamn pathetic. I thought they were meant to be throwing their chips in or some shit."
I don't know, 3 exclusives (and I think I actually heard it was 4) between now and 08 with one of them being a Spielburg love child? Thats not bad really. Admittedly the exclusives they are bringing are not that exciting but as far as them throwing their chips in, I think that refers to the fact that they bought an entire studio to do Wii development and they have been doing more Wii specific work lately, with games like Madden, Blackhand edition and others taking good advantage of the controller. We're not seeing their best effort but the list of EA titles is growing rapidly and several franchises that had faded from gamecube are back in rotation or rumored to be back for the Wii.
I will try to calm down!
What a joke. This game is going to suck, no matter how good it is.
Somehow I don't think Mr. Spielburg will be hurt if you don't like his games.