Movie/TV tie-ins
I know Ocean used to get a lot of flak for buying licenses and then pumping out generic crap of the worst kind (Transformers, Knight Rider, Highlander et all). Even the better efforts (Cobra springs to mind) had little to do with the copy. However, towards the end, I think the Ocean movie tie-ins were some of the best things that came out for the Spectrum. Games like Batman the Movie, Robocop and the Untouchables are in my top ten. So here's the question I'm taking a long time to getting around to. What current or recent films do you think would have been ripe for a Spectrum game and which licenses do you imagine they would have made an utter horlicks of?
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1: batman begins - possibly issometric or maybe a side scroller
2: transformers - this would be a good one
3: star wars - loads to do with these.
hang on, its all been done before. :)
hollywood is cak, nothing is new, if you want to play a game of modern film, you'll most likely find its been done 20 some years ago.
late 80's and early 90's had the best films. and no one has beaten ocean yet for movie tie in's imo.
I'd love someone to do a proper Transformers game, the new one is absolutely abysmal as well.
me and my mate were going to make an ace transformer game, but we couldn't decide whether to do it for the speccy or C64. so it never got made
the fact that we didn't own the license and that we didn't know how to program a game had nothing to do with the project being shelved.
ive only played the new one on a DS, it wasn't too bad.
it was literally too bad. the DS shouldn't have 3D games.
The Crow would have made a good Ocean license.
yeah you get to the end and just b4 you are about to finish it, some stunt man shoots you to death.
(bad taste)
Peter Jacksons first movie probably would make a fun game on any format......oh you meant the last comment was in bad taste :D
Dunno why, it made a crap movie!
Independence Day woulda been a good speccy lience
Imagine Basic instinct on the speccy, you could play 'spot the dodgy bits'.
Sliding puzzle for the beaver shot :D
a level (or 2) with surf, another with shooting, and probably one with skydiving!
Oh no boss , you're through . The hitman Joe Pecsi is on his way in!
Nah! Too much random crap to make happen, would one of the bonus levels be eating a pizza as fast as you can before the 2 junky slut crackheads who live in your grotty apartment can get a piece?
Or maybe painting a very large painting of a bull?
I think also an action arcade game of "Sin City" should have been a nice one. There?s also a great advantage to this idea that would made it similar to Ocean?s Robocop, and this is the black and white style of the entire movie.
Greetings.
fair point. I was thinking more along the lines of your character walks around drilling random tramps, and that's basically it...it could be a speccy "banned" game.
I liked the Wii Transformers game.. could work on the Spec in a 2D enviroment
Independence Day - in teh style of R-Type
But then would the ban be lifted 20 years later only to be a massive anti-climax (the scene when he chases the tramp, down the street randomly sticking him with the drill is hilarious though, even if it's cheesy)?
3 years later released by Ricochet 2.99, still crap, still nobody likes it.
Just like the film.
Conan the Barbarian rather than nominate a label, hows about programmed Greg Follis and Roy Carter, with additional moves and speeded up slightly. Then Conan the Destroyer by the same 2, but actually get Paul Murray and Ed Knight on the programming team.
Now you're looking at 2 True Barbarian epics :D
-The Rock (with Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery) - Batman the movie-style.
-Resident Evil - Sabouteur style?
-Fast and the Furious - Chase HQ-style
I could go on and on.
Turbo Esprit style :lol:
Speed: this should be fairly easy to do; change the car in Chase HQ to a bus and add a scrolling BEU section to the end.
for TV, how about Prison Break ... = the Great Escape engine with contemporary graphics?
Lost = Explorer (and I don't know what's happening in either of them)
Necros.
Nah! do it in the style of the Magic Knight games.
ZIGGY THE ZOMBIE DOES NOT WANT TO BE HAPPY!
THE GATLING GUN IS TOO HEAVY FOR YOU!
YOU CANNOT DRINK GADGET X!
Yeah, it was on the Amiga and it was a shite platformer.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
Definitely lends itself to Speccy humour.