John Woo Establishes Game Studio With Sega

Thanks to Gamerfeed for pointing out that renowned film-maker John Woo has established a game development studio, Tiger Hill. The studio will work with Sega of America to co-create new game properties that'll hopefully capture some of the stylised action so many games have 'borrowed' from John Woo movies. What kind of chance does a film-maker have of making a difference in videogames, now films are becoming more game-like and games are becoming more film-like?

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A new way?

[Dreetje]

Making games already requires people from different expertises, artists, musicians, plot writers etc. In this mr. Woo will be no different.
However he's an expert in entertainment, and that's what it all really comes down to, right?

The site doesn't show much promising stuff yet. Just a few images.
I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Re:Woo-isms

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

"Two guns"

To me, the most satisfying experience in an arcade is pumping a dollar into Lethal Enforcers and gunning through the game with both guns blazing. I don't know why a company didn't release a game that used two guns for a single player by design. Sure, you don't get twice the quarters from the people who already play these games that way BUT I don't think that many people are playing that way. But anyway, I'm getting off topic here - yeah, two guns at the same time rule. I've heard it described as John Woo-style so I think Sega has the right guy here. Did they release any details about whether this is going to be a company supervising console games or arcade machines? Does anyone still make arcade machines that don't involve dancing?