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Fight Club Game Perplexes, Amuses

Posted by simoniker on from the first-rule-of-pet-club dept.

Thanks to 1UP for its coverage of Vivendi's announcement of a Fight Club videogame for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. As the title might suggest, this is indeed a "3D fighting game based on David Fincher's film Fight Club", and 1UP notes that "you can see Tyler Durden and Edward Norton's nameless narrator in the first round of screens." Vivendi's official press release plays up the "gritty, visceral world" of the film, itself adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's celebrated book, and insists the title will "portray the brutality of street fighting while encompassing the action and story elements from the movie with intense visuals, untraditional moves, and bare-knuckle destruction."

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  1. *flicker* *flicker* by cuiousyellow · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the game is going to be feature complete, it needs:

    n, b, c *flicker of a spliced pr0n frame*

  2. Where's the huge cock? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure most of the /. crowd is disappointed to find the huge cock not part of the features.

  3. shhh by mrkslntbob · · Score: 5, Funny

    this article is breaking the first two rules of fight club. 1. Do not talk about fight club. 2. Do not talk about fight club.

  4. In other news... by Dr.+Photo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Vivendi also announced a bird hunting game based on To Kill a Mockingbird. Players will choose from a traditional assortment of hunting weapons, including the .22 rifle, rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and the ever-popular flame thrower.

    Vivendi is also planning a baseball game based on The Catcher in the Rye.

    1. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You mean you haven't heard of American McGee's Macbeth?

  5. I am Jack's... by rodbegbie · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am Jack's mild amusement at Vivendi Universal missing the plot altogether.

    Rod.

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    Rod Begbie done this, and he's not
  6. Re:Anti-violence by Andy+Smith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well let's see, we can safely assume that it fits into only ONE of these categories...

    1. It has a message of anti-violence. Players are discouraged from seeing violence as a solution to a problem. Players are encouraged not to fight and are taught that they should just put their fists away and get on with their fellow man.

    2. It's a fighting game with a focus on violence and the violence is intended to be fun.

    Shock revelation time: The developer will make the game that will sell best!

    Call me crazy but I'm guessing that a game that is said to "portray the brutality of street fighting while encompassing the action and story elements from the movie with intense visuals, untraditional moves, and bare-knuckle destruction" will NOT be anti-violence.

  7. You've forgotten the rules. by Dr.+Bent · · Score: 2, Funny

    While the first and second rules of Fight Club are "Don't talk about Fight Club", I believe the 14th rule of Fight Club is:

    Don't make a crap-ass game about Fight Club.

    I see a lot of you have been breaking the rules...

  8. Re:Woah...*checks pants* by Prior+Restraint · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on, where's ... that weight lifter with the bitch tits?

    His name is Robert Paulson.

  9. Re:Anti-violence by bfandreas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yet another great movie turned into another shallow game.
    In other news EA has announced the Citizen Kane Expansion Pack for The Sims.
    Hold your breath for Duke Nukem: Casablanca Revisited.

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    20 minutes into the future