Fight Club Game Perplexes, Amuses

Posted by simoniker on Thursday December 18, 2003 @01:48PM 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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Chuck's View by Quobobo · 2003-12-18 15:59 · Score: 5, Interesting

"No, I'm serious," Chuck deadpans. They [20th Century Fox] just sold the rights to the Fight Club video game."

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah, I'm serious. And ask me if I care."

"It's all assimilated. Everything," Chuck quietly jabs. "Those things demonstrate nihilism. It demonstrates that everything becomes a commodity, that everything is trivialized and destroyed."

"But that's so raw," I say, confused.

Almost playfully, Chuck smiles and says, "No, it's not, because it makes room for more stuff, more cutting-edge visions."

From ChuckPalahniuk.net