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Miami Vice, Knight Rider, Slew Of Vivendi Games Revealed

Posted by simoniker on from the new-game-new-game-new-game dept.

Thanks to GameSpot for its article revealing publisher Davilex will be releasing a game based on '80s TV show Miami Vice for PC, PS2, and Xbox. The game, in development at UK-based Atomic Planet Entertainment, offers "a third-person action game in which players engage in dangerous raids and gunfights in Miami nightclubs and warehouses", and means an official adaptation for an already videogame-influencing TV series. Davilex are also producing a sequel to their Knight Rider game, hopefully a little better-received than the original PC version. Elsewhere, Boomtown has a complete Vivendi release list for 2004, mentioning a number of previously unknown games, including two new Tolkien-licensed games for PC, new titles in the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro series, games based on film properties such as Predator, Chronicles Of Riddick, and Van Helsing, as well as Krusty Demons (either a motorcross game or a title involving everyone's favorite Simpsons clown?)

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  1. Re:Speaking of 80's remakes... by Your_Mom · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yeah but it will suck when no matter how much ammo you unload into the boss-character and he will never die. Explosions will take place, cars will flip, but he'll keep coming out of them dirtied but relatively OK.

    (For those of you who haven't seen the series, I don't think one 'bad guy' died. EVER. Just injured)

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  2. Re:Licenses, Licenses, Licenses by sofakingl · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just because a game is based on an already existing intellectual property, doesn't mean it won't have originality in it, nor does it mean it won't be any good. Just look at GoldenEye for the N64; it's considered one of the best games for the system.

    Don't get me wrong, I know that a lot of licensed games are quite poorly done, but that doesn't mean that all of them will be that way. It's just a matter of how well the trasition from film to game is done.

  3. Re:Speaking of 80's remakes... by Kris_J · · Score: 2, Informative
    I am still waiting for an A-Team game
    You can download an unreleased prototype here.
  4. Predator != Universal!!! by unclethursday · · Score: 2, Informative

    Predator is 20th Century Fox, not Universal. (C) 2001 - 2002 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. Aliens versus Predator(TM), Fox Interactive and their respective logos are trademarks of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights are property of their respective owners.