Miami Vice, Knight Rider, Slew Of Vivendi Games Revealed

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Miami Vice, Knight Rider, Slew Of Vivendi Games Revealed

Posted by simoniker on Monday January 12, 2004 @11:49AM 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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Speaking of 80's remakes... by jxa00++ · 2004-01-12 11:55 · Score: 3, Insightful

I am still waiting for an A-Team game. Can you imagine it:

Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
1. Re:Speaking of 80's remakes... by Kris_J · 2004-01-12 13:23 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  I am still waiting for an A-Team game
  You can download an unreleased prototype here.
Licenses, Licenses, Licenses by Cosmik · 2004-01-12 12:01 · Score: 3, Interesting

I guess the Video Games Industry is becoming more like Hollywood every day.

Whatever happened to the original idea? */slap forehead* Of course! You can't mass produce games that are only designed to saturate the market in hopes someone will buy a few copies if you have to waste all that valuable time coming up with a half-original idea.

I guess we know now how publishers have planned to cut down on production time without sacrificing Q&A - no original ideas.

Ok, I'm finished. Sorry for that - just a case of Mondayitis.
Yeah, sure by Kurin · 2004-01-12 13:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Here's something that looks GREAT*: http://www.vugames.com/product.do?gamePlatformId=7 87

*horrible
Re:Licenses, Licenses, Licenses by sofakingl · 2004-01-12 13:14 · 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.
Predator != Universal!!! by unclethursday · 2004-01-12 13:25 · 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.
Re:Why Such Old Licenses? by I+Be+Hatin' · 2004-01-12 13:32 · Score: 4, Funny

The fans of those shows are mostly in their 30s. Considering that people that age grew up playing simple arcade games, I doubt that they're going to be able to handle a 3D title.
WTF are you talking about? Exactly what about a 3D title makes you think us dinosaurs can't "handle" it? Shit, some of us were playing 3D games while you were still crapping in your diapers, punk.

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I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
Nonsense by ReyTFox · 2004-01-12 13:33 · Score: 2, Insightful

The average age of gamers has steadily risen over time. In the computer world, it's pretty much already reached the demographic average of all computer users(and AFAIK has been since at least the mid-90s, when I first started seeing such discussions after getting Net access): i.e. people in their 30s. This isn't hardly as true for console users, but they've been getting closer with time.
Some Proof
These are statistics from 2003, and it's only to be expected that as the game market grows it will take in a demographic closer to that of the whole population.
Re:Why Such Old Licenses? by unclethursday · 2004-01-12 13:35 · Score: 3, Insightful

The fans of those shows are mostly in their 30s.
So? I'll be 30 this year and was a fan of most of these shows.
Considering that people that age grew up playing simple arcade games, I doubt that they're going to be able to handle a 3D title.
Yeah, we all stick to Pong, since it fits our arthritic wrists and fingers, not to mention our brains that can't seem to comprehend 3D games, much nicer than trying to play GTAIII/VC, Zelda: The Wind Waker, Knights of the Old Republic, Half-Life, etc.
Damn, my rhumatoid is flaring up, and my brain is frying from typing this.
Not to mention, I would highly doubt that there's very many people that age playing video games at all.
Yeah, you know how these fancy controllers and all their buttons make us old farts unable to play on them. Back in my day we only needed a joystick, and no buttons!
When you grow a brain, do be sure to let us know.
Re:Lator Gator by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-12 15:16 · Score: 2, Funny

Seeing as I don't have a Y chromosome

post pics plz