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Game Over CG Sitcom Debuts, Censored, Gets Machinima

Posted by simoniker on from the not-so-great dept.

Thanks to GamePro for its interview with the creator of UPN's new CG videogame-related sitcom, Game Over, which debuted last night. The interview notes: "For gamers, it's great to see in-jokes and cameos - like when the entire cast of Oddworld shows up in the first episode. But is prime time ready for a gaming 'toon?" Even before debuting, "Game Over has fallen prey to network censors", with dialog and risque CG nudity cut, and reaction to the show is mixed, but to promote it, UPN is giving away an interactive PC game/machinima download in conjunction with Fountainhead Entertainment, so "players are able to use ['Game Over' character Raquel] in interactive and non-interactive ways by employing Machinimation tools" - the download is available via FilePlanet. Update: 03/12 04:10 GMT by S : Reuters are reporting disappointing ratings for the debut episode.

6 of 71 comments (clear)

  1. Pics? by Gr33nNight · · Score: 4, Funny

    risque CG nudity cut..

    Got pics?

  2. Re:Game-related 'toon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    As revenge for reminding me of that, I summon memories of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show with which to smite thee. Do the Mario!

  3. The show has a catch... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can only watch it for 6 months, then you have to upgrade your TV.

    But I hear the show will look twice as good every 1.8 years.

  4. Well there can be only one reason... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    and it's actually a pretty brutal insult.

    It's puritanical beliefs. The body is dirty, not because of hygene or doughnuts, but because people want to "sin". The only difference between the two has got to be that Denis Franz is not sexual in anyway. Nobody, and I mean nobody, not even on the internet, wants to see what he's got going on. In fact he's so not sexual, his naked ass is less sexual than something that doesn't even exist on paper let in a more nubile tactile form. In short the people who would want to have sex with a cartoon vastly out numbers those who'd want to have sex with Denis Franz.

  5. Re:I saw about 8 minutes of this drek... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    pandering to its target audience.

    You expect them to pander to some completely unrelated, non-target audience? :)

  6. Re:I smell a hit. by Adrian+De+Leon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Any show I watch regularly gets canceled.

    So it is you? Stop watching the shows I like!! ;-)

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