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Jaws Snapped Up By Ecco Developers
Thanks to Yahoo for reprinting a Majesco press release announcing a videogame version of Universal Pictures' and Steven Spielberg's Jaws, apparently "scheduled for release in 2005 for the PlayStation 2... Xbox [and PC]." The title, in which "players assume the role of a... shark driven to a predacious frenzy by the sonic emanations of underwater oil drilling equipment", is being "developed by Appaloosa", the developers of the Ecco The Dolphin series for Genesis and, latterly, for Dreamcast/PS2. Elsewhere, QT3 messageboard readers point out Sole Predator, likely the pre-Jaws licensed version of the game, in which "players assume the role of the most feared predator on earth, the Great White Shark."
I give up. You'd swear that Steven Spudberg wrote the damn thing, no F*(%&#( credit to the actual author as usual. I give up.
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The game won't be out until 2005, but the first review is already up here
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
I played Ecco the Dolphin on the GBA from the Sega collection. I totally couldn't figure it out. I bought it used so no instruction manual. I really tried hard to understand it but all I did was swim around with no objective.
I guess with a Jaws version the objective will be clearly to eat people.
Jaws vs. Ecco.....this time....it's personal!
to the NES version.
This game will suck so bad, you will be able to use your game machine to clean the dirt off the floors
Why are they going back and giving Jaws a motive? Back in the day he was just a huge shark with a bad attitude and he just ate people. He was a movie monster. Now, all of a sudden, the evils of technology are the cause of all of the problems of this poor, misunderstood creature. Jaws doesn't need a compressed air cannister in his mouth, he just needs a hug!
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driven to a predacious frenzy by the sonic emanations of underwater oil drilling
Nothing like a little eco-nazi brainwashing for a game plot. That is great!
BC
In Majesco's Jaws, players assume the role of a Great White shark driven to a predacious frenzy by the sonic emanations of underwater oil drilling equipment.
Why doesn't this surprise me? Wait, I have an idea. Why not "Majesco's Cockroach"? We've killed billions more of them, and we've done it intentionally!
But God demonstrates his love for us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us - (Romans 5:8)
The final boss will, of course, be Boat.
The game will be unbeatable, and they will not even bother putting in an ending.
Why? Simple: You can't beat Boat.
the best charachter to play would be the fisherman, with not-included hard liquor to further enahnce the game play. The only draw back is that if you beat jaws, you'll die of liver or lung cancer in a few years.
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Yay, the company that made not one, but two awful renditions of Contra. On the other hand, they did create Kolibri, the best hummingbird-based shooter in the whole 32X library...
that the 2004 spin on things has a certain charm.
A Jaws game where you play the shark? I like it.
I can't be the only one who thought the Nintendo version was awesome?
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Let's take a poll. I, for one, live about 1500 miles from any ocean and feel much more fearful of, say, pumas. Heck, weasels are pretty nasty, I'm probably 100 times as likely to stay up at night unable to sleep for fear a weasel will slink from under my bed than that a shark will ambush me in the tub.
"players assume the role of the most feared predator on earth, the Great White Shark."
The Great White Shark isn't even the most feared predator in the oceanic food chain. The Orca is the ocean's top predator. Orcas have been know to kill Great White Sharks.
Chew: You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
Roy: Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes.
Jaws the game is about a shark trying to win by chasing boats, people etc.
It's like making a game called Jurassic Park in which you play the T-Rex. For a movie adaptation this is something of a stretch.
Does anyone know of a good city/empire building resource management game? More like the old Ceasar Ancient Rome and the Pharoh Ancient Egypt Sierra games from the late 90's.
I have this urge to play something more city detailed than Civ II (or the brain-dead Civ III) but don't know what's good anymore. And I don't want to dig out my old floppies of Pharoh with it's annoying bugs and glitches (pyramids getting corrupted, random crashes)....
Any advice?
Posting as AC cause this is off topic but I really would like to know what's good.
That's sort of like Rockstar making a video-game adaptation of Chutes and Ladders. Or Acclaim making a game that doesn't suck.
Rob
Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down to the pond and chasing bluegills and tommycocks. This shark, swallow you whole. No shakin', no tenderizin', down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.
Now a game that REALLY bites...
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
Land Shark
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It wasn't Jurassic Park but The Sequel
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In god mode, the shark can have a laser attached to its head!
We're gonna need a bigger marketing department.
Does anybody remember the Ecco the Dolphin TV advertisement, from the early 90s? I think it featured a sea captain (sort of like Jacques Cousteau) reminiscing about Ecco. For whatever reason, it was one of the most memorable TV ads I'd ever seen.
Anyone remember details about it? I was trying to write it up for the wikipedia node on Ecco, but couldn't recall anything solid.