Doom Takes A Shot At Gamers

The Washington Post has a piece discussing the suck that is a movie based on a videogame. From the article: "At the heart of this competitive marriage is this question: How do you successfully turn an interactive experience (playing an Xbox game) into a passive one (watching a movie version of an Xbox game)? For whatever reasons, the recent crop of video game movies -- including 2003's 'House of the Dead' and this year's 'Alone in the Dark,' both helmed by the German director Uwe Boll -- have consistently disappointed gamers. Someone even started a Web site called Uwebollsucks.com. Is it for real? A joke? No one is sure."

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Tron in the same league as the 'Mario Bros'?

[Noodlenose]

The author's swipe at 'Tron' (the movie) was completely unnecessary and stems from being rather ill informed.

Compared to the last ten year's crop of 'game' movies, Tron was new and exciting because:

• It featured a new revolutionary way of telling a story with an unprecedented amount of computer graphics
• It tried to tell a story within the hardware of a computer
• It appealed to the first generation of computer gamers

Unfortunately the author didn't realise that Tron was actually not a 'tie-in', though the later released arcade game was.

It must be tough not to be able to use Google as a research tool.