'Lost', 'Heroes' Videogames Debuted at Comic-Con

GameDaily reports that yesterday saw the debut of a trailer for the official Lost videogame. The game is slated for early next year, to coincide with the beginning of the fourth (and newly abbreviated) season of the show. Ubisoft Montreal is developing the game, and has apparently been working closely with the show's production staff. "Players will assume the role of a passenger on the ill-fated Oceanic flight 815 who survives the crash and is stranded on the uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. As the player begins to unravel mysteries of the island, new secrets about your character are revealed. Players will have to understand their character's past mistakes in order to survive and find their way home. The game will incorporate familiar locations and will feature main characters from the show. Gameplay will involve solving puzzles, outsmarting enemies, battling the smoke monster, and overcoming many other challenges to survive the island and ultimately come out alive." Game|Life has some fleeting impressions of the trailer. There are also some scant details of a videogame version of the show Heroes , currently in pre-production by Ubisoft as well.

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For anyone interested...

[Tyrsenus]

J.J. Abrams (creator of Lost) did not reveal the title of his mysterious "Cloverfield" film first previewed during Transformers. He denied it was "Monstrous" though.

Whatever it is, its particularly intriguing, and there's enough drama and secrecy surrounding it to make its own film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield

Re:For anyone interested...

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't it obvious? Cloverfield = Transformers 2. It's the perfect time to debut the tralier to an in production project, right before the 1st film.

Re:For anyone interested...

[Alzheimers]

For the symbolically inclined, the Statue of Liberty's head that goes flying at the end bears a striking resemblance to another cartoon robot.

Live action Transformers ... could this be next?

Poor timing?

[EveryNickIsTaken]

Given the sagging ratings (and overall indifference of the general populace to the show) - wouldn't it have been much more intelligent to produce and release this game a few years ago? (You know - when Lost was actually popular?)

Re:Poor timing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lost is only in its 3rd season, thus making it 3 years old. What do you mean by "a few years ago"?

Re:Poor timing?

[EveryNickIsTaken]

From random EW article:

Since the castaway drama returned to ABC in its new time slot (10 p.m. on Wednesdays) on Feb. 7, viewership has slipped by nearly 20 percent to 11.7 million, and the series is down 12 percent from its season 1 highs. Exec producer Damon Lindelof is blunt about the ratings drop: ''It sucks.'' If they intended to make money on this game, they should have released it at the beginning of the second season, when interest in the series was peaked. Also, many television shows don't follow the 1 year = 1 season formula anymore.

Re:Poor timing?

[El Gigante de Justic]

While the 2nd season and first half the 3rd season caused a ratings drop (mostly due to slow pacing, too much focus on certain characters, etc) the 2nd half of the 3rd season was much improved and the season finale generally got rave reviews. Having a game out next year might not be bad if they continue the 4th season like the second have the 3rd season. What will hurt them is if the game is just total crap, like Enter the Matrix.

Re:Poor timing?

[Alzheimers]

A lot of LOST's poor showing was due to the ginormous mid-season break, and a longer than necessary plotline splitting away from the supporting characters that most people cared about.

LOST is a story about survival as a group. As Jack says: "We live together, or we die alone." When they put the main characters apart, fans agreed.

Re:Poor timing?

[Anonymous Coward]

What second season? Rupert Murdock stole it so it was not shown on broadcast TV in the UK :-(

That's what we have "Heroes" for. But I guess he will steal the second season of that too if people enjoy the show.

Re:Poor timing?

[Bert64]

Bittorrent is your friend.

Obligatory

[Mr_eX9]

I just lost the game!

Re:Obligatory

[Keichann]

Bastard, so did I :( It'd been a good year or so too!

Re:Obligatory

[Robber Tom]

SHIT! I lost the game. Sigh... I never thought I'd see that in Slashdot of all places...

No dino rides?

[HTH NE1]

Players will assume the role of a passenger on the ill-fated Oceanic flight 815 who survives the crash Darn, I was hoping to get to play as a Sleestak, and have on-line multiplayer games of Capture the Pylons.

Lost game

[RealErmine]

Perhaps it is based on the table-top RPG?

Yes, actually. The cat does "got my tongue."

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

> 'Heroes' Videogame

Hayden Pantyderrierre's gonna get naked so fast!

Lost

[Jim Hall]

Let me preface this by saying I'm a huge 'Lost' fan. But it's too bad they decided to set the game in the "current" season 1-3 arc. It would have been far more interesting (for me, anyway) to set the game at some time before season 1, so that everything we encounter on the Island is new. I'd love to play a 'Lost' game as someone who came to the Island before season 1, maybe even a DHARMA guy who escaped the Purge, and see events that shaped the Island by the time we reach season 1 of the show.

Lindelof & Cuse say that they have the whole pre-history of the Island already mapped out. I'm sure they won't have enough time in the remaining seasons to cover everything; let us discover some of those mysteries through a game set in the "before season 1" time. Setting it in the "current" time kind of makes it seem flat.

Re:Lost

[Bluesman]

That's a great idea.

I have a feeling, though, that the pre-season 1 events will play a large part in the rest of the show, and giving them away now might give away too much.

I think it's going to be really tough to make a game that fans will be happy with and not reveal too much about the show. We'll see how they do.

Re:Lost

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on, it's a video game based on a TV show. What do you expect? Out of all the thousands of TV/Movie based games you can count the good ones on one hand.

Re:Lost

[corser]

I think you'd have more than a few pissed off fans if they revealed anything important to the story outside of the show. People who either didn't have the time or patience for the ARG last summer felt that way. While I don't mind extending the world of :ost into different formats, books, games, etc... I do feel that with shows like these, it should be able to stand alone. Any additional media should expand the universe but not be required to make the core story complete.

Re:Lost

[LoverOfJoy]

I think you'd have more than a few pissed off fans if they revealed anything important to the story outside of the show.

Incidentally, they've been doing this a lot with Heroes. Perhaps not IMPORTANT but things that add to the story and are semi-spoilers. I eventually decided to read their graphic novels a week later to help prevent this. Their whole "Heroes 360" thing they've been promoting has been all about adding additional details that aren't exactly necessary but are important in understanding the characters and background in a very meaningful way. They have fake websites, graphic novels, text messaging news, etc. that are all supposed to add to the experience.

Re:Lost

[sesshomaru]

They actually did something like a dry run for the game during Season 3, Nikki and Paolo. (Well, if the game plays as I expect it to.) The two characters had their own arc, discovered their own mysteries, but interacted with the main cast throughout the season (and their focus episode). It had a satisfying conclusion (for me anyway) i hope the games ending will be as cool.

I still can't believe that Mr. LaShade turned out to be the Cobra.

Should have been an FPS

[Nazlfrag]

Nobody would have noticed the complete absence of meaningful dialogue and random plot.

Why?

[theatrecade]

Why do they always take the same craptastic idea and make it a video game. I'm as interested in playing lost the videogame as much as i'm wanting to play Martha Steward: The Jail Years. You know the game where you have to make creative shanks with just common housecell items,oh and don't forget the Jailsheet doily.

The Simple Life: The Videogame

[Anonymous Coward]

This just in. EA studios is working with Paris Hilton to bring to you the exciting video game version of the Simple Life. Play as your favorite broken down billionaire as she runs around the country performing menial tasks. Then when the day is over, you can follow Paris as she gets caught for drinking and driving and gets tossed in the slammer. Fun for the whole family!

ESRB Rating: E for EVERYONE!!!11!!1111!!!!!!

This would only be fun if I could be Sylar.

[darkmeridian]

I would kill to play as Sylar. So I can kill some more Heroes, I guess. The cheerleader annoys me so I hope you are allowed to kill her.

Re:Or better yet, Sylar on Lost

[WillAffleckUW]

Just think, then they won't just have Polar Bears and the Others to worry about ...

And, to be gender neutral, you should be allowed to be the Cheerleader who is Sylar.

Re:Poor timing? or poor season?

[WillAffleckUW]

Hmm, well I found the 3rd season to be spotty at best, but my favorite so far is the 4th season.

In the fifth season all the questions got answered, so I kind of started losing interest, especially after the robot penguin invasion.

Myst?

[fat_mike]

This is Myst with TV characters and yawn...

We're going to need a hot coffee plugin for Kate.