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Platform: NGC, PS2, XB Developer: 5000ft. Publisher: Encore Genre: Action Adventure ETA: Q1 2003
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Daredevil
Hollywood is now in the process of playing Red Light, Green Light with comic book properties – and there is no red light. Already Spiderman is flexing his box office muscles, and other hot comic book adaptations are on the way: The Incredible Hulk, The Watchmen (Yeah!), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Cat Woman, to name but a few. This may or may not be good news for fans of videogames because more comic book movies will surely breed more comic book games. This sounds pretty good if you have managed to miss one simple fact about comic book based videogames over the years – most of them are crap. For every good comic book based videogame we have played, at least four bad ones exist. Luckily, the recent trend is an upswing. The latest batch of Spiderman games rocked, Batman: Vengeance was fun and Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 was simply addictive. Hopefully, Daredevil will take some pages from the books of these games and give us a videogame that makes us feel like we are the superhero.
Encore Software is certainly talking the talk with this single player action-adventure game. They claim that the game will feature an accurate depiction of the world of Matt Michael Murdock—blind lawyer by day, sense-heightened superhero by night. Encore also plans to feature Daredevil’s trusty baton, radar sense and grappling hook as elements of the game play (sounds like it could play a whole lot like Spider-man). On top of featuring Daredevil’s |
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famed features, Encore’s Daredevil game will also feature some of the comic’s most famous villains: Kingpin, Elektra, and Bullseye.
No word yet on whether the game will be voiced by the actors playing the key roles in the movies: Ben Affleck as Daredevil/Matt Murdock (eh, maybe) and Jennifer Garner as Elektra (Yes, Yes, Yes, and a Yippee for good measure). Affleck and Garner seem to be in good hands, by the way, as the film is being directed by Mark Steven Johnson of Grumpy Old Men fame. (Smell that? It’s sarcasm.) |
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Whether or not the game features the voices of any of the big name actors, one set of stars is definitely on board: the guys and gals at House of Moves. If you are not familiar with House of Moves, it is a motion-capture studio that has done work on games like Soldier of Fortune, Rogue Spear, and Knockout Kings. They are even more famous for having handled the motion-capture work for the CG scenes of the films Titanic, The Patriot, and Red Planet. Having those guys on board should make for some solid motion capture work at least.
It’s a long while until Q1 2003, and Armchair Empire will keep an eye out for new info on this game as it becomes available.
- Tolen Dante (blind, toothless video game reviewer by day—blind, toothless videogame player by night)
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