Video Games Save the Movies
Posted: June 25th, 2009 | Author: bgib | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: E3, game console, indie video games, natal, Play Station, PS3, Wii, X-box 360 |If we’re lucky, there might be a market for hybrid video game-movies:
In the meantime, I see the studios looking for the same kind of licensing windfall that the music industry has enjoyed through titles like Rockband. They could license classic titles and recreate scenes in 3D where the game players act out one of the roles. Sounds ridiculous, but imagine playing a recreation of the bank robbery sequence from the movie “Heat.” You are Robert De Niro, and you’re interacting with a 3D Tom Sizemore and Val Kilmer, and the outcome changes based on your actions and dialog. Or how about playing Batman against Heath Ledger’s Joker?
[...] posted last week about how the movie studios could tap into the video game licensing bonanza that the music industry has enjoyed with the success of Guitar Hero and Rockband. A couple days [...]
[...] posted last week about how the movie studios could tap into the video game licensing bonanza that the music industry has enjoyed with the success of Guitar Hero and Rockband. A couple days [...]