video game movies have never, in the history of film, been good. max payne has the potential of not suckatude. but a game that cinematic lends itself to the movie format. however, the same could be said about the resident evil series and we all know how well that panned out. the point of all of this rambling is the the total wtf-iness of the following news regarding the movie adaptation of the sims, care of moviesonline.ca
“The Sims, as you know, you can control your imaginary world, right? And our movie, a young man, a 16 year old kid of a 14 year old kid and his friend get their hands on this thing called the Sims Infinity Pack, right, which kind of this very strange video game store which was there just for that moment, and seemingly wasn’t all that.
But what they realize is that they can scan their world in, because this is the most life like, real Sims game ever. And as they are playing this they are all of a sudden realizing is what they are playing on the game is having an effect on the real world.
So in effect, through the game, they are able to control their world. It’s wish fulfillment, and obviously it turns against them.”
first, that’s an actual quote from the producer. i feel like it was written in crayons, you know, like this:
second, wow. on the top three list of worst games to turn into movies, i’ve got the sims at number one, followed by guitar hero at number two (brett ratner already wants in if that tells you anything), and tetris at number three. actually, i take that back. tetris, in the hands of the right director, say jerry bruckheimer or micheal bay, could be really good.
i don’t know about you, but i’m not voting for some frakkin skin job and the first lady from independence day.
in other news, the chrome beta was released today by the folks at google. in my little experience with it (it’s only windows at the moment, so i run it in parallels both on my mac mini at work and on my macbook) i can say it’s pretty sweet. i’m relatively satisfied with safari (gasp!) but i can see myself switching over when they add native mac support. then fully 90% of my existence will be owned by either apple or google. the remaining 10% belongs to sony and marlboro.
speaking of sony, i played a bit of siren: blood curse this weekend. truly frightening game. it makes me hunger for resident evil 5, and a host of other really exciting upcoming releases, including but not limited to: star wars: the force unleashed, resistance 2, little big planet, rock band 2, silent hill 5, and killzone 2. it’s gonna be a sweet couple of months for gamers, that’s for sure.
today is the day! well, yesterday was the day technically. but i held off so i could drive out to lansing tonight and play it with my best friend joe. as far back as we’ve been friends, going on ten years now, we’ve been playing video games together. i have fond, terrifying memories of playing resident evil: code veronica for dreamcast in his parent’s living room so many years ago. so this weekend, we’re building a fort and playing metal gear til our eyes bleed.
i really don’t care if some people think this game is racist. honestly, in context, it’s not. but whatever. it looks amazing. i just hope it’s not another killzone 2 bait and switch and still looks this good when it comes out next year.
