Asteroids: The Movie and Call of Juarez 2: Bound In Blood

(Other ramblings here and here)

Today I'd like to talk about two things that are happening in the game industry.

We've all seen terrible game-to-movie deals. They've all failed. Like the Super Mario Bros. movie where the turtles turned in to small dinosaurs (what the hell?) and then that god awful 2 hour long commercial for Nintendo known as 'The Wizard'. But now the Warner Bros. have gone and done it. They've bought the rights to the world's most boring video game. Asteroids. The main plot line of the game was.......well......there was no real plot line. You just sat there, firing small laser-bullets at a bunch of large rocks coming towards your face. What's the movie going to be about? Neil Armstrong sitting in a little spaceship firing laser-bullets at a bunch of rocks coming towards his face? Warner Bros., if you do happen to read this, I love a lot of your stuff, but you must have been undergoing some sort of brain transplant experiment whilst having this idea. This is going to be worse than Super Mario Bros. jacked up to HD.

Now, Call of Juarez 2: Bound in Blood. I've never played a Call of Juarez game before, probably will download the demo off of Steam later on (might do, might not). But from what I saw in Good Game's review, it looks a lot like Red Dead Revolver. The little scanning thing, the dueling, the whole thing looks a lot like Red Dead Revolver. I can tell that someone was copying from Rockstar. But because I've never played a Call of Juarez game, I can only rightfully say that Red Dead Revolver is the better game.