Miami Vice, Knight Rider, Slew Of Vivendi Games Revealed

Thanks to GameSpot for its article revealing publisher Davilex will be releasing a game based on '80s TV show Miami Vice for PC, PS2, and Xbox. The game, in development at UK-based Atomic Planet Entertainment, offers "a third-person action game in which players engage in dangerous raids and gunfights in Miami nightclubs and warehouses", and means an official adaptation for an already videogame-influencing TV series. Davilex are also producing a sequel to their Knight Rider game, hopefully a little better-received than the original PC version. Elsewhere, Boomtown has a complete Vivendi release list for 2004, mentioning a number of previously unknown games, including two new Tolkien-licensed games for PC, new titles in the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro series, games based on film properties such as Predator, Chronicles Of Riddick, and Van Helsing, as well as Krusty Demons (either a motorcross game or a title involving everyone's favorite Simpsons clown?)

Speaking of 80's remakes...

[jxa00++]

I am still waiting for an A-Team game. Can you imagine it:

Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

Nonsense

[ReyTFox]

The average age of gamers has steadily risen over time. In the computer world, it's pretty much already reached the demographic average of all computer users(and AFAIK has been since at least the mid-90s, when I first started seeing such discussions after getting Net access): i.e. people in their 30s. This isn't hardly as true for console users, but they've been getting closer with time.

Some Proof [internet.com]

These are statistics from 2003, and it's only to be expected that as the game market grows it will take in a demographic closer to that of the whole population.

Re:Why Such Old Licenses?

[unclethursday]

The fans of those shows are mostly in their 30s.

So? I'll be 30 this year and was a fan of most of these shows.

Considering that people that age grew up playing simple arcade games, I doubt that they're going to be able to handle a 3D title.

Yeah, we all stick to Pong, since it fits our arthritic wrists and fingers, not to mention our brains that can't seem to comprehend 3D games, much nicer than trying to play GTAIII/VC, Zelda: The Wind Waker, Knights of the Old Republic, Half-Life, etc.

Damn, my rhumatoid is flaring up, and my brain is frying from typing this.

Not to mention, I would highly doubt that there's very many people that age playing video games at all.

Yeah, you know how these fancy controllers and all their buttons make us old farts unable to play on them. Back in my day we only needed a joystick, and no buttons!

When you grow a brain, do be sure to let us know.