'Lost', 'Heroes' Videogames Debuted at Comic-Con 30
GameDaily reports that yesterday saw the debut of a trailer for the official Lost videogame. The game is slated for early next year, to coincide with the beginning of the fourth (and newly abbreviated) season of the show. Ubisoft Montreal is developing the game, and has apparently been working closely with the show's production staff. "Players will assume the role of a passenger on the ill-fated Oceanic flight 815 who survives the crash and is stranded on the uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. As the player begins to unravel mysteries of the island, new secrets about your character are revealed. Players will have to understand their character's past mistakes in order to survive and find their way home. The game will incorporate familiar locations and will feature main characters from the show. Gameplay will involve solving puzzles, outsmarting enemies, battling the smoke monster, and overcoming many other challenges to survive the island and ultimately come out alive." Game|Life has some fleeting impressions of the trailer. There are also some scant details of a videogame version of the show Heroes , currently in pre-production by Ubisoft as well.
For anyone interested... (Score:1)
Whatever it is, its particularly intriguing, and there's enough drama and secrecy surrounding it to make its own film.
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Live action Transformers
Poor timing? (Score:2, Funny)
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Since the castaway drama returned to ABC in its new time slot (10 p.m. on Wednesdays) on Feb. 7, viewership has slipped by nearly 20 percent to 11.7 million, and the series is down 12 percent from its season 1 highs. Exec producer Damon Lindelof is blunt about the ratings drop: ''It sucks.''
If they intended to make money on this game, they should have released it at the beginning of the second season, when interest in the series was peaked. Also, many television shows don't follow the 1 year = 1 season formula anymore.
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Re:Poor timing? or poor season? (Score:3, Funny)
In the fifth season all the questions got answered, so I kind of started losing interest, especially after the robot penguin invasion.
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LOST is a story about survival as a group. As Jack says: "We live together, or we die alone." When they put the main characters apart, fans agreed.
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No dino rides? (Score:3, Funny)
Lost game (Score:2)
Yes, actually. The cat does "got my tongue." (Score:2, Funny)
Hayden Pantyderrierre's gonna get naked so fast!
Lost (Score:5, Insightful)
Let me preface this by saying I'm a huge 'Lost' fan. But it's too bad they decided to set the game in the "current" season 1-3 arc. It would have been far more interesting (for me, anyway) to set the game at some time before season 1, so that everything we encounter on the Island is new. I'd love to play a 'Lost' game as someone who came to the Island before season 1, maybe even a DHARMA guy who escaped the Purge, and see events that shaped the Island by the time we reach season 1 of the show.
Lindelof & Cuse say that they have the whole pre-history of the Island already mapped out. I'm sure they won't have enough time in the remaining seasons to cover everything; let us discover some of those mysteries through a game set in the "before season 1" time. Setting it in the "current" time kind of makes it seem flat.
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I have a feeling, though, that the pre-season 1 events will play a large part in the rest of the show, and giving them away now might give away too much.
I think it's going to be really tough to make a game that fans will be happy with and not reveal too much about the show. We'll see how they do.
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Incidentally, they've been doing this a lot with Heroes. Perhaps not IMPORTANT but things that add to the story and are semi-spoilers. I eventually decided to read their graphic novels a week later to help prevent this. Their whole "Heroes 360" thing they've been promoting has been all about adding additional details that aren't exactly necessary but are important in understanding the c
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I still can't believe that Mr. LaShade turned out to be the Cobra.
Should have been an FPS (Score:2)
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This would only be fun if I could be Sylar. (Score:2)
Re:Or better yet, Sylar on Lost (Score:1)
And, to be gender neutral, you should be allowed to be the Cheerleader who is Sylar.
Myst? (Score:1)
We're going to need a hot coffee plugin for Kate.