Bryan Singer to make a game with Atari [Update 1]
by Nick Doerr 
{ Aug 11th 2006 at 9:00AM }
Bryan Singer -- beloved movie director (of X-Men, X2, and Superman Returns fame... not to mention The Usual Suspects) has recently announced his plans to make a video game, cooperating with Atari. What's the premise? A secret agent hired to protect the president! Don't yawn yet -- the game's hardly in production, if at all. Remember also, Resident Evil 4 had a lame premise at its surface: rescue the president's daughter. But that game turned out all right.Will the game be good, though? It depends. Is Singer able to transfer his ability of making decent to great movies into decent to great games? There aren't quite as many directors who decide to make a game instead of making a movie out of a game. Or making a game from a movie. The best way to put it is probably this: an independent project with knowledge of both the game and movie industry. Bryan Singer may have something good going, but we'll have to wait and see.
[Update: fixed a typo]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jkdoug @ Aug 11th 2006 10:08AM
At least it's not our buddy Uwe Boll. I think Singer has a good chance, but you have to remember that a video game relies primarily on the developers and artists. Can Atari, a primarily old school game house, really make the move to next-gen successfully?
And, because it's really been bugging me over the last several posts, there is no 'a' in 'independent' or 'definite.' Thank you.
ndoerr @ Aug 11th 2006 4:45PM
@jkdoug -- hah! It's hard for me to break the habit of misspelling those words. I guess I got used to MS Word auto-fixing them and never noticed. In fact, I was even told before to watch out for those words. Thanks for bringing it to my attention again. I'll fix 'em up.