From the God of War to the Maddest of Maxes

by Roly Reyes on March 13, 2008 at 2:39 pm

Mad Max (1979)

Cory Balrog, who left Sony Computer Entertainment during development of God of War 3, has announced that his next project will be an action-adventure game based on the Mad Max franchise.

More specifically, it’ll be a tie-in with the fourth Mad Max movie. Balrog had this to say on the balance between action and drama in videogames during an interview with N’Gai Croal

Games are a way more nascent medium than cinema. We’re watching games evolve as we speak, very dramatically. The balance is going to tip the other way. I go back to the notion of immersion of the audience. Games, being highly interactive, are very immersive with the audience, but there needs to be some experience that the player takes from that. And it’s a very fertile medium to work in if you’re looking towards how you can inform a character.

So what I’m saying is, just as movies are moving towards games, games are going to be moving towards movies, where that balance is going to be less–that sort of balance towards action over character, and any character or story is basically in support of the action sequences.

He obviously knows what he believes in, but the better question is whether or not he can walk his talk. This has more hope than any TV/movie IP tie-in game to stand on its own, as opposed to a cash cow for those familiar with the show/movie (i.e. Lost: Via Domus, Spiderman 3).

Source: Level Up Blog

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