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Dark Knight Game: Pandemic Dev? Will It Suck?

by Chad Lakkis on July 23, 2008

I saw the Dark Knight movie a few days ago, and yes, everything you hear (and read) about it is true. It’s an amazing film, and Heath Ledger’s performance is one for the ages. However, as Harvey Dent (Two Face) would tell you himself, there is a flip side to everything, and the flip side here is that few movie based games ever amount to much.

Having had several chats with developer friends of mine who have worked on these types of projects, it is easy to understand why they are often considered failures in the gaming circle — lack of time for proper production. The two are worked on in tandem for the most part, and there’s almost always a rush to get the game out before the movie.

With the Dark Knight movie already in theaters, and no game in sight just yet, we may actually be in store for a “dynamic duo” deserving of the Batman brand.

So how do we know that a movie based game is in the works? It was recently leaked by Gary Oldman, the actor who plays Commissioner Gordon in the film, that a game adaptation is well underway. In his interview with G4TV (shown below) Oldman states:

The video game — I saw a tiny little piece of it. They’re trying to get it, so that when he’s gliding — that it’s a sort of — there’s a feeling in it that you’ve never really felt before. That the game doesn’t stop and start. They’re trying to build it in — to the system. Almost like watching the fim. That it’s a continuous thing.

But, I mean I’m on the roof top. I mean my figure just stands there with the back light. I don’t do anything. I’m really boring. I go “Batman we got to get over there” you know? And he goes “woosh” and dives off the building. I’m Jim Gordon, boring Jim Gordon on the roof.

Well now, “boring Jim Gordon” is not so boring if you put a beautiful dark haired female interviewer in front of him now is he? See for yourself, and read the notes from my call with Pandemic Studios after the jump. Read more…

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