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Posted on 10.13.05 by A 47 Danger @ 9:05 am
What is all this fuss about The Warriors and why should I be excited about it? Here’s what I understand. Mind you I will be going from my memory, which is coming apart like a 5 year old pair of underpants. But I thought it’d be more fun to state an opinion based on what I think I know. From the way I play, if you will. Get it? Huh? Yeah. It’s the site name! The Warriors is based on a movie. A movie I never saw. Right there, I don’t care. Maybe the movie is good. Maybe it sucks. Don’t ask me. I don’t care. On to the game. It’s about gangs. In New York. There will be missions. There will also be very violent fighting. Each gang will have their own unique costumes. It’s from Rockstar. Am I missing something? Is there something in there that should make me care? Is there something not in there that should make me care? How does this get The Warriors a cover story on GameInformer or Electronic Gaming Monthly or whatever? I do not care about this game. I don’t care about the hype and I don’t care to buy it. Am I being ignorant? I’m slightly more informed than the casual gamer. Doesn’t that send up alarms of some sort? Shouldn’t there be lots of other people out there that feel this way? Am I alone on an island with only a volleyball as a friend? I’m willing to bet there are more people stranded out here with me. Filed under: A 47 Danger and PS2 and Rant and Xbox Comments:
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The hype surrounding The Warriors is based on the movie’s cult status, and the increasing trend of making games out of old movies (Godfather). I believe the hype stems from the “innovation” of tying together two different areas of pop culture that wouldn’t normally be expected (video games and 30 year old films).
You gotta hand it to them, though. Without “The Warriors” as a selling point, it would just be derivative, as Danger pointed out above. It won’t be an awesome game, I can guarantee that. It will just be ok at best. But here we are talking about it, giving it more press, and that means the publisher wins.
Comment by Maxim — October 13, 2005 @ 9:49 am