Bionic Commando: Rearmed Is Not For The Kiddies
It can be a tough call, when recreating a classic video game experience, as to whether or not to incorporate certain "questionable" aspects from the predecessor. Though the original Bionic Commando was heavily censored for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the final scene in the game somehow slipped into the shipped product where it has forever existed in infamy.
The ratings have just exploded onto the scene for the impending remake, and the producer for Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Ben Judd, has chosen to directly address some of the major risks that the team has waded through:
- North America (ESRB) - M
- Europe (PEGI) - 18+
- Germany - 16
- Australia - M
- Japan - B
We've come this far in recreating the game so we may as well go all the way. Of course, this cuts us out of a larger target audience, which is just one more challenge to making the game profitable.It's a gamble and again, this along with the $10 price tag is not the best business decision. But then, one of the things that made those 2D games so great was their innovation. And innovation is founded upon taking risks. No doubt, when the original team made an infamous dictator as the original bad guy and showed his demise in explosive 8-bit glory, they too were taking some serious risks.
I have to applaud the team for their decision to maintain the environment from the original experience, though I do hope that some of the unfortunate dialog from the original will receive a fresh translation.
Make sure to check out the communicator on the Bionic Commando: Rearmed website for some tasty barbs against the rating agencies.
REARMED - THE RATINGS ARE IN [Bionic Commando Blog]
[via: Destructoid]
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Posted to Video Games on 17 April 2008
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The image above was one of the most unexpected and incredible things I saw as a youngster.
I remember the first time i saw that ending..and thought to myself "totally awesome!"