Watchmen Game Will Be Canon
In an interview with Eurogamers, Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons has revealed that the material Watchmen: The End is Nigh is based upon is actually canon. As in, they aren't making up a random story to fit the movie, but actually basing it on the work of the creators.
Well, we were really, cos Alan and I have always resisted doing any sort of back-story to the Watchmen graphic novel - at various times it's been suggested that we could do the Comedian's Vietnam War Diaries or Rorshach's journal, which we thought would be a bit dopey. But the precedent is, at the time the original comics came out, Mayfair games did a role-playing game that Alan helped write bits of, and it's completely canon, so this game uses a lot of that less-well known material.
So while Alan Moore isn't involved with the game, technically he one of the writers. Does this mean the game will be good? Hard to say, it moves up a notch on my 'hope' meter. But having been burned by so many terrible film franchise games in the past I still am not expecting much.
Watchmen: The End is Nigh [Eurogamer]
[via: Joystiq]
Sgt. Sausagepants
Posted to on 14 January 2009
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Oh, it's going to suck and you know it. These games always suck. They give the developers like, 6 months to finish the game and the controls suck and then you end up being a punch line on X-Play.