Steven Spielberg Wants To Direct Video Games

from the changing-times,-changing-media dept

While we've written in the past of EA's struggles in Hollywood, as they discovered that the marriage of video games and movies wasn't quite the slam dunk they expected, it appears they're not giving up just yet. Not only that, but it sounds like they're realizing that simply trying to make games associated with movies (or, worse, movies based on games) just isn't a reasonable strategy. However, that doesn't mean that Hollywood talent wouldn't be useful for them. So, they've gone and signed up Steven Spielberg to help them create original video games. This isn't about having him take movies and turn them into games, but to create brand new games from scratch. Perhaps even Spielberg is realizing that movies are losing out to video games for many kids.
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  • identicon
    moleman, 14 Oct 2005 @ 4:25am

    Again?

    Didn't he already do this 10 years ago with The Dig?

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      Yes, Again, 14 Oct 2005 @ 5:21am

      Re: Again?

      He also did it with Dreamworks when he started the Medal of Honor series. He made it right after Saving Private Ryan and before Band of Brothers. Not sure if there are any other though.

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    • identicon
      David King, 14 Oct 2005 @ 5:23am

      Re: Again?

      I know Lucas did it in '84.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

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    dorpus, 14 Oct 2005 @ 6:38am

    If he made a game

    Wouldn't it just be about saving holocaust survivors from the bad nazis?

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    • identicon
      Anymouse Cowed, 14 Oct 2005 @ 7:13am

      Re: If he made a game

      There were good nazis?

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    • identicon
      John, 14 Oct 2005 @ 7:44am

      Re: If he made a game

      dorpus, not very clever...He's made ONE film about the holocaust. ONE!

      link to this | view in chronology ]

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        dorpus, 14 Oct 2005 @ 2:02pm

        Re: If he made a game

        Really, so "A Holocaust szemei" (2000), "The Last Days" (1998), "The Lost Children" (1997), and "Survivors of the Holocaust" (1996) were not about the Holocaust? Or I won't comment about his many other movies where holocaust imagery comes into play, like Twilight Zone, Indiana Jones, or War of the Worlds.

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  • identicon
    Craig, 14 Oct 2005 @ 7:27am

    No Subject Given

    I'm not so sure I'd enjoy a game directed by Spielberg. First, you'd be armed with only a walkie talkie. Then, at the end of the game, you'd wind up hugging a family or something.

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    John, 14 Oct 2005 @ 7:41am

    Speaking of Lucas

    I always thought Grim Fandango would have made an excellent movie.

    I don't think the solution to bad video game concepts is to slap a big-time director on it. A bad video-game concept is a bad video-game concept. What the video-game industry needs is a label that isn't afraid to take a few chances, maybe create a video game NOT targeted towards 13 year old boys.

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  • identicon
    Douglas, 14 Oct 2005 @ 9:50am

    No Subject Given

    A good video game is not about it's theme as much as about it's learning curve. If every time you play it you come out feeling like if you had just done X you would have made it this time, then it is a good game; the rest is window dressing. A good adrenalin rush helps too. :-}

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    jeremiah, 14 Oct 2005 @ 12:33pm

    schpeelburg

    In reality, Speilberg's most likely just lending his name to a product. He may be involved at the "yeah, i like that/ no, i don't like that" stage, but I doubt SS is going to be chillin' out with the programmers.

    He's a film director, not a gamer. They are almost diametrically opposed spheres: one is completely passive, the other interactive.

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  • identicon
    acb, 17 Oct 2005 @ 3:21am

    Didn't he do this already?

    Wasn't Steven Spielberg responsible for the Earthworm Jim platform game?

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    chris, 19 Jul 2007 @ 12:30pm

    i dont know what this has to do with anything but.

    i want to see a diablo II movie...

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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