Who Plays The Watchmen Games ??Watchmen: Justice is Coming iPhone Game
Warner Bros. Digital Distribution today announced Watchmen: Justice is Coming, an online multiplayer game for the iPhone and iPod Touch based on the upcoming film Watchmen, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures, in association with Legendary Pictures. Available from the iTunes App Store this March, Watchmen: Justice is Coming will take iPhone gaming to a new level allowing players to battle in realistic 3D environments and visualize changes to the world in real time.
Watchmen: Justice is Coming is a multiplayer online adventure fighting game developed by Last Legion Games exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The game will use “cloudMMO,” Last Legion's patent pending cloud based multiplayer technology that leverages Amazon.com Web Services allowing players to adventure through the incredible world of Watchmen. Players will experience an ever-changing gaming environment, chat with other players and participate in street battles.
In Watchmen: Justice is Coming, players bring their own unique form of justice to New York City in the 1970s before the film’s central story unfolds. Masked adventuring has been outlawed. During this critical time period, crime is rampant and average citizens must take matters into their own hands to survive. Players create their personal avatar and enter the rain-soaked city of Manhattan. The dark metropolitan world is a vast network of interlocking and overlapping spaces that include: the seedy and saturated neon Red Light District; a run down Financial District and its dark waterfront; the downtown back-alleys of Lower Manhattan; a wide open City Park; and more.
An original story inspired by director Zack Snyder’s big screen version of Watchmen, which is based on the graphic novel illustrated and co-created by Dave Gibbons, Watchmen: Justice is Coming leads players on an immersive adventure inside the depths of the Watchmen universe. Average citizens evolve into fully equipped costumed avengers by completing unique challenges, exploring the universe and battling enemies.
Watchmen fans can visit www.watchmenjusticeiscoming.com for updates on the game and to read Last Legion’s blog.
Watchmen The End is Nigh is on the Xbox LIVE
Scour alleys and rooftops as Rorschach or Nite Owl, and brutally fight off up to 20 enemies simultaneously – all before the action heroes make it onto the big screen. Maximize your efforts with friends in split screen co-op multiplayer competition, or tackle the crime and terror solo in this week’s six- chapter game.
Published by WB Games and developed by Deadline Games, “Watchmen: The End Is Nigh” will be available for 1600 Microsoft Points worldwide, excluding Asia, Japan and Portugal. The game is rated M for Mature by the ESRB.
The End is Nigh Review
March 4, 2009 - Who watches the Watchmen franchise?
Well, whoever it is, they really dropped the ball with Watchmen: The End is Nigh. Based on Alan Moore's classic graphic novel, The End is Nigh provides backstory for both the Watchmen comic book and movie. It follows the adventures of Nite Owl and Rorschach, exploring the partnership mentioned in the comics. And it pretty much defiles everything fans hold sacred about Alan Moore's work. Yes, this is a Watchmen fan's worst nightmare.
Watchmen, the comic book, is a deconstruction of the superhero genre. At the time of its release, there had been nothing like it in the world of funny books. It changed the way comics were approached both by fans and creators. Watchmen, the game, is the opposite. It's not a deconstruction of the street brawler or something new that makes us view downloadable games in a different way. It's a boring, uninspired button masher; a poor man's Streets of Rage.
Set ten years before the events of the comic book, you play as either Rorschach or Nite Owl. The choice you make is slightly important, as each has his own fighting style, special power-up and pathways in each chapter. Rorschach is a true brawler, who is skilled at taking on multiple enemies, while Nite Owl is a properly trained combatant who likes to take on enemies one at a time. No matter which you choose, the experience is the same -- you walk forward, beat up people and repeat for two hours.
Combat is standard stuff, with light and heavy attack buttons, the ability to grab enemies and a power-up meter for special moves. Rorschach unleashes his rage and goes apespit for a brief amount of time; Nite Owl charges his kinetic suit to dish out electrical attacks. What separates The End is Night from other brawlers are its unbelievably brutal finishing moves. These moves, particularly bone-crunching with Rorschach, can be performed by pressing the corresponding button that appears above an enemy after they've been softened up. Do this with your bare fists or (in the case of Rorschach) a weapon you've picked up to witness a stylized finisher that brutalizes your enemy.
The only real change comes in Chapter VI, which is a boss battle against Underboss. This is the only boss battle in the game and the only thing that really constitutes fighting someone other than thuggish clones. And the fight with Underboss isn't very interesting.
Watchmen does have one thing going for it. The presentation is top-notch, with overlays and cinematics that feel lifted straight from the comic book. Visually, this is an absolutely gorgeous download with some amazing texture work and good character models. Voice acting is provided by the movie actors and is better than you get from most downloadable games. You look at the exterior package and you just want this game to be awesome. But it's not. It's all style, no substance.
Co-op play doesn't actually add very much to the experience. It's nice to be able to enjoy Watchmen on a couch with a buddy -- as much as one can enjoy this game -- but online play is where it's at these days. Offline only cooperative games are a thing of the past and a $20 downloadable game needs to offer online play.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that this short game -- three hours at best -- has no replay value and costs $20. That's the same as the price of the recently released The Lost and Damned DLC for GTA IV, which comes with a 12-hour campaign and multiplayer. The value isn't there for Watchmen, but then neither is the quality.
Closing Comments
Though the very idea of a Watchmen brawler may sicken some, this could have been a good game. Unfortunately, the design lacked any imagination whatsoever. Add Watchmen: The End is Nigh to the long list of movie-licensed games that aren't any good.
