Variety: Ubisoft's Heroes game likely revealed this weekend

by Justin McElroy { Jul 25th 2007 at 8:30AM }

NBC and Ubisoft aren't ready to talk about it yet, but Variety reports that the two are close to closing a deal that would let the French game company turn the sci-fi hit Heroes into a game. Though they're currently mum, there's a little convention in San Diego this weekend, and they might be able to find a few geeks there who would get excited about the news, if they wanted to unveil it there.

Though it may seem like a natural choice for a game version, what with the superpowers and all, we wonder if anyone at Ubisoft has considered the fact that there's very little actual hero-ing on Heroes. It's largely people talking to other people about their powers and only occasionally using them. Don't get us wrong, we love the show. We hope that Ubisoft doesn't try to jam it into an action mold.

That being said, there's the Reservoir Dogs game, which is either a knock against our argument or terrifying, irrefutable proof of it, we're not sure.

Tags: heroes, nbc, ubisoft

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jnas @ Jul 25th 2007 8:39AM

oh god please not Ubisoft...they will crap all over the series.

JodyAnthony @ Jul 25th 2007 9:17AM

anyone with high hopes (or anything other than the lowest of expectations) for this game is a fool.

great fantastic awesome show, but like you said, much of the show is dialog.

comtar @ Jul 25th 2007 9:30AM

I loved the first season of Heroes, but I wouldn't get the game... I hate to say it but so far the only successful video game movie / tv show is Chronicles of Riddick, and THAT wasn't really based off any TV show or movie... it was just Riddick kicking ass in a whole new story.

Same thing goes with the rumored Lost game, I love Lost, wouldn't buy the game... and to be honest the only way a Lost game would work is if you made exactly like Myst. But then no one would buy it, cause then people would say "This is just Myst."

JodyAnthony @ Jul 25th 2007 11:56AM

movies: the lion king and aladdin (genesis/snes)
tv shows: Darkwing Duck and Duck Tales (NES)

other than those, I agree

Chameleon @ Jul 25th 2007 12:12PM

I second lion king, aladdin and duck tales. You're on your own with darkwing = )

(great show though, gotta love launchpad)

Gnome @ Jul 25th 2007 12:53PM

Don't forget Batman (NES), Batman Returns (SNES),

Frankie @ Jul 25th 2007 1:29PM

Some notable TV/Movie games:

The Simpsons Arcade Game (Arcade)
The Goonies II (NES)
Die Hard Trilogy (PS1)
Spider-Man 2 (PS2)

Man...I can't think of anything else off the top of my head...that' sad.

serotoninzero @ Jul 25th 2007 2:07PM

The only way this could be cool is if they took an unknown character or a character from the comics and revolved the story around them and then relate them to the events that happened in season 1 somehow and in the future link that character back into the show like they're doing with the Origins spinoff. It would really be lame if they just took season 1 things and brought it into a game.

s256 @ Jul 25th 2007 2:13PM

I hope they're at least making the graphics incredible.

I won't get it anyway, the goodness is in the dialog.

Almack64 @ Jul 25th 2007 3:40PM

I don't watch much TV (too "busy" playing games) but I was hooked to season 1. However I too can't see how they would make it a good game. The show's defintely more drama than action. Maybe if they make it in the light of a choose your own adventure book and you make decisions for the charcters. I don't know...