Sin City gets sinfully noir in 2009

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jan 14th 2008 at 4:30PM }

It isn't much, but developer Red Mile did tell MCV that its game adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City is expected in early 2009. Beyond that the only other thing we know about the game is that it runs on the Unreal Engine 3, which we know is absolutely thrilling to be aware of. With an early '09 release attached to it now, hopefully we'll start getting some information soon -- a couple screenshots would be nice.

Tags: red-mile, sin-city

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Obie @ Jan 14th 2008 4:40PM

I liked Sin City, but I wonder what the game will play like...though I wouldn't mind choppin some dudes in two as Marv. :)

deaftly @ Jan 14th 2008 5:21PM

Playing as Miho and going ninjashit crazy could actually be pretty awesome

KVN @ Jan 14th 2008 5:24PM

Is the game based off the movie or are they using different sin city stories.

rivaldi22 @ Jan 14th 2008 5:28PM

It'll be interesting either way, but I think it would be interesting for original, Miller-penned stories to come up. It would be a neat way to introduce new plots, like they're doing with Sin City 2, the film.

Slinks @ Jan 14th 2008 6:19PM

Hmm... but how well will the look translate? Will they be doing a normal black-and-white with some colors look, or are we going to see something special like we did with killer7?

rikimaru @ Jan 14th 2008 6:54PM

I hope they come up with some sort of surreal unique cell shading graphic novel look. That would be so dreamy!

ThornedVenom @ Jan 15th 2008 2:31AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7s32XRScQ

From Renaissance, entirely done in motion capture. I think that it'd look like that.

And it's not a Sin City rip off: even though the Sin City movie appeared in 2005 whereas Renaissance came out in 2006, it took 6 years to make the latter.

ThornedVenom @ Jan 15th 2008 2:31AM

Duo @ Jan 14th 2008 7:16PM

Am I the only one who thought this was about Sim City until reading the post?

colin @ Jan 14th 2008 8:35PM

yes.

Kendall B @ Jan 14th 2008 7:27PM

I agree with rivaldi22 when he suggests Miller pen some original stories for the game. It would make great strides toward supporting video games as an art form if it were done well. I think the game itself would be a lot better if it became an extension of the universe rather than a rehash of it.

Course all of this is moot if it ends up being a terrible game. Here's hoping.

hvnlysoldr @ Jan 14th 2008 7:45PM

I rented the movie for my family. After Bruce Willis and the amputation we turned the movie off. There was just something gross that wasn't present in movies like Terminator and RoboCop.

Kendall B @ Jan 14th 2008 7:50PM

That was Mickey Rourke

aka Prof Chaos @ Jan 14th 2008 9:19PM

Well, I don't know how old your kids are, but I don't really think of Sin City as a family movie.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Jan 14th 2008 9:48PM

I'm gonna guess that's sarcasm because if not, my god you failed hard.

hvnlysoldr @ Jan 14th 2008 11:49PM

What misunderstanding? It's not like a teenager couldn't pick a movie for his family to watch.

hvnlysoldr @ Jan 14th 2008 11:50PM

Oh and yes I know the amputation story was separate from Bruce's story.

chispito @ Jan 14th 2008 9:10PM

@hvnlysoldr I know Frank Miller and video games go hand in hand, but I didn't enjoy Sin City or 300.

In the case of Sin City, I became physically ill during the film (not because of the film, but because of dinner beforehand) and left early. I couldn't sympathize with any of the characters in it, and the visual style stopped being interesting after about 15 minutes. I still don't know how it ended and don't really care.