See Uwe Boll's game: 1968 Tunnel Rats
by Justin McElroy 
{ Sep 19th 2008 at 9:25AM }
1968 Tunnel Rats is the Panama Canal of entertainment. Why? It's absolutely insane to think that anyone could actually pull it off and, if it does work, it will be a key conduit for international maritime trade. 1968 Tunnel Rats is a game and a movie being developed simultaneously. Oh, and the movie doesn't have a script, it's all improvised (which was a much better idea the first time we heard it in Tropic Thunder.) Let's see, are we forgetting anything? ... Oh, yes. Both are being made by Uwe Boll. Brace yourself: We've got a trailer after the break.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
xGeneral DEATHx @ Sep 19th 2008 9:29AM
Everytime I see that picture, it just makes me...
...turns me into...
..I just...ahhh...
...WARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
GC @ Sep 19th 2008 9:30AM
In the name of all things sacred, when is Uwe going to stop?
Morisato @ Sep 21st 2008 2:48AM
He's actually pretty smart. He cant get any other VG franchise, so he makes his own. Skilled or not, that's ingenuity and persistence I wish I had.
mike_p @ Sep 28th 2008 10:25PM
When he's broke.
T @ Sep 19th 2008 10:09AM
So is this a game based on a movie, or a movie based on a game? Or is it all just based on a bad idea?
Also, just to make sure it gets said: "Uwe Boll making a movie without a script? What's new?"
theturtle363 @ Sep 19th 2008 9:35AM
The game looked pretty bad, but the wording of the trailer was just abysmal
OMGOMG @ Sep 19th 2008 9:39AM
YOU'RE WINNER!
Maverick Saturn @ Sep 19th 2008 9:44AM
So the aim of the game is basically you transforming into a tunnel rat at will?
Duke @ Sep 19th 2008 12:07PM
I agree. Is Uwe ever going to be man enough to learn how to write an interesting sentence? I’m stunned by how poorly that was drafted.
Mal F4cti0n @ Sep 19th 2008 5:30PM
Really? I thought the outdoor environments looked pretty good.
I am sure the writing in the game will be horrible if Uwe is involved. God....the guy must have an extra chromosome or something.
unrelated @ Sep 19th 2008 9:37AM
"Game of the Year!"
-Games on Rails Magazine
Maverick Saturn @ Sep 19th 2008 9:42AM
100/100 - Says the 'Lost Times'
10/10 - Says 'The moon'
5/5 - Says 'Another unknown magazine or newspaper nobody reads'
Hashbrown Hunter @ Sep 19th 2008 11:53AM
"Does it work with the Wii?" - The Today Show
:D
sjenky @ Sep 19th 2008 9:37AM
That doesn't look half bad.. I'm getting quite arroused actually..
J @ Sep 19th 2008 12:57PM
I'm not exactly with you on that, but I have recently gained some respect for Uwe when I recently saw a documentary called "Heckler" that Jamie Kennedy made to deal with his depression and self loathing that he experienced after Son of Mask came out.
In Heckler, they lumped critics and hecklers in the same group and they showed portions of Uwe's boxing matches with several of his critics. He beat the living crap out one so bad that there was footage of him out in front the venue puking in the street and curled up on the sidewalk.
You've got to respect people who stand up for their creations and beliefs to that extent... even when they're wrong.
Shmil (Mr ESC Liberation Front) @ Sep 19th 2008 9:38AM
Its going to be abysmal
Hashbrown Hunter @ Sep 19th 2008 12:04PM
Understatement of the Day Award goes to...
Erluti @ Sep 19th 2008 9:39AM
the part where you are in a tunnel just doesn't even look it could or would ever have the potential for fun.
Maverick Saturn @ Sep 19th 2008 9:40AM
Uwe Baal - The gnome of destruction
That trailer looks like Far Cry 2's evil twin brother.
Hashbrown Hunter @ Sep 19th 2008 12:05PM
It looks like Far Cry 2's evil twin brother just killed himself and came back as a zombie.
jumpshot @ Sep 19th 2008 4:40PM
But somehow never made it out of the ground. And underground zombie, you might say.
Shmil (Mr ESC Liberation Front) @ Sep 19th 2008 9:42AM
Well at least he's not ruining a real game franchise with this. Postal was an affront to cinema. In the Name of the King was just funny though. Jason Stathom fighting the equivalent of putties.
Morisato @ Sep 21st 2008 2:51AM
Wait... you actually watched them?
Nigeria @ Sep 19th 2008 9:49AM
This looks no more inspired than the other dozen FPS coming this winter.
Boll gets treated too harshly. With the material he works with he does a decent job.
Hot$auce_Magik @ Sep 19th 2008 10:24AM
Yeah, but why does he choose the the material he does?
And I think we can agree that some of his stuff, could have turned into a pretty cool flick in the hands of another director.
Justin @ Sep 19th 2008 9:53AM
Ah Uwe Boll, the 1 reason I wish the Nazi still ran Germany. Because lets face it they would have dragged him out back and shot him years ago.
meist3r @ Sep 19th 2008 10:33AM
Unfortunately I think they'd rather given him a camera and let him shoot terrible propaganda movies for them.
Negativecool @ Sep 19th 2008 3:43PM
I didn't expect that point to be paradoxical. In all seriousness there isn't anything funny about execution at the hand of the Nazis....but then again, in all seriousness, there isn't anything funny about Uwe Boll either.
[+] to you.
Fernando Rocker @ Sep 19th 2008 9:58AM
Is it true that he acquired the rights to do a LBP movie?
Or it was just a rumour?
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Sep 19th 2008 10:34AM
I don't know why, but I would fucking see that movie.
Immortal Technique PSN: johnnynumber5 @ Sep 19th 2008 1:08PM
Looks like the LBP jealousy train just made a stop in Fernandoville.
Sack Boy says hello
fred @ Sep 19th 2008 7:11PM
"Looks like the LBP jealousy train just made a stop in Fernandoville."
wut
Morisato @ Sep 21st 2008 2:54AM
Fernando has a villa? Oh wait, it says ville.
Jake11 @ Sep 19th 2008 10:02AM
awesome! yet another shitty vietnam war game!
Jack of No Trades 85 @ Sep 19th 2008 10:04AM
I don't know why, but I had a smile on my face throughout the whole clip lol.
mr nimblewick @ Sep 19th 2008 10:18AM
"Max Strongman thought it was just going to be another tunnel/jungle mission. But then a helicopter crashed, changing the battle forever."
Can you dig it?
xGeneral DEATHx @ Sep 19th 2008 10:41AM
Best trailer intro EVAR.
Peter Szijarto @ Sep 19th 2008 10:23AM
Is it me or do the graphics actually look pretty decent. Nice lighting, explosions, vegetation. Even the player movement wasn't so bad. The title sucks and the subtitles were bad as well. I guess we'll see.
meist3r @ Sep 19th 2008 10:35AM
Well I do have to agree on the lighting but if you look closely you can see that there are literally walls made of vegitation that give you a tunnel feel even in the jungle. And the rest of the game can be as good as it gets when that is the level design, they fail.
Crysis is the de-facto standard for jungle environments (at least until Far Cry 2 comes out) and I personally won't accept less. Especially nothing that will fund this guys company to enable him to make even more crap movies. No thanks.
Mike @ Sep 19th 2008 10:39AM
Yeah the visuals were really not that bad! But the frame rate...it looked totally unplayable! Not to mention the horrendous arm crawling animation.
Nicholas Sulikowski @ Sep 19th 2008 12:28PM
The visuals would've been great if there was some actual movement in them. Seriously everything looked like it was painted there, even the guy's arm barely moved. It's like we're playing MYST.
Hot$auce_Magik @ Sep 19th 2008 10:25AM
What kind of idiots keep funding this guy???
Have any of his movies even been close to a commercial success?
Highcharity @ Sep 19th 2008 10:34AM
In 1968 They would've prepared you to fight in tunnels
They would've prepared you to fight in the jungle.
But...
THEY WOULD HAVE NEVER PREPARED YOU FOR THIS SHITTY GAME!!
Lone Starr @ Sep 19th 2008 12:39PM
Are you mad enough to accept the challenge?
ronald.raygun @ Sep 19th 2008 10:35AM
man the tunnel scenes look awesome i mean all you have to do is run straight forward and shoot, that's action packed my friend.
xGeneral DEATHx @ Sep 19th 2008 10:43AM
That avatar is action packed...what is it with you people?!
Shmil (Mr ESC Liberation Front) @ Sep 19th 2008 12:42PM
Its like the train level in goldeneye but without the RCP-90
x0rn @ Sep 19th 2008 10:45AM
If movies can be direct-to-DVD, can a game be direct-to-bargain-bin?
If so, I might buy this for $7.95. I'll stay on the look-out at Wal-Mart.
Phil @ Sep 19th 2008 10:57AM
Eh. Looks like Yet Another Generic FPS: The Game and The Movie Of The Game.
Wiinterfang @ Sep 19th 2008 11:02AM
I personally though it was going to be worse but it looks nice and the horrible grammar on the trailer was funny.