See Uwe Boll's game: 1968 Tunnel Rats

by Justin McElroy on Sep 19th 2008 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.

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Tags: 1968-tunnel-rats, PC, uwe-boll, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (72)

Everytime I see that picture, it just makes me...

...turns me into...

..I just...ahhh...

...WARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

In the name of all things sacred, when is Uwe going to stop?

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.

When he's broke.

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?"

The game looked pretty bad, but the wording of the trailer was just abysmal

YOU'RE WINNER!

So the aim of the game is basically you transforming into a tunnel rat at will?

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.

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.

"Game of the Year!"
-Games on Rails Magazine

100/100 - Says the 'Lost Times'
10/10 - Says 'The moon'

5/5 - Says 'Another unknown magazine or newspaper nobody reads'

"Does it work with the Wii?" - The Today Show

:D

That doesn't look half bad.. I'm getting quite arroused actually..

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.

Its going to be abysmal

Understatement of the Day Award goes to...

the part where you are in a tunnel just doesn't even look it could or would ever have the potential for fun.

Uwe Baal - The gnome of destruction

That trailer looks like Far Cry 2's evil twin brother.

It looks like Far Cry 2's evil twin brother just killed himself and came back as a zombie.

But somehow never made it out of the ground. And underground zombie, you might say.

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.

Wait... you actually watched them?

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.

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.

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.

Unfortunately I think they'd rather given him a camera and let him shoot terrible propaganda movies for them.

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.

Is it true that he acquired the rights to do a LBP movie?

Or it was just a rumour?

I don't know why, but I would fucking see that movie.

Looks like the LBP jealousy train just made a stop in Fernandoville.

Sack Boy says hello

"Looks like the LBP jealousy train just made a stop in Fernandoville."

wut

Fernando has a villa? Oh wait, it says ville.

awesome! yet another shitty vietnam war game!

I don't know why, but I had a smile on my face throughout the whole clip lol.

"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?

Best trailer intro EVAR.

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.

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.

Yeah the visuals were really not that bad! But the frame rate...it looked totally unplayable! Not to mention the horrendous arm crawling animation.

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.

What kind of idiots keep funding this guy???

Have any of his movies even been close to a commercial success?

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!!

Are you mad enough to accept the challenge?

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.

That avatar is action packed...what is it with you people?!

Its like the train level in goldeneye but without the RCP-90

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.

Eh. Looks like Yet Another Generic FPS: The Game and The Movie Of The Game.

I personally though it was going to be worse but it looks nice and the horrible grammar on the trailer was funny.

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