Not getting up: Ecko's Macbeth game dispatched
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Dec 1st 2009 at 8:30PM }
Sadly, we're left to contemplate what could have been from a single, proposed gameplay mechanic: "cutting people's heads off." Surely, Shakespeare's inclusion of only one, climactic beheading -- and "off stage" at that -- in the accepted original Macbeth was merely a limitation of the special effects of the playwright's day. Just imagine how much more epic Renaissance works could be as video games ... Oh, right.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dr. Orpheus @ Dec 1st 2009 8:33PM
There is a god, and he's a theater fan.
Pika132 @ Dec 1st 2009 8:47PM
Now, if it was a fighting game based on Les Miserables, that I could understand.
Reuben @ Dec 1st 2009 8:57PM
A Grand Theft Auto title, set in the universe of Cabaret.
Or, if that's not your thing...
Threepenny Opera, as re-envisioned by Square Enix.
Fullmetal Salchemist @ Dec 1st 2009 9:46PM
Hopefully the cancellation of this game doesn't mean the fate of the new Metroidvania King Lear is in jeopardy. The "Have More Than Thou Showest" mode is supposed to be pretty difficult.
Filthy Assistant @ Dec 1st 2009 10:03PM
There is a fighting game based on Les Miserables.
http://takase.syuriken.jp/ArmJoe.htm
Unless you were being facetious.
Pika132 @ Dec 2nd 2009 4:03PM
I was, and I figured Arm Joe was common knowledge
Reuben @ Dec 1st 2009 8:42PM
Wait, he doesn't want to drop details on a game that will never be?
"I don't want to give it away," he says.
Oh, you poor fool.
RobinEivets (Soon to be Crimsic) @ Dec 1st 2009 8:52PM
Would have been banned in Australia anyways...
whylekat @ Dec 1st 2009 8:55PM
Omg thank goodness! What a terrible idea!
ChuckBartowski (ATDF Technical Consultant) @ Dec 1st 2009 9:14PM
The exact day i start reading macbeth, this happens.....wow.
That Guy @ Dec 1st 2009 9:27PM
I would play a Hamlet game. It's probably my favorite of Shakespeare's works, and it could almost actually work in a sort of Max Payne way...
time @ Dec 1st 2009 10:07PM
eh it would fail. you know, that curse and all
WREturns [Planeteer I Power of The Final Countdown] Personal Shopper of the ATDF @ Dec 2nd 2009 12:22AM
This guy is the worst kind of idiot; the kind that thinks he's deep.
Dude who knows too much about the humanities @ Dec 2nd 2009 1:17AM
Excuse me, um, The Divine Comedy is not considered a Renaissance work but a Medieval one.
Sorry for being a such a nerd about it, but I just couldn't let it go… ('-_-)
James Ransom-Wiley @ Dec 2nd 2009 9:51AM
That's debatable. Calling The Divine Comedy strictly a "medieval" work seems inaccurate to me. While it might represent medieval literature in many thematic senses, we have to agree that it's at least some form of crossover work, right? I mean, the period (and place) in which it was written is generally accepted as the beginning of the Italian Renaissance.
Would you settle for calling it a "pre-Renaissance" work? ;-)
Judd @ Dec 2nd 2009 1:19PM
What about Scotland, PA? That was based off of Macbeth and had guns.
Oh, and did I mention that it's an insanely awesome movie with Christopher Walken?
Kyle @ Dec 2nd 2009 2:40PM
Anyone ever see Macbeth on the Estate?