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Belfast firm make web game for film

CanDo Interactive have developed a promotional Shockwave game for the recently release film Running Scared – it can be played by going to the ‘game’ section at runningscaredthemovie.com. CanDo has previously worked on a game for the film Triple X 2 and helped with an SUV safety promotion run by the US Attorney General’s office.

REVIEW: Fahrenheit

Developer: quanticdream | Publisher: Atari (Infograms) | For: PS2 (Xbox, PC)

Reviewer: Cian Ginty  Fahrenheit (AKA 'Indigo Prophecy') strangely starts with a ritual-like murder. Strangely, the murderer, Lucas Kane is one of four playable characters; the others are Kane’s two NYPD hunters and his brother.

The game does it’s best to translate the characters’ physical and mental strains to the player vie visuals and sometimes strenuous controller tasks – from flashbacks and lapses, to rapped controlled button bashing.

The sanity of Kane and the others is critical, unless watched over it can end the game. And the game goes quickly from taking the time to having no time. There’s only a short time to choice dialogue and actions. Rushing or thinking it out, one character’s actions can affect the story and the game for the others.

It’s a griping epic for the mature gamer, with more then a hint of film influence, and possibly a hint of some film-like arrogances, it brings a whole new meaning to the words ‘action adventure’; just don’t let the hype takeover before playing.

Doom film in production, director changed

After the critically slated film adaptations, that were ‘Aliens vs. Predator’, and ‘Resident Evil: Apocalypse' few are optimistic of any film ever capturing the quality of the gaming experience.

There is however one video game adaptation that could possibly turn the tides. Doom the movie. [Ed - because the game is so simple?]

Doom film stays with Irish director, as studio changes

General | 16/06/2004

Ireland as a filming location is now being rumoured…

Even after the film rights change to Universal Studios, Irish man, Enda McCallion, is to still direct the Doom film as his first feature length film. It’s to be produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and John Wells.

McCallion shot his first film aged 16, and went on to study film at the Royal College of Art in London. He has worked on advertisements for Guinness owners Diago, and the band Nine Inch Nails.

Early last week the film studio Warner Brothers lost the rights to the Doom film, at the time the games developer ‘id’ were denying a deal with Universal Studios, although the film trade publications the Hollywood Reporter, and Variety were saying other wise.

Variety has also reported the film is an adaptation of the upcoming PC and Xbox game Doom 3. The script is apparently written by Dave Callaham.

Set on a Mars space station, the sci-fi horror first person shooter (FPS) game is currently without a firm release date, although some have it pencilled in for a July 14 release.

Source: GamesIndustry.biz, Hollywood Reporter, RTE online