Spielberg Game: Hitchcock Meets "E.T."

Newsweek reveals a little more about the first two games emerging from Steven Spielberg's partnership with Electronic Arts, the first being an "action-puzzle simulator" Wii game code-named PQRS. The second being a PS3 and Xbox 360 game code-named LMNO, which Newsweek pegs as "North by Northwest meets ET... if ET were female, grown up and hot.”

PQRS on Wii is described as blending the creativity of Jenga with the charm of a Saturday morning cartoon, it involves manipulating blocks with the Wii remote. Interesting news, in light of Atari’s recent announcement of videogame Jenga on Wii, scheduled to release later this year.

The second game (Spielberg is said to be working on three with Electronic Arts) is a PS3 and Xbox 360 game code-named LMNO, and is described as follows:

“You're an ex-secret agent, and the bond that you forge while on the run with the computer-controlled woman — good, bad, indifferent — determines the nature of her special abilities and the ways in which she'll assist you."

Says Spielberg, "The challenge is, can the game have an emotional impact on players while they are actively manipulating the world?"

Newsweek continues, "Based on the clever ways in which he and EA are extracting a genuine performance from their digital Eve - complete with eyes that widen, lips that curl and translucent skin that lights up in different colours to express her quicksilver moods - we think Spielberg's got yet another hit on his hands.”

The third game coming out of the Spielberg/EA partnership - presumably code-named "TUVW" - is still to be announced. More from EA's E3 conference this coming Wednesday which takes place at 2pm LA Time (10pm GMT).

^{source: Newsweek}