Warner Bros has confirmed that a Green Lantern game is in production, with the company's aim being to bring it out alongside next summer's film. The game, which according to the announcement is "inspired by the feature film", will be called Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters.
The game will be a cross-platform affair, with Double Helix (G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, Silent Hill: Homecoming) handling PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii versions and Griptonite Games (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions DS, X-Men Originis: Wolverine DS) taking on a DS offering.
Green Lantern, if you never read about him, is Hal Jordan, a test pilot recruited by the Guardians of the Universe to be a space cop. To do this, he gets a ring that enables him to fly (in space, no less) and create pretty much anything he can think of out of green, will-powered energy.
Not a lot was said in the announcement about the actual game, beyond, "In the videogame players will utilize over a dozen constructs and take flight across the deepest parts of the Universe to restore intergalactic order by wielding the ultimate weapon: the Green Lantern power ring."
In the comics, those Manhunters in the title were the Green Lanterns' predecessors - robots created by the Guardians that upheld peace in the universe until (as inevitably happens with robots) it all went tits o'clock and they went bad. Whether the story will be exactly the same for them in the game is unclear.
The game was rumoured all the way back to this time last year, but this is the first official word on the subject.
The thing that worries us is the phrase "over a dozen constructs" in that dollop of blurb above. Green Lantern's supposed to be able to create anything he can imagine. Unless he's a bit of a thick, imagination-less bore, that's probably more than "over a dozen". Not that we're suggesting the devs create the possibility to create anything at all, but... wait - hey, Media Molecule! You up to much...?
The game will be a cross-platform affair, with Double Helix (G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, Silent Hill: Homecoming) handling PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii versions and Griptonite Games (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions DS, X-Men Originis: Wolverine DS) taking on a DS offering.
Green Lantern, if you never read about him, is Hal Jordan, a test pilot recruited by the Guardians of the Universe to be a space cop. To do this, he gets a ring that enables him to fly (in space, no less) and create pretty much anything he can think of out of green, will-powered energy.
Not a lot was said in the announcement about the actual game, beyond, "In the videogame players will utilize over a dozen constructs and take flight across the deepest parts of the Universe to restore intergalactic order by wielding the ultimate weapon: the Green Lantern power ring."
In the comics, those Manhunters in the title were the Green Lanterns' predecessors - robots created by the Guardians that upheld peace in the universe until (as inevitably happens with robots) it all went tits o'clock and they went bad. Whether the story will be exactly the same for them in the game is unclear.
The game was rumoured all the way back to this time last year, but this is the first official word on the subject.
The thing that worries us is the phrase "over a dozen constructs" in that dollop of blurb above. Green Lantern's supposed to be able to create anything he can imagine. Unless he's a bit of a thick, imagination-less bore, that's probably more than "over a dozen". Not that we're suggesting the devs create the possibility to create anything at all, but... wait - hey, Media Molecule! You up to much...?
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ECM 23 Jul 2010 17:12
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I was interested right up until "Double Helix."