Madagascar Screens Escape
Let's face it, Madagascar's a more interesting title than Central Park Zoo.
Regular readers will know that, once in a while, we like to bring you news of game/film tie-ins. A disdainful remark here, a picture of cleavage there, it's usually the result of a slow news day and an obsession with Dead or Alive and lady parts. Well, today is slightly different, in that we bring you the first screens from Madagascar, the upcoming game of the film from Dreamworks to be published - in the USA at least - in May by Activision.
The game centres on four animal characters - a zebra, a hippo, a giraffe and a lion - who reside in a Central Park zoo, New York. The Madagascar part of the game comes in the guise of platform-type gameplay through the jungles of said country, with the regular selection of jumping, kicking and smashing obstacles on the agenda.
It all sounds (and looks) a bit ordinary, but the film is bound to be a massive hit this summer, if not with the youngsters who may be drawn to the game, then with tech-geeks mulling over how fantastic the lion's fur looks. Ah well, as long as it's as much of a laugh as Shrek.
Madagascar gets a US release in May, on Nintendo DS, GBA, GameCube, and PC, PS2 and XBox.
The game centres on four animal characters - a zebra, a hippo, a giraffe and a lion - who reside in a Central Park zoo, New York. The Madagascar part of the game comes in the guise of platform-type gameplay through the jungles of said country, with the regular selection of jumping, kicking and smashing obstacles on the agenda.
It all sounds (and looks) a bit ordinary, but the film is bound to be a massive hit this summer, if not with the youngsters who may be drawn to the game, then with tech-geeks mulling over how fantastic the lion's fur looks. Ah well, as long as it's as much of a laugh as Shrek.
Madagascar gets a US release in May, on Nintendo DS, GBA, GameCube, and PC, PS2 and XBox.
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YenRug 14 Jan 2005 13:43
1/7
Saw the trailer loads when I was in the US late last year, looks like it could be a good film. Just love the penguins:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/madagascar/
http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/madagascar/
LUPOS 14 Jan 2005 17:51
2/7
YenRug wrote:
Saw the trailer loads when I was in the US late last year, looks like it could be a good film. Just love the penguins:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/madagascar/
http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/madagascar/
i am one of those tech geeks... to much time in font of the old 3d modeling program!... and the lions hair aint that great... in fact the movie is more stylized then realistic... looks nice.. just nothign extraordinary.
Also
I flippin love those penguins... gawd!
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tyrion 15 Jan 2005 13:14
3/7
LUPOS wrote:
i am one of those tech geeks... to much time in font of the old 3d modeling program!... and the lions hair aint that great... in fact the movie is more stylized then realistic... looks nice.. just nothign extraordinary.
You want to hear config and me when we get going talking about CGI!! We kick the s**t out of anything that's not 100% perfect. :-)
Speaking of lions, have you guys had a BBC program called "Pride" over there yet? It's a bunch of lions with CGI mouths and celebrity voices. Story sucks, but the animation on the mouths is quite good. And Robbie Coltrain was born to play an old, lazy Lion.
LUPOS wrote:
I flippin love those penguins... gawd!
I could have done with them being more "French Resistance" than "Goodfellas". Sort of like "The Mole" in the SOuth Park flick, but yep, they were funny.
LUPOS 17 Jan 2005 13:06
4/7
tyrion wrote:
You want to hear config and me when we get going talking about CGI!! We kick the s**t out of anything that's not 100% perfect. :-)
usually the same way... but i have learned to just let somethign things slide... it kills me knowing that i am far from the best at it... and i see profesional stuff with things wrogn that i know how to fix... and i work in a manfuacturing plant at the moment!
tyrion wrote:
Speaking of lions, have you guys had a BBC program called "Pride" over there yet? It's a bunch of lions with CGI mouths and celebrity voices. Story sucks, but the animation on the mouths is quite good. And Robbie Coltrain was born to play an old, lazy Lion.
we have it ("father of the pride" i believe) but i have managed to never actually see it on... my evenings are to heavily filled with halo2 on line. on a similar note the quality of the animation on jimmy neutron never fails to impress me. modeling and everyhtign else is decent for what it is... but the charcters animation is way above what i expect for a nickelodeon cartoon.
tyrion wrote:
I could have done with them being more "French Resistance" than "Goodfellas". Sort of like "The Mole" in the SOuth Park flick, but yep, they were funny.
i think penguins kinda being know for the tuxedo thing make more sense as mobsters... but i do love the mole... "was my muzer carefull when she stabed my heart with a coat hanger while i was steel in zee womb!"
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tyrion 17 Jan 2005 13:14
5/7
LUPOS wrote:
we have it ("father of the pride" i believe) but i have managed to never actually see it on... my evenings are to heavily filled with halo2 on line. on a similar note the quality of the animation on jimmy neutron never fails to impress me. modeling and everyhtign else is decent for what it is... but the charcters animation is way above what i expect for a nickelodeon cartoon.
Not the same thing as far as I know. This was live action Lions and CGI mouths. Not a cartoon, more like the "Babe" films. I've heard of "Father of the Pride", and I don't think it's the same thing.
This is what I'm on about.
kid_77 17 Jan 2005 13:33
6/7
Jesus wept. That program was sooooo bloody awful. Whenever there was a scrap they used the same footage. Male lions, taking chunks out of each other and causing a mini-sandstorm. How much wildlife archive footage must the BBC have? Tonnes, so why not use it?
And judging by the overall visuals, most of the budget must have gone to the stars wages.
Crap.
And judging by the overall visuals, most of the budget must have gone to the stars wages.
Crap.
LUPOS 17 Jan 2005 14:27
7/7
tyrion wrote:
Not the same thing as far as I know. This was live action Lions and CGI mouths. Not a cartoon, more like the "Babe" films. I've heard of "Father of the Pride", and I don't think it's the same thing.
WOAH! thats a wholey different load of crap... ironic the similarity in description that two rather different shows can have...
kid77 wrote:
And judging by the overall visuals, most of the budget must have gone to the stars wages.
its funny cause over on this side of "the pond" (see you can barely tell im an amurkan!) the only person on that show even close to a celebrity is Kate Winslet... and while shes may have some decent acting credits shes certainly isnt a big ticket earner.
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