Watchmen: The End Is Nigh revealed

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from ps3fanboy.com

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/11/10/...nigh-revealed/

The latest issue of EGM has revealed an upcoming Watchmen game, to be released around the same time as the movie in 2009. Subtitled The End Is Nigh, the Watchmen game will be episodic and downloadable via the PlayStation Network. The game will be a prequel to the movie, though there are currently few details regarding how it will actually play.

1Up promises that Watchmen fans needn't be worried about the franchise being treated badly. Several advisors for The End Is Nigh have worked on the original graphic novel, such as artist Dave Gibbons and Editor Len Wein. Sadly Alan Moore himself is nowhere to be seen. The game will flesh out the backstory of the comics a little more. There's a lot to play with so we're intrigued to see more details once they're finally released.

from 1up.com

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171165

The latest issue of EGM finally arrived in our offices today, which means they should be reaching subscribers any day now, and as hinted at at the end of the previous Resident Evil issue, our December mag has a big surprise on the cover: The unveiling of Watchmen: The End Is Nigh. You may recall the mind games and questions EGM editor-in-chief James Mielke, has been playing as of late, what with the blog posts asking readers to identify the next cover of the magazine. The secret behind figuring out the correct cover (which a few of you did) was not to try and discern what the game was based on the posted images, but instead by deciphering based on the way they were posted. Blurred out and mirrored opposite each other, in the manner of a Rorschach blot, the image was a composite Rorschach-style image of the game's star, Rorschach. What's interesting about the Watchmen game (which many purists may view as blasphemy) is the level of care and attention Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment are putting into the game.
Not only is Watchmen: The End Is Nigh a prequel (fleshing out many of the brief flashbacks hinted at in the graphic novel), it's episodic, and it's downloadable. EGM has the full reveal, including over 20 screenshots and interviews with 300 and Watchmen director Zack Snyder, original Watchmen illustrator Dave Gibbons, and veteran comics author/End Is Nigh scripter, (and Alan Moore's original mentor on the Watchmen series) Len Wein. In fact, EGM went all the way out to Copenhagen, Denmark to visit with the development team, Deadline Games (which features an international cast of talent, including one designer who worked on Shenmue, Super Monkey Ball, and F-Zero GX). We also spoke with the game's producer, Soren Lund. The issue not only features everything you need to know about the game, but also insights and secrets to the upcoming movie, straight from the mouth of Zack Snyder himself.

While your first instinct regarding a movie/comic-based licensed game might be a poor one, EGM's James Mielke (a serious Watchmen fan) came away genuinely impressed with the authenticity, treatment, and care Deadline Games is devoting to the prequel. They know they have a huge fanbase to convince, and it shows in their work.

The latest EGM also features a round-up of the big events at the recent Tokyo Game Show, as well as a nifty gift guide for the holidays featuring eclectic, off-beat game-related ideas that you might not expect (no games!), and a developer's wishlist with various gaming luminaries' number one holiday wishes. Does Tetsuya Mizuguchi want a real astronaut suit for Christmas? Maybe! It's also the first of the big reviews issues, covering many of the season's big games, including Little Big Planet, Gears of War 2, Wii Music, Fable 2, Mirror's Edge, Fallout 3, Dead Space, Saints Row 2, and more. Of course you've probably read many of these reviews on 1UP, but EGM gives these games the three-man review treatment for a second or third opinion.

Finally, in case this wasn't enough to keep your brains busy, issue 235 also features an interview with Grasshoper Manufacture mastermind, Goichi Suda (aka Suda-51), and an exclusive look at Batman: Arkham Asylum and one of the game's (and Batman's) main baddies: Killer Croc. We've posted the shiny, metallic polybag here, so you know what to look out for on newsstands in about 10 days (and so subscribers know what they're missing), as well as the magazine's unconventional, minimalist black-and-white cover, featuring the Watchmen's principal protagonist, Rorshcach.