3 posts tagged “id software”
Roger Avary is working on the Return to Castle Wolfenstein movie based on the video game by Id Software, Gray Matter, and Nerve. Unlike a lot of the other doomed (har-har) video game to movie adaptations I think RTCW had a lot of depth to the storyline and a lot of unexplored potential. As long as Avary stays away from the cliché CG action/horror movie genre, I think this could go well.
RTCW was an instant classic video game in my books partially because what may initally seem as a bunch of nonsensical fantasy involving WWII Nazis dabbling in weird occult and technological research is actually partially based off of semi-factual references.
Castle Wolfenstein is of course a reference to the Nazi owned Castle Wewelsburg, "known for becoming the ritual headquarters of the SS in 1934 under Heinrich Himmler", who appears in the game. There are quite a lot of references to Nazi Occultism in real life, "Himmler has been claimed to have considered himself the spiritual successor or even reincarnation of Heinrich the Fowler [the final boss guy], having established special SS rituals for the old king and returned his bones to the crypt at Quedlinburg Cathedral." The Holy Grail even makes an appearance in the game in true Indian Jones style.
Even some of the crazy aircraft in the game turned out to be actual German experimental planes:
Bachem Ba 349
Horten Ho 229
If they're going to make a movie based on RTCW, there's a lot of material that the game just barely scrapes, so there should be a lot they have to work with. This movie should actually write itself.
John Carmack of Id Software made a surprise appearance at Apple WWDC07 during Steve Jobs keynote speech and presented the first look video of Id Tech 5.
Question of yesterday, I think... better late than never, I suppose. I have a tendancy to miss all the qotd's that I want to contribute to.
Anyway, video games have been a pretty big part of my life, though I never really popped that many quarters into the arcade machines. I started off getting hooked on video games mostly on the PC (IBM XT) and some of the early consoles (Atari, NES and Sega Genesis). But here's a quick random list just for fun...
Early Games on the IBM XT:
- Arkanoid
- Hero's Quest (so, you want to be a hero)
- California Games
- Xenon II
- Prince of Persia (the first sidescroller one)
- Duck Hunt
- Pac Man
- Tetris
- Star Fox
- Super Star Wars
- Mario (I suck, my timing's always off)
- Time Crisis
- Street Fighter
- Mortal Kombat
- Virtual-On (awesome)
- Quake III Arena/Team Arena (deserves special recognition)
- Quake (I, II and 4)
- Doom (I, II and 3)
- American McGee's Alice
- StarCraft
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- Star Wars: Dark Forces, Jedi Outcast , Jedi Academy
- Half-Life and all sequels
- Star Wars: Republic Commando
- Medal of Honor series
- Call of Duty I and II
- Aliens Versus Predator I and II
- Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
- Myst/Riven etc.
- Heavy Metal: FAKK 2
- Chronicles of Riddick
- Gore (total waste of money)
- Unreal Tournament 2003, because right after I bought it, they released UT2004 which was nothing more than a glorified patch that solved all the problems that annoyed me in 2003.
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Oooo... can't wait *froth at mouth*)
- Final Fantasy VII (I feel like I missed out on a big part of pop culture)
