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5 books that would make awesome games

January 14, 2009 in Blog comments 7

It's common these days for movies to have a game version. It's even becoming common for very popular games to have a movie made about them. But what about books? This article looks at 5 books that would make great games.

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    Bale Fire* Jan 14, 09
    Never really heard of any of those books, but the concepts sound interesting enough.
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    Roy Jan 14, 09
    It does sound like an interesting concept, depending on how well they can carry the story out.
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    reaver11 Jan 14, 09
    The entire Divine Comedy has my vote. Though I'd much prefer a movie, doing an action game out of the Inferno and strategy games out of Purgatory and Paradise would be awesome. Maybe do a GOW-style game out of the story or something. Nobody wants to walk around as a 12th century Italian poet with his dead idol talking their way through hell as they are assaulted by Cerberus, the Gorgons, the Giants, demons, and trees...
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    reaver11 Jan 14, 09
    The entire Divine Comedy has my vote. Though I'd much prefer a movie, doing an action game out of the Inferno and strategy games out of Purgatory and Paradise would be awesome. Maybe do a GOW-style game out of the story or something. Nobody wants to walk around as a 12th century Italian poet with his dead idol talking their way through hell as they are assaulted by Cerberus, the Gorgons, the Giants, demons, and trees...
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    Livewire_19 Jan 15, 09
    I haven't heard of any of these books either, but they could make interesting games.

    And what is up with all the duplicate comments on Game Grep that started popping up yesterday?
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      reaver11 Jan 15, 09
      I don't know. Its really annoying the piss outa me. I thought it was just my browser though.

      P.S.--sorry if this dupes. Wasn't my fault.
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    kspiess Jan 15, 09
    I honestly don't think whomever wrote that article even read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    If he did he would realize the book doesn't have tons in common with the movie Blade Runner, and would not make a very good game at all.

    Snow Crash would have made a good book ten years ago maybe. Now a days, not so much.

    Enders Game could make a great game.

    I haven't read Eric of Meliwhatever, but that sounds like it could be good for a game. The Piers Anthony book I'm just going to have to pass on because I'm not a fan of that dude's work.

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