Liver&Onions

***Tarantino’s Cult Classic Movie, Reservoir Dogs To Make Its Gaming Debut at E3***

San Francisco, CA – (May 4, 2006) – Eidos, one of the world’s leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, part of SCi Entertainment Group Plc (SEG), today announced that it plans to publish Reservoir Dogs™ on the Xbox™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and PC for release in fall 2006. The game will be unveiled at the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), held May 10-12 in Los Angeles, California.

With multiple DVD releases through Lionsgate, as well as assorted merchandise such as apparel, action figures, posters and novelty items, the film’s cult status has only increased in the years since its theatrical premiere, leading to the next evolution with the video game debut.

Reservoir Dogs is based on the 1992 Quentin Tarantino-directed classic movie about five total strangers who are brought together to carry out a diamond heist. The robbery goes wrong when the alarm is tripped and the cops show up. In the ensuing confusion, four of the robbers make it back to their warehouse rendezvous but it is quickly apparent that one of them is an undercover police officer – but which one?

Staying true to the original plot, this intense, third person shooter follows the progress and planning of the famed diamond heist while filling in some of the cliffhanger questions from the film: What happened to Mr. Blue and Mr. Brown? Where did Mr. Pink hide the diamonds? What actually happened at the heist? These questions and more will be answered as the game unfolds and according to the player’s tactics.

“Almost 15 years after the original debut of Reservoir Dogs, we are proud to reflect one of the most esteemed and duplicated directorial film debuts of all time in a gaming format, said Kevin Gill, US Marketing Manager. “Gaming and movie fans alike will have the unprecedented opportunity to play through the events of the movie as well as experiencing parts of the movie that happened off screen but are tangential to the main plot.”

Players get to fill the shoes of each iconic character in the film as they relive the Reservoir Dogs experience complete with the movie’s trademark style and wit. The game will also feature the full and original soundtrack from the movie – the super sounds of the seventies brought alive with the thematic “Little Green Bag”, the unforgettable “Stuck in the Middle with You “and more.

Matt

Fight Club, The Warriors, Godfather, Scarface, Sopranos, and now Reservoir Dogs. . .

Man, I'm getting sick of this shit.

PixyJunket

Jesus tap-dancing CHRIST.

Groucho

I played an earlier version of this. I got stuck on the "Talk about Like a Virgin" level.

Jeremy517

Sure sign that the "Video Game Announcements" sub-forum is not needed: The Video Game Talk mod doesn't even use it

Liver&Onions

Please keep on topic.

Michael Corvin

There's a Video Game Announcement forum? -hscratch-

Liver&Onions

Please keep on topic.

Yes, there is...but it's dying and is going to be eliminated soon.

Groucho

You delete that forum in a dream, you'd better wake up and apologize!

kgrogers1979

Who said originality is dead?

What's next, a game based on Peewee's Big Adventure?

jeffdsmith

goN:

PixyJunket

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

pinata242

Indeed. I can't wait to play to find this out!

I'm more worried about the "Leave a Tip" level. Will it be required to put in even if I play as Mr. Pink?

The Bus

I'm only playing if I get to be Mr. Black.

Link_182

This game has been in development forever. It seems to me I remember seeing early screen shots of it quite a while ago. Someone mentioned a Sopranos game. I didn't know one exsisted. When did this happen?

ScandalUMD

I hope the player character spends the whole game gut-shot and bleeding out on the floor.

sniper308

Why do you get the cool name

Liver&Onions

We got the announcement just today.

Wick

The fact that it's being published by Eidos scares me. I've never been a big fan of Eidos, or their games. I've actually only liked a couple of them that I've played...

kgrogers1979

What does the publisher matter? The developers are the ones that actually make the game. Sure, a publisher can rush the developers to make it out by a certain deadline, so you get an incomplete buggy game. (That happened with Knights of the Old Republic 2). Other than that, the quality of a game is determined by the developer's talents, not by who the publisher is.

Eidos has published quite a few good games: The Thief series, the Hitman series, Deus Ex, and Lego Star Wars. I think Eidos just got a bad reputation because they like to whore out Lara Croft and Tomb Raider.

PixyJunket

Yeah, I think the fact that somebody thought it'd be a good idea to make an "intense, EXTREME action game" out of a movie that was mostly dialogue-driven should worry you more than any developer or publisher behind the project. I surmise we'll see a Donnie Darko first person shooter and a Clerks GTA-clone at some point.

xmiyux

That's it! We need a song and dance rhythm version of the Passion! Perfect!

Matt

Citizen Kane: The Game!

In this fast-paced, extreme third-person shooter, you are reporter Jerry Thompson, travelling through time and newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane's memories, to locate the mysterious artifact simply known as "Rosebud." Can you find Rosebud and use it to bring back Kane from the dead, before it's too late?

You haven't experienced Citizen Kane until you've played Citizen Kane: The Game!

Rated M for Mature.

DJ_Longfellow

At least THE WARRIORS was a GOOD game. I'm hesitant about RD and the Sopranos though. Scarface seems to have SOME promise.

PixyJunket

I am truly surprised there wasn't at least a GBA cash-in on that one.