Exclusive: Minor Booyah: One Good Thing about the G.I. Joe Game & Movie
One of the things I’ve been pretty concerned about as I write my book, “The Game Changers,” is how popular culture has influenced videogames over time.
Along those lines, the movie industry and the game industry have not only been strange bedfellows over the years. They’ve been angry, mocking bedfellows. How bad? Probably like the last days of Kate and Jon. (”Please don’t squoosh the cereal in your anger!”) Probably like the long bouts of arguments in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (”If you start in about this other business, Martha, I warrrrrnnn you!”)
But now, you can see that the blockbuster movie is influenced more and more by games (despite crappy movie games, which will always be with us — remember Coraline). Look at the action in “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” for instance. Looks like someone watched (or maybe even played) Burnout for inspiration.
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Coming from the “About Damn Time” department, Electronic Arts finally confirmed this morning that, as a part of its exclusive licensing deal with Hasbro, it is currently deep in development of a new game based on the G.I. Joe toys and upcoming live-action movie. The game is scheduled to release around the same time as Paramount’s upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie, due to hit theaters August 7th. This will be the first time the G.I. Joe team has been seen on home consoles since the release of Capcom’s G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor on the NES back in 1992.