Ubisoft not doing Heroes game News
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Ubisoft has given up on making a game about TV show Heroes.
"The rights to the Heroes videogame have reverted back to NBC Universal," US PR director Jaime Cottini told MTV.
"Ubisoft will no longer produce a videogame based on the TV series."
Heroes creator Tim Kring originally announced the game in July last year, when we were told it would be a third-person action game for PC, PS3 and 360.
The TV show is currently in its third series, but it has struggled recently. For example, we got bored of season two within about ten seconds.
Ubisoft may also have been bruised by the critical response to its Lost videogame, which I liked and apparently nobody else in the entire world did.
Heroes stars Hayden Panettiere as cheerleader Claire Bennet, and also features Ali Larter as Nikki Sanders. These details are superfluous to our news story, but gratuitously mentioning attractive famous women is allegedly how the Telegraph website gets hits, and we're not above that.
We've contacted Ubisoft to see if there's any more to Heroes' cancellation, but we don't expect much more than the statement above.
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muscleblade
07/11/08 @ 09:08
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Could have been a good 4 hour game like LOST. I like a decent 4 hour game every now and then.
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kinky_mong
07/11/08 @ 10:26
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Season 2 of the show was boring and went nowhere, probably what's gonna kill it off in the end.
They listened to people's criticisms of season 2 and adjusted the show accordingly. So now Season 3 is absolutely ridiculous and loses what tiny shred of credibility he had by coming up with the sort of twists that a trashy American daytime soap would be ashamed of. "OMFG!!11!! Sylar iz mi brotherz!!11!!" |
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soundtrack
07/11/08 @ 11:17
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None of you liked the LOST game. It's just that the camera view brought you back to Beyond Good and Evil from whence it obviously came, and that's what caused the rise in serotonin levels.
At least that's what I told myself when I found I liked it... |
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Triggerhappytel
07/11/08 @ 11:47
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Not surprisingly, really - the Lost game didn't sell that well, Heroes has been losing steam ever since they announced the game, the second series was an all-round disaster.
But I am still watching the show, despite loving it and loathing it in equal measure. |
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staypuft82
08/11/08 @ 17:53
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I enjoyed series 1 and 2 and am loving the third at the moment. Really hope someone picks up this idea and makes an action game out of it. Although the show is all over the place, so i can't see where a game would go with it.
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Slipstream
09/11/08 @ 03:17
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"Ubisoft will no longer produce a videogame based on the TV series."
Phew, that was close! Can't have them bosh this up. They'll probably repent with a game...oh I dunno...'Imagine-Super Hero?' |
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