Ubisoft not doing Heroes game

By Tom Bramwell Published 7 November, 2008

Rights revert to NBC.

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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Comments (14) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • DFawkes #1 3 years ago

    ratings plummeted, writers got fired, game got cancelled. It's a shame, it had so much potential, but as much as I still enjoy it the 1st Season was stil the best.

  • muscleblade #2 3 years ago

    Could have been a good 4 hour game like LOST. I like a decent 4 hour game every now and then.

  • Cider-X #3 3 years ago

    Season 2 of the show was boring and went nowhere, probably what's gonna kill it off in the end.

  • DFawkes #4 3 years ago

    I agree with muscleblade, I wouldn't have minded a short game in between longer games. I quite liked Lost, might have only lasted a couple of gaming sessions but it was in the spirit of the show. Shame about the Heroes game.

  • kinky_mong #5 3 years ago

    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!!"

  • yupyup #6 3 years ago

    I quite liked the Lost game too Tom!

  • asphaltcowboy #7 3 years ago

    Season 2 was incredibly bad. I'm sort of enjoying Season 3...

  • samaran #8 3 years ago

    i kindof liked the lost game

    ironically

  • soundtrack #9 3 years ago

    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...

  • Triggerhappytel #10 3 years ago

    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.

  • DFawkes #11 3 years ago

    And revoltkid wins the annual DFawkes Award for best game idea! Though there isn't actually an award, sorry.

    I do love Supernatural, and a bit demon hunting wouldn't go amiss. I'm fairly sure a company does have an open licence for WB games, so it could happen.

  • the_mtfr #12 3 years ago

    I crapped my pants reading the title, I thought Ubisoft is killing the Heroes of Might and Magic license.

    Oh the Heroes show? That's a piece of shite.

  • staypuft82 #13 3 years ago

    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.

  • Slipstream #14 3 years ago

    "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?'