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Uwe Boll "happy" with his new videogame News
PC Xbox 360 News by Ellie Gibson
Uwe Boll is best known as a film director specialising in videogame adaptations. But now he's turned his attention to the small screen, and is working on a new game all of his own.
It's called Tunnel Rats 1968, and you can see it in action over at Game Trailers. According to Boll it's based on the forthcoming film of the same name, and he's been heavily involved with the project.
"Replay Studios, in Hamburg, developed the game with the Viet Cong engine," he told Eurogamer. (That's the same studio currently working on Velvet Assassin, by the way.) "They based it on my movie, and we delivered our script, screenshots et cetera to them. They also used the same composer.
"I controlled the production, and I'm happy with the game," he added.
Tunnel Rats 1968 will be released this autumn. According to Boll it is in development for PC and Xbox 360, and will be published by CDV.
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Collymilad
18/09/08 @ 15:39
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BOLL GET AWAY NOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!
One user on GT sums it up quite well: "uwe boll...listen you piece of ****...nobody ****ing likes you go away, you ruin every franchise you get your mits on why do you think Blizzard told you to **** off with the movie idea? "
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PearOfAnguish
18/09/08 @ 15:41
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That cretin is happy with everything he does. The man actually looks at Paul WS Anderson movies as a high watermark, for God's sake, he's not right in the head.
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Muddtallica
18/09/08 @ 15:58
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He's happy with his game? Well, that's not very useful to me; from what I can tell, Dr Boll was "happy" with most of his film projects too, but it didn't mean that anyone else was.
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realworld666
18/09/08 @ 16:25
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If Uwe Boll thinks this game is great then surely its gotta be pre ordered NOW!!!!!!!
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DannThursday
18/09/08 @ 16:46
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I thought he said somewhere this movie didn't have a script and that it was complete improv. So what script did he hand the studio and how are they making the game to match the movie?
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ExplodingClown
18/09/08 @ 17:26
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Wonder who he suckered into funding this turd? Goddamned bait-and-switch artist.
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For the first time ever when watching a game trailer, I genuinely laughed out loud. Then my jaw dropped.
How exactly does Uwe Boll EVER get any work? Interview process: "Okay guys, I've got this GREAT idea! Here's my CV, so far I've worked on such smash hits as.. um.." If he can do it, I should be the fucking Chief Exec of EA. |
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That is one of the worst trailers ever. It gives you absolutely no indication what the game is about other than that it is a FPS. It even uses the same sequence of forest twice! The statements that flash up on screen are totally uninspiring and the graphics engine looked like it was struggling with itself. Jesus.
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I like Boll.
Not only is he standing up against all the nerds out there bad mouthing him (despite not actually knowing him as a person). But he's keeping at it, doing what many of us would DREAM of doing (making films and video games) Sure there's a lot of immature people online who spread their hatred towards him for no other reason than they dont like his films and because they can hide behind their computer monitors.. But just because you dont like what someone makes - doesnt mean you should "hate" that person.. that's sad.. some of you need to grow up.. seriously. There are people out there in the big wide world who'll have different opinions to that of you, the internet mob-mentality geek masses. |
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I hope one day all you haters out there get to work on something which you can put your passion and love into. I doubt it'll happen to most of you (a lot of you will end up flipping burgers and saying "do you want fries with that?"). But I *do* hope it happens to you.. so you can see what it's like to have something youve worked hard on slagged off by the faceless internet masses and have a load of geeks who dont know you - declare you to be an asshole solely because they dont like what you made.
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MysticDoob
18/09/08 @ 21:28
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Most of the hatred of Boll stems from the sheer disrespect that he shows towards the video games that he is adapting. If a novel was adapted for the big screen in the same way as some of Boll's movies, there would be outrage. And rightly so. It damages credentials for all involved, and alienates true fans.
I would not hate him as a person if he was merely an ambitious film director whose works I dislike. However, he is arrogant, foul-mouthed and, as demonstrated by his 'boxing' bouts against critics, a bit of a bully. I would love to see this game studio take his intellectual property and completely butcher it in the name of art, if only for the sake of delicious irony. |
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To be honest, if someone offered to pay me to churn out utter crap, regardless of how well it sold, then I'd be doing it too. That's not to say I rate him as a producer/director/writer, I've not seen a single film of his that wasn't tripe. But then I think the scriptwriters for his films deserve a fair bit of the heat too for penning such predictable rubbish.
As for the game, the trailer certainly does it no favours, least of all the idea of setting half of it in colon-esque tunnel sections. I was kind of hoping when the 'Noone could have prepared you for this' line cropped up, he was going to suddenly pull something amazing out of his hat. But sadly it was just a helicopter falling on its side for no reason. |
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plastickitty
18/09/08 @ 22:38
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If you were born in 1968 you should of been trained to hunt down and kill Uwe Boll
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The reason people hate Uwe Boll is twofold. Firstly, he's a jerk and secondly he's a very very bad director.
Take a read of this article written by the screenwriters for Alone in the Dark. Unlike the movie itself, it's fairly illuminating: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-... |
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PearOfAnguish
19/09/08 @ 10:36
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Some of the comments are great!
"Alone in the Dark was awful but at least none of his films has been worse than The Mummy 3." Hahaha COME ON. The Mummy is no masterpiece, but Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead are absolute drek. Utterly terrible in every respect. "I hope one day all you haters out there get to work on something which you can put your passion and love into. I doubt it'll happen to most of you (a lot of you will end up flipping burgers and saying "do you want fries with that?"). But I *do* hope it happens to you.. so you can see what it's like to have something youve worked hard on slagged off by the faceless internet masses and have a load of geeks who dont know you - declare you to be an asshole solely because they dont like what you made." Do you work for him? I'd say you are Uwe Boll, but your posts aren't written in unintelligible pidgin English like the good Dr Boll. Not only does Uwe Boll make shitty movies, but he is an asshole (see the SA link) and horribly arrogant. He can't even accept how awful he is, instead making stupid statements about his superiority to far more successful directors.
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Oh my god how many chances there are to make a colon joke here, I'm surprised to only find one comment about this :)
Not that I have any true hate against the guy but "having his head up his arse" seems to be a fitting expression and inspiration for the tunnelparts. I wonder how the escape hole from these tunnels look like. to me it seems like this guy has a severe delusion of grandeur. |
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onyx_elite
20/09/08 @ 00:44
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Ok I'm going to do my best at a fair summary of what I think of that game based on the trailer.
- The outdoor environment looks really nice. That is not to say the levels have any structure, just nice trees and leaves n that. - The HUD is mostly ripped off from Call of Duty/Ghost Recon/etc etc. - The last time I read anything about the vietnam war it wasn't related to the comfortable height of the tunnels that lets you sprint through them. - The last time I read anything about the vietnam war, I don't remember anyone being trained to chase the Viet Cong into the tunnels, which were lets face it their own unique territory in which US soldiers would probably get horribly massacred. It was more likely based around tactics of flushing them out using gas etc. - The last time I read anything about the vietnam war was probably 5 years ago when Vietnam games were briefly popular. - What the hell are zipperheads? - Isn't Tunnel Rats a racial slur? They may as well have called it Chinky War. |
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curtlikesmeat
23/09/08 @ 07:56
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I like Boll too - sure he's annoying because he's doing what we all would like to do and at one stage was given a golden ticket in the film industry because of obscure German tax laws, but that seems to have gone now. He seems quite funny in the videos I've seen him in and that boxing with journalists thing was also quite amusing (when he totally hammered them!).
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curtlikesmeat
23/09/08 @ 07:57
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I should add that I'm aware his films are shit and a travesty, I just mean he's got a certain likeable character about him.
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