Uwe Boll "happy" with his new videogame

By Ellie Gibson Published 18 September, 2008

Movie director speaks out on next project.

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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  • von_Doll #1 3 years ago

    Can't wait! This will be excellent!

  • galerian86 #2 3 years ago

    The game looks awful and generic. They prepare you for tunnel??

  • Collymilad #3 3 years ago

    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? "
    Edited by 1 at 18/09/08 @ 16:41

  • PearOfAnguish #4 3 years ago

    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.

  • Thunderbolt #5 3 years ago

    Doesnt bode well for Velver Assassin either!

  • toy_brain #6 3 years ago

    Well if he's happy, then I'm happy.

    I'm not bloody well buying his game, or seeing his movie, but its nice when people are happy.

    /Is in a good mood today.

  • Muddtallica #7 3 years ago

    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.

  • Tiger_Walts #8 3 years ago

    Pfft, nothing but a corridor shooter. :p

  • Mildew #9 3 years ago

    What a load of "Bollshit"

  • iokthemonkey #10 3 years ago

    HOORAY! I've been bashed on the head and woke up in 1997!

  • smoison #11 3 years ago

    After his good work on POSTAL I have some new found respect for this guy now.

    Lets find out if he can do it again.

  • Rpt81 #12 3 years ago

    Achievement Unlocked
    Brave or Stupid? - You sat through one of Uwe Boll's movies: 200g

  • realworld666 Verified Lead Programmer, Fuzzy-Frog Games #13 3 years ago

    If Uwe Boll thinks this game is great then surely its gotta be pre ordered NOW!!!!!!!

  • Restart #14 3 years ago

    1/10

  • Zanuah #15 3 years ago

    @ Miildew : Nice one! :D

    I kinda like the idea that he's trying to pursue.. (the whole messy tunnel wars, that they had in Vietnam I think)... but the execution is just terrible... just like his movies.

  • Chufty #16 3 years ago

    I can't wait to see Ellie review this one.

  • Icebox #17 3 years ago

    That game looks like turd.

  • DannThursday #18 3 years ago

    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?

  • rowsdower #19 3 years ago

    "Movie director"

    Whether intended or not, I'm gonna put that down as sarcasm. Eurogamer has too much of my respect to allow me to think otherwise.

  • Rirekon #20 3 years ago

    "I can't wait to see Ellie review this one."
    Most damning comment ever!

  • JonFE #21 3 years ago

    Is there a tax loop-hole in the videogames industry as well???

  • ExplodingClown #22 3 years ago

    Wonder who he suckered into funding this turd? Goddamned bait-and-switch artist.

  • schnide #23 3 years ago

    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.

  • abcdecoy #24 3 years ago

    Uwe Boll is a genius, I love postal and I love him. Alone in the Dark was awful but at least none of his films has been worse than The Mummy 3.

  • Tomo #25 3 years ago

    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.

  • huxathon #26 3 years ago

    pozstal movie is good. that is all, goodbye.

  • smelly #27 3 years ago

    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.

  • smelly #28 3 years ago

    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.

  • MysticDoob #29 3 years ago

    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.

  • Chauncy #30 3 years ago

    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.

  • Xerx3s #31 3 years ago

    I pity the developers that have to associate their name to his.

  • plastickitty #32 3 years ago

    If you were born in 1968 you should of been trained to hunt down and kill Uwe Boll

  • rowsdower #33 3 years ago

    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://ww w.somethingawful.com/d/feature-...

  • MORZTAN #34 3 years ago

    @ rowsdower

    Thank you for the link. A really good read. What a fuckhead...

  • DaM #35 3 years ago

    "Straight to budget" then?

  • PearOfAnguish #36 3 years ago

    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.
    Edited by 1 at 19/09/08 @ 13:50

  • nedgip #37 3 years ago

    wow thats looks really really bad

  • Snooz #38 3 years ago

    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.

  • onyx_elite #39 3 years ago

    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.

  • SomaticSense #40 3 years ago

    Car crash!

    Well worth keeping an eye on this as it should be fun ;)

  • SunoffaBeach #41 3 years ago

    if you like Boll you must be a big fat tunnel rat!

  • djed #42 3 years ago

    YEA! Helicopters! YEA!

    I can hardly wait for the reviews.

  • saku_luk #43 3 years ago

    Mummy 3 was a p@# of @#@t......I left the cinema after 30 mins....and I kicked my bro ass for making me go and waste 30 mins of my life! I hope I will never have to touch this game ;p

  • curtlikesmeat #44 3 years ago

    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!).

  • curtlikesmeat #45 3 years ago

    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.