Ohmigod! You know what would be an AWESOME video game?

[thebitterguy]

You know what would be an awesome video game?

Robocop as a Grand Theft Auto style sandbox game. You can do an introductory bit as Murphy, fightin' crime and gaining XP, until you get killed by Clarence and his crew, and then you get all Robocop-ed up, and you roll around Detroit fighting crime. And it would give Nancy Allen & Peter Weller some work (he can't be satisfied with academia).

It's so totally perfect. You could drive around in your cop car, or on a police bike, or possibly even the jetpack (or not, that was rather silly). And you wouldn't even have to kill hookers to get healed up, just go back to base and eat baby food, or unscrew your head with a power drill.

Man! It would rock SO MUCH.

Comments

[stop-no-dont.livejournal.com]

DUDE, this is a no-brainer. Good idea!

[bluelang.livejournal.com]

I am SO there with you!

I'll buy that for forty nine dollars!

[spatch]

I would totally play if A. you could drive the 6000 SUX and B. play the "Run Over The Poor Bastard Who Just Got Doused In Acid" mission over and over and over.

[patricks.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see a post-apocalypse GTA, doing missions for various gangs & enclaves of survivors & dodging plague-zombie mutants at night.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I'd play it. It seems we've got the beginnings of something like that with "Crackdown." Maybe if the Ghostbusters game does well (according to Dan Ackroyd, it's on; Sony sold Universal the rights and he's doing mocap for the game.)

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

I know what it meant, but I read GTA as 'Greater Toronto Area'. Have there been any zombie movies shot here?

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

You could get 'department points' for official police upgrades by doing stuff the corrupt government wants you to, or 'black market points' for crazy street cyborg parts by going rogue and fighting the Man. And if you accumulate enough you could tip over into, like, Super-Oppressive Fascist Police State game mode or the Revolutionary Uprising one, where the sandbox is still all there but with different event triggers.

[thebitterguy]

Only the two Resident Evil films.

[thebitterguy]

Dude. Totally.

Re: I'll buy that for forty nine dollars!

[thebitterguy]

That would be a ragdoll minigame, like in those drive n' crash games. Depending on the angle and speed, he'd explode in different ways.

[perich.livejournal.com]

The upcoming game Crackdown is the closest thing to what you want.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, yeah. Miniguns n' dunebuggies!

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Right. ^^; I'm not a connoisseur of the genre, so I don't remember these things.

[thebitterguy]

Dan Ackroyd's doing motion cap? For what, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man?

[thebitterguy]

Another reason I wish I'd gotten a 360.

It does sound neat, although teh Star's video game reviewer says it's easy to stop caring about crime and just enjoy leaping over tall buildings.

[rentagurkha.livejournal.com]

Also Land of the Dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418819/).

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

No, I think he's getting paid entirely in scotch this time.

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

I know RE2 had many scenes in Toronto, but all I know of is Hamilton. RE1 and 2 were shot here, as was Silent Hill.

[thebitterguy]

I understand Dan's a tequila man now.

[thebitterguy]

As was Day of the Dead, starring Canada's sweetheart, Sarah Polley.

[perich.livejournal.com]

"Robocop wants to SOAR!"

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see a Cyberpunk GTA... ideally Cyberpunk 2020 actually crossed over with GTA but I'd take something just similar too. Cyberpunk's already got cities with crime infested areas (and 'good areas' of town where committing minor crimes gets hell brought down on you), gangs, is full of characters of dubious morality. And add in the ability to customize your character with cyberwear and Netrunning missions to GTA would rule.

But a post-apocalyptic one might be fun too.

[thebitterguy]

If they hadn't fucked up the Shadowrun MMORPG by turning it into a (not promising looking) FPS, it would have been close.

[crashing-angel.livejournal.com]

I would buy it to see Robo-cop pop open a bottle of beets from Gerber at the end of a long day.

[thebitterguy]

Well, yeah, product placement is cool.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, it's weird that there's been no Robocop games lately. Apparently there was a bad FPS a few years back, but this would totally rock.

[thebitterguy]

The idea just ooze awesomeness.

And you could unlock ED-209 and wander around shootin' stuff!