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You can visit the desolate world of Wall-E, this summer's animated movie about a trash-compacting robot, in an upcoming xBox game. Judging from these early screen shots, it looks like the Wall-E game may do too good a job of capturing the robot's loneliness and the toll of time on his robotic circuits. You'll be able to explore 10 other worlds in the game, but if they all look like this we'd probably have to commit robo-suicide to stave off the inevitable boredom and insanity. Minor movie spoilers after the jump
Looks like Wall-E's little bug sidekick will make it to the game as well, so that might be a bit of a spoiler news: he doesn't get squished and sent to insectoid heaven in the flick. Players will be able to play head-to-head in the multiplayer version of this game, so we're not sure if that means multiple Wall-E's or what. but we're sincerely hoping they don't rush this game out to coincide with the flick, giving us a crappy game that vanishes from shelves in the blink of an eye. If it does, at least we'll have this artwork to fondly remember it by. Wall-E: First Screenshots [Team Xbox]
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IT better have "tank" style controls!
I'm a real boy!
(sorry)
Movie games are terrible.
They have been since E.T. on the 2600, and, as long as there are studio executives yammering about synergy, movie games will always be terrible.
Number 5 is alive.
(sorry x2)
@domz: Just because Number 5 can pass the Turing Test does not mean that Number 5 is alive. Threepio passed the same Turing Test and yet every time he runs his vocoder, all I can think is "Jeez, that brass-plated douchebag needs to get a life."
Now Bender Rodriguez.... that was (will be) a robot that knows how to live.
@omg-ponies: au contraire, AVP2 kicked ASS. BOOYAH!!
@banmojo:
Well, AVP2 was only vaguely movie-based. More based on comics really. But I definitely think there have been a few movie games that were pretty good. Chronicles of Riddick comes to mind.
@etho: Agreed. The games for AVP have been out long before the movies were made. I loved the arcade AVP, Final Fight style. That was the butter.
@omg-ponies: I think people will forget about the E.T. game fast once they played Wall-E. Gameplay wise he's won't do much interesting stuff.
Oh well, maybe I'm wrong and it will turn out as God Of War on Steroids.
@omg-ponies: GoldenEye 64.
You lose.
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