3) Schindler’s List: Take the controversies surrounding Six Days in Fallujah, every GTA game in existence and you’d have just a hint of the firestorm that would have arisen once the media got wind of this game. Sure, the game would likely have involved players stepping into the incredibly noble shoes of Oscar Schindler and attempting to rescue as many Jews as possible from death and persecution at the hands of the Nazis. As always though, Fox News would have featured dozens of commentators screeching about the callousness of a game that allows players to participate in their own virtual holocaust. References would be made to non-existent features like customized gas chambers and high scores for Nazi-like efficiency.
2) Million Dollar Baby: Sports games are one of those genres that generally have to do little to improve. Update their rosters, add a few features and tweak things here and there and bam, instant sales. After the most common sports games (football, basketball, soccer and baseball) boxing games are probably one of the most common. It’s just an extension of gamers love for pummeling your friends in games like Soul Calibur, simply with a real-world setting. The game wouldn’t be too bad, except for the part where if you lose a match, you end up paralyzed and have to play the euthanasia minigame.
1) Twilight: This would be the first video game whose demographic skipped adolescent and young adult males entirely and went after pre-teen girls and middle aged mothers. A side note of the game would be an interesting point in the ‘games as film’ debate, namely where the performance and expression of the digital characters would be just as good as their flesh and blood counterparts. Plus, in the end, who wants to play a game where you’re the goody-two-shoes vampire who in between moping about and falling in love with clueless girls refuses to drink human blood? Some games have toyed with the idea of restricting blood consumption to keep your humanity alive, but that was because you’d turn into a ravening monster, not because you were a whiney pansy boy.
