Da Vinci Go
It's in stores now, folks.
Published: May 19, 2006
If there's one thing we love here at TPS, it's a good adventure. A good adventure book, a good adventure movie and especially a good adventure game, which is, sadly, in extremely short supply. Adventure games were once the bread and butter of the industry. PC developer/publishers like LucasArts and Sierra On-Line made some absolutely killer adventure games (and plenty of sequels), but as graphics have matured and tastes moved towards something that's a little more bang-bang, the adventure genre has all but died a slow death.
We're not stupid enough to think that The Da Vinci Code is the savior of the adventure genre on consoles, but we do hope deep down that it might just rekindle some of that spark that the movie seems to rather keen on hitting with its mix of puzzle solving and action bits. And really, Dan Brown's high-adventure work of fiction (we don't care if he claims it is fact), serves as a pretty awesome license for a game. Or a game based on a movie based on a book, anyway.
“The Da Vinci Code video game expands upon the plot in the film and book, allowing gamers to experience new adventures and solve new puzzles,” detailed Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K. “The game takes players beyond anything they have seen or read.”
Well, now, that's a pretty lofty claim. The game does piggyback off the movie and game sequences for lengthier puzzles, the game lifts sets and storyline elements straight from the movie, features music by composer Winifred Philips, and, perhaps most promising of all, includes some advice from Broken Sword maestro Charles Cecil.
So we wait, then, for our copy to arrive, at which point we will plumb its depths to suss out whether or not it's a licensed dud or a real adventure game that just happens to use the license quite nicely. We're hoping for the latter, of course, but if you can't wait for us to play through the game, you could always run down to your nearest game store and pick up a copy. It's sitting there waiting for you right now. Woo hoo!
We're not stupid enough to think that The Da Vinci Code is the savior of the adventure genre on consoles, but we do hope deep down that it might just rekindle some of that spark that the movie seems to rather keen on hitting with its mix of puzzle solving and action bits. And really, Dan Brown's high-adventure work of fiction (we don't care if he claims it is fact), serves as a pretty awesome license for a game. Or a game based on a movie based on a book, anyway.
“The Da Vinci Code video game expands upon the plot in the film and book, allowing gamers to experience new adventures and solve new puzzles,” detailed Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K. “The game takes players beyond anything they have seen or read.”
Well, now, that's a pretty lofty claim. The game does piggyback off the movie and game sequences for lengthier puzzles, the game lifts sets and storyline elements straight from the movie, features music by composer Winifred Philips, and, perhaps most promising of all, includes some advice from Broken Sword maestro Charles Cecil.
So we wait, then, for our copy to arrive, at which point we will plumb its depths to suss out whether or not it's a licensed dud or a real adventure game that just happens to use the license quite nicely. We're hoping for the latter, of course, but if you can't wait for us to play through the game, you could always run down to your nearest game store and pick up a copy. It's sitting there waiting for you right now. Woo hoo!
