Zack Snyder on 300: March to Glory
Videogames based on hit movies have pretty much always been around since Atari rolled out E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982. While a lot of them leaned more towards the “sucks so much I wanna tear my own eyes out” end of the videogame spectrum, a select few of them have actually garnered accolades from gamers.
If we’re going to base a tie-in videogame’s success on how favorably gamers reacted to it, then we could probably make a case for the PSP title 300: March to Glory. Perhaps one of the reasons why it translated so well from the big screen to the small (PSP) screen is that Zack Snyder, the guy who directed and wrote the screenplay for “300”, had a lot of input on the PSP title.
“They constantly kept us in the loop with the game’s progress, and would bring us builds of the game to show us the progress that they were making,” said Snyder in a recent interview with GameSpy. “And because I’m a gamer, and I play quite a bit, I wanted to make sure that we had something that felt like more of a game than a mere tie-in.”
So what’s next for 300? Snyder says that it could make the jump from the handheld PSP to the bigger consoles. “We’re thinking beyond just the PSP game, though,” he said. “In the long run, though, we’re really interested in releasing a bigger game for Xbox 360 or PS3, and that could be much further down the line, maybe two or three years from now.”
Via GameSpy
Videogames based on hit movies have pretty much always been around since Atari rolled out E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in 1982. While a lot of them leaned more towards the “sucks so much I wanna tear my own eyes out” end of the videogame spectrum, a select few of them have actually garnered accolades from gamers.
If we’re going to base a tie-in videogame’s success on how favorably gamers reacted to it, then we could probably make a case for the PSP title 300: March to Glory. Perhaps one of the reasons why it translated so well from the big screen to the small (PSP) screen is that Zack Snyder, the guy who directed and wrote the screenplay for “300”, had a lot of input on the PSP title.
“They constantly kept us in the loop with the game’s progress, and would bring us builds of the game to show us the progress that they were making,” said Snyder in a recent interview with GameSpy. “And because I’m a gamer, and I play quite a bit, I wanted to make sure that we had something that felt like more of a game than a mere tie-in.”
So what’s next for 300? Snyder says that it could make the jump from the handheld PSP to the bigger consoles. “We’re thinking beyond just the PSP game, though,” he said. “In the long run, though, we’re really interested in releasing a bigger game for Xbox 360 or PS3, and that could be much further down the line, maybe two or three years from now.”
Via GameSpy
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