Poll: A Doctor Who video game?

[WinkyTheGreat]

My girlfriend an I are both fans of the new Doctor Who series. We were having a discussion a couple of weeks ago about a Doctor Who video game. I've been thinking about it and I'm not sure just how possible it would be. Most games these days are very action oriented and usually have some kind of enemies that must be defeated (usually by means of death). As the Doctor isn't a fan of killing, I'm not entirely sure how possible a game would be. So I submit this question to you, fellow escapists. Would a fun and satisfactory Doctor Who game be possible? (If you think so please post why you think that way. I would like to hear other ideas.)

 

[Sir Ollie]

Yes but only if Tom baker does the voice acting

 

[Ulti_dolt]

There have been Doctor who games in the past,so yes it is possible.

 

[WinkyTheGreat]

There have been Doctor who games in the past,so yes it is possible.

Were they any good? I hadn't hear of any.

 

[Ulti_dolt]

They were mostly on the older consoles and by old I mean right at the beginng of Gaming history.I would'nt know if they were any good because I've never played them.

 

[captainwolfos]

I reckon it would be more suited for a Lego game. Thinking of a 'decent' Doctor Who game makes me think of something along the lines of 'you and a companion use whatever sources are available to get from A to B', and considering the Doctor always has a companion, and he always seems to make something MacGyver like in at least every episode, I think it seems a decent concept.

But that could be me, and I do rather enjoy the Lego games XD
Mindless Lego destruction, ftw.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

There have been Doctor who games in the past,so yes it is possible.

Were they any good? I hadn't hear of any.

Attack of the Graske [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Graske]
Dalek Attack [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek_Attack]
Doctor Who: Top Trumps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Trumps:_Doctor_Who]

There was also a Microprose game back on the Beeb I think....sometime about 1980.

But the best of a bad bunch has to be Destiny of the Doctors [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_of_the_Doctors]


It's not great but some of the Anthony Ainley's bits make John Sims look like an amateur.


Unfortunately RTD wouldn't know a good idea if it smacked him round the back of the head, or he'd never have thought of Tosswood.

 

[Archemetis]

I could imagine it being like the old Discworld games... Or Broken Sword, But with a slight bit more urgency to get on with things...
Y'know what with the world usually being in trouble...

Although I don't if point and click adventure games are really a Genre that the gaming comunity even take muhc notice of anymore...

 

[oliveira8]

Nah. It had to be a sandbox game first of all.

I mean...why play a game about an Alien that has a machine that can travel anywere in space and time, if you cant do the travelling bit?

 

[Archemetis]

Nah. It had to be a sandbox game first of all.

I mean...why play a game about an Alien that has a machine that can travel anywere in space and time, if you cant do the travelling bit?

Because once the Tardis gets wrapped up in an event in time it cannot go anywhere (at least that's what they say on the show) So really it'd be like spiderman if the citizens in trouble HAD to be saved...

 

[The Cheezy One]

it would burn in cop-out hell
sorry people, if it was good, it could work, but it wouldnt be
they would make some daleks appear to appeal to long term who-ists, then put it on the shelves

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Personally, probably not, but it'd still be nice to see a good Doctro Who game hit the consoles.

A point-and-click might work, albeit not in the current generation of console gaming, or an adventure game of a similar ilk, but I fear that it would rapidly degenerate into mindless puzzle solving, interspersed with flashes of action as you control Jack Harkness trying to hold off the Daleks.

 

[TobyMobias]

I had an idea in 2008 for a Dr. Who Wii game after hearing a similar discussion on a fanboard. My idea was playing as various Dr. Who characters in a time-crossing battle against the usual suspects (daleks, cybermen, autons, Master, or some combination thereof). The Wiimote could be used as the Sonic Screwdriver for puzzles and things like blowing things up or opening doors, while it and the Nunchuck can be used for minigames like piloting the TARDIS. An FPS level/minigame could be done as either Captain Jack or as a redshirted UNIT soldier ("five rounds rapid"?). I imagined this game in mind with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and some of the surviving Doctors doing cameos or meeting each other (like Paul McGann, who I thuroughly enjoyed in the film, being the only really cool thing besides the Steampunk TARDIS and Master Snake).

 

[oliveira8]

Nah. It had to be a sandbox game first of all.

I mean...why play a game about an Alien that has a machine that can travel anywere in space and time, if you cant do the travelling bit?

Because once the Tardis gets wrapped up in an event in time it cannot go anywhere (at least that's what they say on the show) So really it'd be like spiderman if the citizens in trouble HAD to be saved...

Doctor Who is filled with plot holes anyway...Just be imaginative and make a bunch of time periods/planets that didnt show up in the show, and make it possible to go there. A linear story would ruin the Dr.Who persona. The show is about an alien travelling to diferent places in diferent time periods.

You could have the planet were you would fight the Daleks, another the Cyberman etc etc etc.

 

[bindox]

Absolutely would be a good game. Just because of the nature of the show, in all its incarnations, lends to an endless variety of worlds and creatures, as well as playable races.

 

[WinkyTheGreat]

I had an idea in 2008 for a Dr. Who Wii game after hearing a similar discussion on a fanboard. My idea was playing as various Dr. Who characters in a time-crossing battle against the usual suspects (daleks, cybermen, autons, Master, or some combination thereof). The Wiimote could be used as the Sonic Screwdriver for puzzles and things like blowing things up or opening doors, while it and the Nunchuck can be used for minigames like piloting the TARDIS. An FPS level/minigame could be done as either Captain Jack or as a redshirted UNIT soldier ("five rounds rapid"?). I imagined this game in mind with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and some of the surviving Doctors doing cameos or meeting each other (like Paul McGann, who I thuroughly enjoyed in the film, being the only really cool thing besides the Steampunk TARDIS and Master Snake).

That's actually not a bad idea at all. Just a matter of how they would fit everything together

 

[SquirrelPants]

I had an idea in 2008 for a Dr. Who Wii game after hearing a similar discussion on a fanboard. My idea was playing as various Dr. Who characters in a time-crossing battle against the usual suspects (daleks, cybermen, autons, Master, or some combination thereof). The Wiimote could be used as the Sonic Screwdriver for puzzles and things like blowing things up or opening doors, while it and the Nunchuck can be used for minigames like piloting the TARDIS. An FPS level/minigame could be done as either Captain Jack or as a redshirted UNIT soldier ("five rounds rapid"?). I imagined this game in mind with David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and some of the surviving Doctors doing cameos or meeting each other (like Paul McGann, who I thuroughly enjoyed in the film, being the only really cool thing besides the Steampunk TARDIS and Master Snake).

That's an epic idea.

It could be an adventure game, as well, although a more traditional one. Seems to me that a point-and-click adventure would work quite well on the Wii.

 

[Sindre1]

The Doctor would have to be a scripted NPC.
You would play a new character (one-time companion)

Also new planet, if not earth, and new bad-guys.
But still the same old DW "feeling"

And the DW-team would have had to work closely with a well established and good game-company that already has made games with good story. Like Valve. Or not Valve, if it was anything else than a first-person game. Platform; Double-Fine probably.

 

[teisjm]

No.
Movie-to-game almost always = shit, so the same will prolly be true for movie like series

 

[Sindre1]

No.
Movie-to-game almost always = shit, so the same will prolly be true for movie like series

Movie-to-game is almost always bad becose they try to follow the same story.
In DW you can go anywhere, anytime.
Movie-to-game games are also produced in a hurry, to get it out in time for the movie.
It CAN be done rigth. If they only try hard enuff.