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Yet Another Thing We Can’t Wait For: The ‘Watchmen’ Video Game
Published 7/23/2008 by MTV Movies Team at MTV Movies Blog
... movie is still more than seven months away, but the hype machine around the graphic novel’s adaptation has successfully whipped most of us here in the Newsroom into a frenzy. As if that weren’t enough, Stephen Totilo just brought us a preview of the “Watchmen” video game, which he saw demonstrated at E3. The game’s story will serve as a sort of prequel to the movie’s action: Rorschach and Nite Owl fight their enemies in the dark alleys of an even darker version of the 1970s. Is it March yet? ...

‘Watchmen’ Fans Might Finally Have Something to Be Disappointed With: a ‘Watchmen’ Video Game!
Published 7/24/2008 at Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
... fans of the original graphic novel. Not in the trailer itself — which makes the movie look awesome, like a faithfully lensed, live-action version of the comic — but probably more in the fact that the guy who made 300 seems to have pulled it off and we'll have very little to complain about when this thing hits theaters next March (even if super-grumpy nerds like us still sort of wish we could've seen Paul Greengrass's version). But fear not! Now, MTV reports that a video-game adaptation of Watchmen is in the works. And when was the ...