For anyone hoping that Nolan might plunge deeper into the world he created with Inception in the form of a sequel, the filmmaker says… Maybe? But there will be a videogame: “I always imagined Inception to be a world where a lot of other stories could take place,” says Nolan. “At the moment, the only direction we’re channeling that is by developing a videogame set in the world.” He declined to elaborate on details or time table, only to say that he was developing the game with a team of collaborators and that it was “a longer-term proposition.” He calls the medium of videogames “something I’ve wanted to explore” — and certainly a veritable massive multiplayer online role playing game (as imagined by Carl Jung) would seem to be a perfect for the interactive, non-linear dream world of Inception. “As for [movie] sequels,” he says, “it’s not something I want to say no to, but it’s not something I’ve given a lot of thought about.”
Whatever it is, it will probably be crap. Movie makers either want far too much control or far too little, and have zero understanding. Unless you luck out with a reverent and competent dev team and publisher willing to go the extra mile to do it right, you are boned. This is the same deal with books to movie translation, except book writers rarely have any influence at all (for whatever reason).
Yea the concept is great but how these things gets executed is often far below what you would hope. I felt the same way about The Matrix and the potential for the games were great but there was no Matrix game that lived up to the promise. Hell even the 2 film sequels were subpar.
I’ve no doubt that with some input from Nolan and a top notch development house that this could be great but I’ll not get too excited about it just yet
The thing is, developers who want to do crazy shit don’t put their game in a realistic setting in the first place, and/or they just give their hero superpowers. Form follows function.
So the statement “It’s not often you get the kind of freedom a dreamscape offers.” isn’t particularly true.
It could just be a corridor shooter. Think about it. Nothing all that mind-bending takes place with the action elements of the movie. It’s all just gunplay. The scenery is the only thing that requires fantastic vistas. The zero-g hallway fighting has already been in games before. How many gamers said the mountaintop dream was just like a CoD level?