Ever wanted to play a game based on Shakespeare? How about Melville?<\/p>\n
Well now you can!<\/a> ” Great Books Games aims to develop gaming franchises centered about rich stories contained in the Great Books.” And they will start with Dante’s Inferno<\/i>.<\/p>\n This isn’t real, but it should be. A game based on Red Badge of Courage<\/i>? Don’t we have that with Sid Meier’s Gettysburg<\/i>? How would you capture Hamlet<\/i> in a game? It’s like a grand love letter to overambitious game designers around the world.<\/p>\n I love how they trumpet the educational value: “GBG games will have great educational value: as long as kids\/teens are shooting\/flying\/racing, why not expose them to classical art and literature?”<\/p>\n Hilarious.<\/p>\n I can imagine the Inferno<\/i> game now.<\/p>\n “YOU ARE IN A ROOM OF RIGHTEOUS PAGANS. WILL YOU SMITE THEM?” YES<\/b> If they borrow from Daikatana<\/i>, you’ll probably get killed if Virgil gets stuck on a doorway. And what exactly will you be doing here? I know I asked for religion<\/a> in games, but medieval Catholicism isn’t quite what I expected.<\/p>\n
\n“SORRY. THEY ARE ALREADY DEAD.”<\/p>\n