Platforms: Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Release date(s) Episode 1: March 4, 2009 Gameplay: The game lets players to have the chance take on the roles of either Rorschach or Nite Owl II in single player or cooperative multiplayer. Rorschach and Nite Owl are the only playable characters in the game's first episode, which comprises six "chapters." Cutscenes that look like animated comic panels, similar to those seen in the Watchmen motion comics released on iTunes, bookend each chapter. 2 of the film's actors, Patrick Wilson and Jackie Earl Haley, provide their voices for their characters Nite Owl and Rorschach, respectively. The game features a mix of beat-em-up and puzzle gameplay, with the two characters having different strengths and abilities. Rorschach is faster with unconventional attacks and makes use of improvised weapons like crowbars and chairs; Nite Owl is slower but has a solid martial arts method and uses technological abilities, such as "screecher bombs." The characters must work cooperatively to pass puzzles and defeat enemies. Plot: Spoiler Set in 1972during the Crimebusters (for the film adaptation, The Watchmen) era. The first chapter/part of the game is a tutorial taking place while Rorschach and Nite Owl infiltrate a prison. Big Figure, a villain from the comic book, appears in the game, as do other adversaries who are only mentioned or briefly shown in flashbacks in the original comic. Nite Owl's flying craft, Archimedes, appears in the game, but the player never has control over it during the game. An article online emphasizes the game's focus on teamwork between the two characters: in single-player mode, the AI controls the other character aside from the main character, while the game can be played in Local Co-op with two players as both characters. The article also mentions there will be no online Co-op mode. The End Is Nigh takes place during the Crimebusters era (renamed The Watchmen for the film adaptation), when Rorschach and Nite Owl II were crime-fighting vigilantes before the Keene Act passed in 1977. Upon hearing a police bulletin, Nite Owl and Rorschach make their way to Sing Sing prison to help quell the rioting that has erupted there. Once there, they find out the riots were a ruse to cover up the escape of The Underboss, a crime lord. They make their way to a bar, the Rumrunner, and question one of the patrons to find out who orchestrated the escape. They find out Jimmy the Gimmick was behind it, so they chase him down the docks to an abandoned amusement park. They corner him on the tracks of a roller coaster, where someone activates the carts to try and kill Jimmy. Nite Owl holds them back with his grappling hook but a mysterious sniper shoots the cable, causing the carts to fly right into Jimmy, causing him to be severly injured. Before his fall off the roller coaster , Jimmy managed to tell them the Underboss is in his old hideout in the sewers, so after calling an ambulance for Jimmy, that's where Nite Owl and Rorschach go. They don't find him, but they do find the missing FBI associate director, Mark Felt, tied up and bleeding heavily, seemingly tortured. He tells them that someone (who the heroes presume to be Underboss) means to kill two reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the would-be informers of the Watergate scandal. Upon leaving the sewers, Nite Owl and Rorschach are ambushed by the police, Rorschach chiming in that they've been set up. They fight their way through them to get to the construction site where Felt told them Underboss is, only to find that the reporters are already dead. Underboss claims he had nothing to do with it, that he was set up. The duo chases him up the construction site and manages to corner him, but the Comedian snipes him from afar. It turned out the Comedian was the mastermind behind all the events, which means the United States government was involved, as he works for them. Presumably to be concluded in the next installment. Anyone have any feelings for this? Honestly, I'm looking forward to this. I didn't see any topic about it, so I made this one. If one has already been made, a staff member can just delete/lock this.
Meh. I'd buy it if you could play as the other Watchmen, but it's limited to Rorscharch and Nite Owl, so it's not worth it.
Just a quick cash-in on the series' current popularity. Don't bother. I got bored from the demo after killing the 50th identical prisoner thug.
This thing would be awesome if it were around the $5-$10 range. $20 is just killing it. The demo was tons of fun, but after doing the same **** 50 times in a row it just got downright annoying. -Walk into room -Fight some thugs -Pull lever -Opens door to fight more thugs -Go through door to fight more thugs -Pull lever to open another door I think you get the picture.
The actual movie is terrible and so not worth the $20 for when it coems out on DVD. Wasn't worth the $7 for the movie ticket.
