Hybrid Offering of the Watchmen: The End is Nigh Game

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Hybrid Offering of the Watchmen: The End is Nigh Game

Source:Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment

May 21, 2009

Just in from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment:

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced that the Watchmen: The End is Nigh videogame, based on the Watchmen film, will be offered in a retail Blu-Ray Hi-Def game and film hybrid, as well as additional retail and downloadable formats in North America. Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2, the second of two long-form, episodic action games will be released in conjunction with the Blu-ray Hi-Def and DVD of the Watchmen: Director’s Cut in July 2009.

Providing Watchmen fans with a variety of purchase options, the game will be offered in the following formats.

* Watchmen: The End is Nigh The Complete Experience is an innovative, retail Blu-ray Hi-Def game and film hybrid which will include Watchmen: The End is Nigh Parts 1 and 2 and the Watchmen: Director’s Cut on Blu-ray. This new cut of the action-packed blockbuster includes an additional 25 minutes of footage not seen in theaters only available on Blu-ray and DVD. The two-disc collectible set will also feature exclusive artwork in a premium package. The game will be playable on the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system which can also play the Blu-ray disc of Watchmen: Director’s Cut.

* Watchmen: The End is Nigh Parts 1 and 2 will now be available for the first time as a single game available for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

* Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2 will be available for download on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and for PlayStation®Network.

Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 1 was released in March 2009 as a downloadable game for Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Windows PC via download and on the PlayStation®Network.

Developed by Deadline Games A/S, Watchmen: The End is Nigh is a hardcore mature action brawler featuring bloody visceral combat in settings which are reminiscent of the film. Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 1 takes place more than a decade before the film’s main story, delving into the partnership of urban vigilantes Rorschach and Nite Owl before the hero-banning Keene Act. In Part 2, the duo team up again as Rorschach contacts Nite Owl to help solve the case of a missing girl, Violet Greene.

Patrick Wilson and Jackie Earle Haley, stars of the Watchmen film, also lend their voices to the respective roles of Nite Owl and Rorschach in both episodes of Watchmen: The End is Nigh. Both Rorschach and Nite Owl are playable characters and each features distinct combat abilities, as well as a collection of each of their own unique finishing moves — such as Rorschach’s Rage and the technical prowess of Nite Owl’s Owlsuit.

Watchmen: The End is Nigh features a split screen co-op multiplayer option in addition to a single-player experience with an A.I. partner. Staying true to the tone of the film on which it’s based, Watchmen: The End is Nigh features stunning graphics in moody settings mixed with brutal combat. Players can take on as many as twenty enemies at the same time in bloody, street-fighting gameplay action. The game contains nine chapters, built around events referenced in the film, allowing for hours of intense gameplay.

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Posted by: SamJackson on May 21, 2009 at 17:21:02

Er. The End is... Nigh or High? Those could be two completely different games...

Posted by: ohNoez on May 21, 2009 at 17:24:01

Um... I was joking about this a week ago but there actually being a video game for this scares me. What's the goal? I can see two options: 1) you go around trying to find out who killed the Comedian while avoiding muggers, the police, and a giant blue penis that comes out of nowhere and assaults the senses (at least 85 hit points damage) or 2) you walk around as big blue demolishing as many buildings as you can with said blue penis.

Posted by: Albino Pig on May 21, 2009 at 17:51:10

Watchmen is awesome! Who watches the watchmen, I do!

Posted by: D20 on May 21, 2009 at 17:58:34

The movie was amazing! Every second!

Posted by: better than all yalls on May 21, 2009 at 18:02:03

the end is high was just a stupid typo.
the end is nigh, is what the sign says that walter kovacs holds up.

dont you know anything about watchmen

Posted by: veritas on May 21, 2009 at 18:20:44

"half the stuff"...i'm not a complete idiot i just have bad grammer.

Posted by: Prozac-Pedro on May 21, 2009 at 18:37:09

watchmen kicked ass! I watch the watchmen! I even watch while they attempt rape.

Posted by: Honest Fan on May 21, 2009 at 18:43:00

Wow... that's aggresive.

The movie was fine, albeit would have done better with a PG-13 rating... Not complaining, just saying.
I've never seen a movie stick that close to the source material as this one. It was really impressive - frame by frame. Wow. I know, I know the ending was different, but it was fine. The movie was well worth my money and my three hours. I'll see it again on DVD.
I won't, however, buy or play the game.

Posted by: not the person everyone hates on May 21, 2009 at 20:03:47

its ok punisher91 when i was 11 i was half retarded also and did not like watchmen either, mainly because i had not read the comic or seen the movie . watchmen is brilliant and way over your head...

Posted by: Walter Kovacs on May 21, 2009 at 20:29:12

The Movie was great, I absolutely loved reading the comic when i was younger and i thought the movie delivered just as well as the comic........and 300 was a great movie!

Posted by: Revenger on May 21, 2009 at 23:11:20

"ya the end is high..... ON POT!!!"WOW!!!Is the youth of today that ignorant, unoriginal, and just plain dumb? Next time keep your opinions to yourself punisher91 because nobody wants to listen to them. Watchmen was too great for words, so do us all a favor and go see Night at the Museum 2.

Posted by: Snapper_Carr on May 21, 2009 at 23:24:52

*hurm* Seems to be mixed opinions on the movie. I enjoyed it. Faithful.

Computer game? We'll see if it pans out. I think the market will be limited.

Still...I actually have the old module for Watchmen from the DC Role-Playing game. It was set pre-1977, when the heroes were still active. Wasn't bad, really.

Posted by: bryan on May 21, 2009 at 23:32:09

I love how the internet is a place to express your opinions, unless you don't like what someone else's. In which case you tell them to keep their opinions to themselves and call them idiots. Way to prove people on message boards are anti-social, immature, opinionated *******s.

Posted by: Nexus Prime on May 22, 2009 at 04:09:29

The game was okay, but got kind of repetitive. I don't think I'll bother with buying the second half. It all depends on how much the whole package with the movie will cost.

Posted by: Leo Jussila on May 22, 2009 at 04:55:36

Just 25 minutes of additional footage? I thought we would get almost an hour...

Posted by: Leo Jussila on May 22, 2009 at 04:59:00

And btw, the game was fun as hell.

I mean, who doesn't want to be Rorschach and just kill every bad guy in sight! It's like he's The Punisher :D

Posted by: punisher91 on May 22, 2009 at 09:37:33

@ All my haters I've read Watchmen and i don't hate it. And beating on a kid is both cowardly and immature. Not the person who hates everybody and Revenger should go to an AA meeting. I can say whatever i want( Bill of Rights First Ammendment.) So why don't u go and jump off a building.

Posted by: Mantis on May 22, 2009 at 09:46:47

Sounds awesome will definitly pick up the PS3 game/blu-ray package.

Posted by: Psychoholic420 on May 22, 2009 at 10:09:44

I'm so pissed. I actually bought that piece of crap of a game. But now I woulda got it free when I bought the blu ray.... ANGER!!!!!! (LOUD NOISES)
anyway, at least I wont have to pay for ep. 2

Posted by: BIGW1966 on May 22, 2009 at 10:12:50

The Movie was great. 300 was good.

The game...not so much. It was violent like the film, but it was so repetitive. No special moves for each character and weak co-op.
I guess i was one of the people who didn't notice the "Big Blue penis after the first scene.
I knew it would be there and I just have no interest in penis to pay attention to it throughout a film.
My wife however kept referring to Dr. Manhatten as smurf d*ck.

Posted by: not the person everyone hates on May 22, 2009 at 10:53:33

nice punisher91, well sorry i apoplogize .but i am only 13

Posted by: im waldo on May 22, 2009 at 11:38:33

the movie was great, but for the video game the only pros are it has a good story, and rorshach has some pretty interesting brutal moves, but the cons are its has no replay value, its really short and gets repeditive real fast, its dark (and not in the good way you cant see **** in this game) i would buy watchmen on dvd, but i would wait until this game gets to around 5 dollars (because overall its a piece of shat game like most comic book movie video games) i know everything about the game because i just watched some guy play threw it on youtube, but i'll definatlly be buying the directors cut of watchmen.

imao now i know why their are so many stupied comments on this page because everyone here is like 12 or 13, well i guess it doesnt matter anyways because the general worlds IQ has lowered to about a 12 year olds.

Posted by: SmokinBandit on May 22, 2009 at 12:42:33

Great movie, cant wait to pick up the blu-ray. But I already played part1 of The End is Nigh on my PS3....Meh, it takes place before the events of the comics or movie and you just go around as either Roashach or NiteOwl beating the crap out of random gangsters and bikers. THe cut-scenes are animated comic style with voice-overs on them, kinda like the animated graphic novel. If your a bit of an old school gamer and liked games like streets of rage you'll probably like this game. THe only thing is that they seem to have spent ages getting the two main charecters looking great and the enviroments...but not really alot of time was spent on actual gameplay, people get stuck on things, there are cursed invisible walls, sometimes charecters dont do what you wanted them too in the fights. Its just a beat em' up...so dont expect much in terms of depth, there are portions where you have o split-up, which entails niteOwl lifting up a gate or something for Roashach to roll under and then he grapples up to a roof top, they run along for a min...usually dont fight anyone, or maybe a couple of guys, then meet up on the other side. If you play the game by yourself the enemies AI knows it and will concentrate only on whoever your playing as while your AI partner trys to fight one guy and your being assaulted in the anus by 15. Not worth the money really, but if it comes free with the movie on Blu-Ray then whos to complain...?

Just wish I would have known about this offer before I shilled out the $22.00 for the game on my PSN.

Posted by: Genius_Baby on May 22, 2009 at 21:02:14

Yeah, well I'm 2 months old and I hate anything that people like, why?Because I'm too young to understand everything, but old enough to express my hate for stuff! And why are you reading this-because of the Bill of Rights First Ammendment? so there!!!

Posted by: i hate not the person everyone hates on May 22, 2009 at 21:30:23

wow get a life and leave the kid alone Mr."not the person everyone hates" well i think its time to change your name...i am 14, only one year older, and you act like you are a 6 year old, grow some balls and get a life!

well sorry for being off subject this game looks great !i am buying this asap. i hope rorschach has some more cool things to say. the movie left alot of his parts out. i love how in the comic he just silently walks over and snaps the guys finger. why did they leave that out?... well this looks good and i hope its as good as the movie.

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