A Sons of Anarchy Game Suddenly Sounds Like a Really Great Idea

When it doesn't win Game of the Year Sutter will take to twitter to yell at the world. Yawn.

If they turn SOA the Game into a longer Lost and the Damned type game that would work. Or it should be a Kart Racer in the veign of Crash Team Racing

Couldn't you just play GTA4:TLATD?

It will just be Road Rash 3D. Biff will be in it. He won't hit you unless you hit him first, then he'll whip out his night stick. Also he will steal your woman at the end of the first part.

...I think I'm going to go play Road Rash now.

Get this man into contact with Double Fine! Polecats vs SAMCRO!

Having watched it just recently, I'd love to see the remaining plot of Carnivalè as a game.

I thought this was a really well written, entertaining read.

Wtf hell no keep it a show this game gon suck!

Hmm this could be good. I love the show after all.

So.... we're not getting a Sons of Anarchy kart racer?

@Jazzycola said:

Hmmm, I'd be interested though highly skeptical considering the history of games based on tv shows(or movies for that matter).

Edit: My copy of Road Rash got stolen a couple years ago and I could use another Road Rash game.

I think I have your copy. I have one for Genesis and I KNOW I never bought it.

Could be really cool. I'm looking forward to hearing more details

You had me at Road Rash-style vehicular combat.

@omghisam said:

Stealth based action, on motorcycles! Escort missions, on motorcycles! Fetch quests, on motorcycles! I'm talking about the show, not the game.

Yeah, but all the quest dialogue is ill.

@Begilerath said:

Never watched the show but, by the description given, I agree with this guy:

@SlightConfuse said:

didn't rockstar do that with Lost and Damned?

I liked lost and the damned; it was entertaining, if not highly steeped in tropes and cliche, as are most rockstar games

Awesome, I've been really wanting another good biker gang game after watching SoA and playing Lost and Damned.

Never watched the show but, by the description given, I agree with this guy: 
 
@SlightConfuse said:

didn't rockstar do that with Lost and Damned?

Stealth based action, on motorcycles! Escort missions, on motorcycles! Fetch quests, on motorcycles! I'm talking about the show, not the game.

The show is very good, would be nice to see how it translates into a game, but we all know that these Tv series based games rarely come about. Remember the Heroes and Dexter based games that were meant to be in development.

@SlightConfuse: yeah, thats what i thought too.

i think it came out during the first or second season. i remember watching the show and playing through it at the same time.

Hmmm, I'd be interested though highly skeptical considering the history of games based on tv shows(or movies for that matter).

Edit: My copy of Road Rash got stolen a couple years ago and I could use another Road Rash game.

I've said it before I'll say it again Ron Pearlman looks like he needs to be in porn. Just sayin. Look at all the B rated Movie Paraodies he's done.

Kurt Sutter plays games and genuinely seems to care about their quality. A while back on Twitter he tweeted at Rockstar that they'd better not fuck up Max Payne 3 (his words) because he's realllly looking forward to it.

Whether or not this ultimately translates into a good SOA game is a whole other issue, but at least we can feel confident knowing that this guy actually gives a crap about gaming.

Also, September can not get here fast enough... I need more Sons of Anarchy on my TV right NOW!

didn't rockstar do that with Lost and Damned?

I love that tv show, watched all episodes, one of my favorites

This could end up being amazing in the right hands, or a horrible disaster, we'll see but I don't think anything is ever gonna come out of this

I haven't seen this show, but I've been wanting to play a biker game ever since I read about Ride to Hell (which I don't think will ever come out). I always need more meth in my games.

Interesting.

A while back, rumors started kicking around that a game based on Sons of Anarchy, FX's hit series about SAMCRO, a motorcycle club that tussles weekly with rival gangs, drug runners, white supremacists, and all manner of other shady characters, was in the works. Unfortunately, those rumors centered around a social, browser-based game. While a version of Mafia Wars with bikers and meth dealers sounds basically reasonable conceptually, it's also not something I would particularly want to play.

So color me perhaps overly excited given the actual number of details available that the direction of this Sons of Anarchy game appears to have changed. Showrunner Kurt Sutter, well-known for just kind of saying whatever the hell is on his mind via various online platforms, took to Twitter recently to provide an update on where the game currently stood. From his description, the focus has shifted to a full-fledged, console-based game, and "not some slapcrap browser MP thing." His words, not mine.

The reason for the shift had to do with quality, it seems. Sutter described the original social game concept as something he "wanted to love," but said it ultimately felt "rushed and unsatisfying." Sutter has evidently been meeting with publishers recently, and stated that he, FX, and parent company FOX are all committed to making this new console game happen.

When you think about popular TV shows that could potentially make the jump to the video game space in a quality way, Sons of Anarchy actually seems like kind of an obvious choice. The question, of course, is what kind of game befits the kind of territorial action the show has built itself around? Open world action game? Road Rash-style vehicular combat? Meth eradicating puzzle platformer? Man, these ideas practically write themselves.