Seeing as Batman AA reminded people that comic book games can work, I figured we could discuss which comics deserve a good game treatment.
I'll start:
DMZ - Vertigo Comics
The story about a civil war torn US, focusing on main character, newbie photojournalist Matty Roth, who gets dropped into ground zero (NYC is the line between the US and the defected rebels), the comic shows the gritty reality for the people who live in the cross-fire of a brutal military conflict.
Matty soon gets stranded as the rest of the news crew with him parishes in an explosion caused by defector terrorists. He quickly has to learn how to survive in such a dangerous environment, learning the various cliques that have formed within the DMZ. Having befriended a medic who lives nearby, she shows him the ropes in the hopes that he might report the real story of the people who live there (the news outlet that Matty works for keeps a pretty tight lid on info outside, so that the public thinks the war is one-sided).
He sets up shop in an abandoned apartment with the gear the studio sent him in with, and sets out to tell the real story of the war.
It could easily work as a genre blender, with photo elements ala dead rising, shooter elements (there are plenty of classes they could come up with in this universe) and platforming/freerunning segments.
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