Michael Phelps is a US Olympic Swimmer who recently unveiled he has his own game coming to be published by 505 Games, Phelps also made an appearance in a Guitar Hero: World Tour ad.
Kotaku's Mike Fahey posted up some new details on the upcoming Michael Phelps video game. If you remember, this was the game that was first mentioned back in a 60 Minutes profile on the Olympic swimmer, but hard details haven't really surfaced.
The last bit of news we got was that 505 Games, a publisher largely known for... nothing whatsoever here in the States, would be publishing the title. Up until this point, the company seems to be a PAL territory version of D3 or Majesco or something, handling publishing and distribution for a lot of smaller games like Cooking Mama, Harvest Moon, and the Simple 2000 series of budget games. The company recently opened a US branch.
So, we all sort of joked about the Michael Phelps game and talked about how swimming games are awful, so the game should be some sort of ridiculous over-the-top action game. While 505 hasn't come out and said what the game will be, Kotaku's got this quote...
“Swimming will be a part of it, but it won’t be set in an Olympic pool going back and forth,” said Adam Kline, president of 505 Games, the company releasing the series. “This is a pure action game.”
Well OK then! Martial arts-focused swimming game in which Phelps uses his NASA-designed swimsuit to fight crime confirmed? Yeah, I've got nothing here other than to say that it's probably smart that they're not making a swimming game.
Then there's this:
“We will spend a very pretty penny in marketing this project because it’s important to us,” Kline said. “We believe it’s the next Tiger Woods project. ... It could be here for the next 10 years.”
Not to point out the obvious, but Tiger Woods is a golfer. And the games he stars in? Golf games. They call that a "slam dunk" in the business of doing business, folks. Taking a swimmer guy who has sort of already started to fade from our collective memory and getting him to star in some sort of game that isn't all about the thing he became famous for isn't anything like what EA's done with Tiger.
So left with these details, I can only conclude that this game will be one to watch for 2009. Not necessarily because I believe in the game's quality, but because if the publisher is already making these types of wild statements with nothing to show for it, imagine the nonsense they'll start spewing when they actually have a game to show. Can't wait.
Kotaku's Mike Fahey posted up some new details on the upcoming Michael Phelps video game. If you remember, this was the game that was first mentioned back in a 60 Minutes profile on the Olympic swimmer, but hard details haven't really surfaced.
The last bit of news we got was that 505 Games, a publisher largely known for... nothing whatsoever here in the States, would be publishing the title. Up until this point, the company seems to be a PAL territory version of D3 or Majesco or something, handling publishing and distribution for a lot of smaller games like Cooking Mama, Harvest Moon, and the Simple 2000 series of budget games. The company recently opened a US branch.
So, we all sort of joked about the Michael Phelps game and talked about how swimming games are awful, so the game should be some sort of ridiculous over-the-top action game. While 505 hasn't come out and said what the game will be, Kotaku's got this quote...
“Swimming will be a part of it, but it won’t be set in an Olympic pool going back and forth,” said Adam Kline, president of 505 Games, the company releasing the series. “This is a pure action game.”
Well OK then! Martial arts-focused swimming game in which Phelps uses his NASA-designed swimsuit to fight crime confirmed? Yeah, I've got nothing here other than to say that it's probably smart that they're not making a swimming game.
Then there's this:
“We will spend a very pretty penny in marketing this project because it’s important to us,” Kline said. “We believe it’s the next Tiger Woods project. ... It could be here for the next 10 years.”
Not to point out the obvious, but Tiger Woods is a golfer. And the games he stars in? Golf games. They call that a "slam dunk" in the business of doing business, folks. Taking a swimmer guy who has sort of already started to fade from our collective memory and getting him to star in some sort of game that isn't all about the thing he became famous for isn't anything like what EA's done with Tiger.
So left with these details, I can only conclude that this game will be one to watch for 2009. Not necessarily because I believe in the game's quality, but because if the publisher is already making these types of wild statements with nothing to show for it, imagine the nonsense they'll start spewing when they actually have a game to show. Can't wait.
Michael Phelps: Turd in the Bathtub. They should make a Nintendogs type game in which you raise and train Michael Phelps from birth to Olympic dominance. Fact: Michael Phelps is dumber than the average domestic dog.
Wait. A. Minute. I got it! Michael Phelps stars in an underwater, "sandbox" (no pun intended) action-adventure game in which he fights crime and defends corral with his dolphin cohorts! We could call it...
They should remake Ecco the Dolphin for the Genesis and sub in a Phelps sprite but keep it otherwise exactly the same. They should also rename it to Fuckface the Human Being.
bioware is a CANADIAN games company, so maybe micheal phelps is only a PART of the action. ie: A canadian guy who is you the player runs around with a gun (saying aboot alot, instead of ABOUT, O-U-T not O-O-T!) in hand for whatever reason, the planet is under threat from the wind or something stupid like that, and you must run around killing every blow of wind that you can feel, LMAO!, and maybe you shoot micheal phelps and kill him "ACCIDENTALLY" while you were trying to shoot the wind, lmao. Becuase let's face it, Canada didn't do great in the olympics, so they blame micheal phelps for everything. (BTW, I'm only joking, I don't even know any Canadian's so that means I don't mind them one way or the other.)
I mean for me this action game now sounds AWESOME! lol. What do you guys think?
Media is trying SOOO HARD to make Phelps marketable, but the bottom line is, he is absolutely ATTROCIOUS in front of the camera.
He has a stupid looking smile and his ADD reallllly shows during interviews.
He is boring and a bit awkward, and sometimes painfully hard to listen to...like when he was on Jay Leno.
All that aside, i think he is still awesome and what he did at the olympics was incredible, winning all of those medals and smashing records while he was at it. But please people, stop trying already, its not gonna work. This guy is good at one thing, and one thing only: swimming.
Scooper said:
"Cool. The Olympics are nice. It is a shame they are once every 4 years, it should be once every 400 years."
what!? i wish it was every year, or every 2 years. Olympics are great. And these Olympics this year were one of the most exciting. So many amazing moments. From Usain Bolt to Michael Phelps, very entertaining.
anyways, this game is being made by a budget company, that should mean disaster immediately. reminds me of that studio stellar star (i think) that made Big Rigs! LOL
I'm pretty sure that this game is not only going to be the greatest thing since Big Rigs and Pinkie's Pie Party, but I'm also pretty sure that I just jizzed in my pants from reading this news story. How could anything be more amazing than this? HOW?!
......wait, I just realized that the publisher might read that and not see the sarcasm in it! EEK!!! THAT'S WHY THEY KEEP MAKING THESE KINDS OF GAMES!!! THERE'S NO SARCASM ON THE INTERNET!!!
Still hoping that someone working high up on this game listens to the Bombcast recently involving Phelps vs Hitler, that will get people buying the game. Hell even just pitting Phelps vs Costner from Waterworld on one level & have the next level with Phelps underwater racing/fighting Aquaman, Sub-Mariner & Ecco the dolphin will sell the game. It sounds like the game that 505 Games wants to do most likely have the most action in the cinematic behind the title screen before the game starts, then it's all downhill from there.
Oh God. 'Cause it's not like I was tired of seeing his face everywhere (like his stupid cameos in shows like Entourage) already... A "pure action game" featuring Michael Phelps. The apocalypse is coming. And I say let the world burn.
a michael phelps shark beat-em-up. your swimming around in an open world ocean, but there's a never-ending shark spawn that tries to eat him. Michael Phelps cannot be stopped by any old shark though, so you mash the X button for nonstop action and he beats them up. You gain new skills as you level up, and eventually he gains some sort of magic powers which allows him to shoot water bullets and turn the sharks into hamburger noses. Now naturally there will be bosses such as jaws, the kraken, lockness monster, and of corse poseiden, but to win the game you have to make a row of hamburger nosed sharks, then hop across them to get to klu klu land. then you win!
What he did was great but he wont be able to keep everyone's attention for long. In a year he is still gonna be riding his success? He needs to move beyond just his great time in the Olympics and to something else that keeps him in the spotlight, like a reality show? Maybe Swimming with the Stars? or do what Kurt Angle did and go into pro wrestling. I think this game might be a video game version of what a Baywatch video game would be, some swimming, some bad guys, and...Michael Phelps?
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