Could a Doctor who game work for 7th gen?

[arc101]

Could a doctor who game work, and if so, in what style, FPS, RTS, RPG?
I think it could only in a FPS, like the 1990's game, but i want one that it is better and not for PC and for XBOX or PS3,do you?

 

[Aura Guardian]

Trauma Center. Wii and DS

 

[Ben Legend]

A Doctor Who game would be good, but I can't imagine how it would work.

Although, if we did a Top Trump one, that would work.

 

[Thyunda]

I think it could work in a platform/adventure style, maybe with some puzzler elements.
An FPS wouldn't really work. Especially since the Doctor avoids violence, and so the only thing you could do is point a sonic screwdriver at things.

 

[Ben Legend]

Trauma Center. Wii and DS

This made me chuckle.

 

[Chipperz]

An RTS based on the Time War would be pretty cool, with Daleks and Time Lords shooting the crap outta each other with mental laser blast... Things.

Doctor Who could also bring back the Point-and-click adventure games, if they were done well...

 

[Aura Guardian]

Trauma Center. Wii and DS

This made me chuckle.

Had to say it. Ha ha.

 

[PeterDawson]

Given I only recall seeing the Doctor holding a weapon twice with a threatening manner, and FPS wouldn't work. Maybe a first person stealth game like Thief, only its also focused more heavily on puzzles than combat.

 

[Anachronism]

As much as I would like to see one, I don't think it's going to happen. Even if they did make one, it almost certainly wouldn't be on consoles. You sure as hell couldn't make it an FPS, because the Doctor hates guns, and you couldn't make it an RTS because there wouldn't be enough people involved. Unless, of course, you made a Time War RTS, which, I admit, would be pretty damn sweet.

I think the only genre it would work well enough to do the TV series justice would be as a point-and-click adventure, so it would have to be on PC. The advantage of it being that particular genre would be that it would allow for the strong story we would expect from a Doctor Who game, and it would obviously have puzzle-solving sections, which would be much more in keeping with the feel of the TV series than shooting your way through things.

So basically, they could make a Doctor Who game this generation, but it wouldn't be on consoles, and the only way they could do it justice would be to make it part of a genre that hardly anyone plays any more. It's a nice idea, but not really commercially viable.

 

[arc101]

I think it could work in a platform/adventure style, maybe with some puzzler elements.
An FPS wouldn't really work. Especially since the Doctor avoids violence, and so the only thing you could do is point a sonic screwdriver at things.

There was a 1997? PC game (doctor who) that was FPS and wasn't violent, but you could use specialist weaponry of all the creatures.
Also, doctor who has been violent, the gut explosion in Brain of Morbius, and also I think it is the revenge of the cybermen where Litten gets his hands crushed on camera

 

[Sindre1]

I wrote my ideas here http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.104609
Post 28. What do you guys think?

 

[arc101]

Given I only recall seeing the Doctor holding a weapon twice with a threatening manner, and FPS wouldn't work. Maybe a first person stealth game like Thief, only its also focused more heavily on puzzles than combat.

Are you thinking of the new series or old?

 

[McMo0^]

An RTS based on the Time War would be pretty cool, with Daleks and Time Lords shooting the crap outta each other with mental laser blast... Things.

Doctor Who could also bring back the Point-and-click adventure games, if they were done well...

See this would a good period to cover seeing as no one really knows what happened there. But of course from what i've read about it was more of a war using space and time itself as a weapon. Though the concept is still awesome.

 

[Spyalt]

Trauma Center. Wii and DS

He said a doctor who game not a doctor game.

 

[Spyalt]

I really doubt it.

 

[arc101]

I really doubt it.

But it has been done

 

[The Shade]

Play as Leela - then you can throw knives at things.

But really, the point-and-click adventure game sounds like a good idea. As long as it was done well, that could be really mint. TARDIS...AWAY!!!!

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Trauma Center. Wii and DS

You misread the title methinks...

And personally, no, adaptions rarely work.

 

[Anachronism]

I think it could work in a platform/adventure style, maybe with some puzzler elements.
An FPS wouldn't really work. Especially since the Doctor avoids violence, and so the only thing you could do is point a sonic screwdriver at things.

There was a 1997? PC game (doctor who) that was FPS and wasn't violent, but you could use specialist weaponry of all the creatures.
Also, doctor who has been violent, the gut explosion in Brain of Morbius, and also I think it is the revenge of the cybermen where Litten gets his hands crushed on camera

He didn't say "Doctor Who isn't violent"; he said "the Doctor avoids violence". While it's true that in pretty much every episode of Doctor Who, someone is going to die, the Doctor himself never uses violence if he can avoid it. Off the top of my head I can't think of a time he's used a gun, and even in Genesis of the Daleks, when he had the opportunity to prevent their creation and save untold millions of lives, he was still reluctant, because it would mean committing genocide.

 

[internutt]

You're a bit late to the party.

There was a Doctor Who game released about a year or so ago.

It was a card based video game. Top Trumps.