Smallville Video Game

[Preus]

I'd love for a Smallville video game to be made but it'd be best for it to be made after the series ends. Most of the game should focus on the series which would make it a pretty long game. As the game progresses you learn more about your abilities but you have to fight & figure out things with the abilities you currently have. Later on in the game you'd also be able to travel back & forth to the Fortress of Solitude & to Metropolis whenever you want. The game would feature the characters Eric Summers ('Leech'), Jeremiah Holdsclaw ('Talisman'), and General Zod ('Zod') among others. You'd also meet & team up with other heroes such as Bart, A.C, and the Martian Manhunter as well as a few others. The game's superspeed should be unique upon which you can control the speed upon which Clark moves. I'd love to be able to move so fast that everything else in the city is moving slow. They'd also have to make it where we can actually control Clark while he's running so we don't go crashing into every building in sight. If free roaming were to be in a Smallville game it'd definitely help us get some practice. If it were up to me I'd get Activision to make the game & if so, they could get the team that worked on the Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction video game. If they could assemble that team to make a Smallville video game, only good things could come of it. Plus, imagine being able to superjump like the Hulk in Hulk: Ultimate Destruction but you go even farther. I know that'd be sweet if it were to be done right. It is feasible that a Smallville game may be made. We did get a Justice League game afterall. Who's to say we won't get a Smallville video game after the series ends? I'd certainly love to see it, I just hope a video game company decides to pick it up & actually go through with making it.

[Xero Kaiser]

Smallville would make a terrible game. Superman in general makes for a terrible video game, so why would a version of superman that's light on action do any better?

[Preus]

Superman Returns & Superman: The Man of Steel were pretty good games. But, you can't say that Superman makes for a bad video game because the standards of the video game are based upon who have made the game. In other words, a good company equals a good game. Activision has done a great job on games for the Marvel characters & I bet that hardly no one thought that they could do that good of a job on any of the Marvel characters when they first began. If they could get a good company like Activision to make a Smallville game, it'd definitely be good.

[Xero Kaiser]

Both those games are ass. Especially Man of Steel. Out of all the superman games you could've named, I don't know why you're citing the one that's considered one of the worst games on it's platform. Should've used Shadow of Apokolips or something. I think that one managed to be half-decent instead of flat out trash


But, you can't say that Superman makes for a bad video game

Sure I can. Note the complete lack of any good Superman games


Activision has done a great job on games for the Marvel characters & I bet that hardly no one thought that they could do that good of a job on any of the Marvel characters when they first began.

That's because they haven't. Publisher =/= Developer. Direct your love towards Raven Software or Radical Entertainment

[Preus]

I've only played Returns & Man of Steel & I think that they were good games. Anyway, like I said, they'd have to get someone like Activision to make the game.

[K.O.V.G]

Superman would make a good game but not smallville the show sucks as it is.

[Agent Helix]

Would the X button be for "pout" or "look confused"?

[Preus]

I'd like for this to be a serious thread, not a thread for stupid comments.

Anyway, Activision could do justice to a Smallville game, especially if the team that made the recent Hulk game were to make it.

[StoneGold]

I'd like for this to be a serious thread, not a thread for stupid comments.

Anyway, Activision could do justice to a Smallville game, especially if the team that made the recent Hulk game were to make it.

Vivendi Universal did the Hulk game.

[Preus]

I know but I'm saying they should get the exact team of people that made the Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction game.

[Donald M.]

I'd like for this to be a serious thread, not a thread for stupid comments.



Well, that battle was lost the second you suggested a Smallville video game.

[Xero Kaiser]

I know but I'm saying they should get the exact team of people that made the Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction game.

Why? What works for one game won't work for another. Part of Hulk's fun is running around destroying the city. You think DC'll let anyone make a game about a murderous Superman?

[Preus]

No, but you're missing the point entirely. The team that made that game gave the game great free roaming and damn near perfect controls. If this game is going to be made we need a team that can actually deliver. Nobody ever said anything about a murderous Superman.

[Black Atom]

I think the point is Smallville is pretty much devoid of all the elements that make Hulk: UD or even a regular Superman game (in theory) fun. Unless you made it like an old Nintendo game, where the play mechanics have nothing
to do with the actual source material (remember when Marty had to run around collecting clocks in Back to the Future?), Smallville the game is going to be unappealing no matter who makes it.

[Preus]

I don't believe that. Like I said, if a good company makes the game, it'll more than likely be good. The game would just need A LOT of work done though.

[SuperSaiyaMan12]

Superman would make a good game but not smallville the show sucks as it is.
Superman is a curse now in video games. No good games have been above average, most are in the extremely terrible pile.

[Xero Kaiser]

The team that made that game gave the game great free roaming and damn near perfect controls.

You know what a lot of games do wrong? Giving you a ton of space and absolutely nothing to do with it. Free roaming games are only good if you've got content to fill it with and actually give some freedom to the player. So what exactly would a free roaming game based on a show with almost no action/fighting in it let you do? Hulk UD only had "great" free roaming because you could terrorize the city, take that out and it would've sucked. Good free roaming gives you freedom. But a Superman game could never have the freedom that GTA or Oblivion have


The game would just need A LOT of work done though.

So much work that it'd barely resemble the show, which makes basing a game around it pointless

[Preus]

Just because the show barely has fighting in it doesn't mean they wouldn't be able to make the encounters more interesting in the game. Also, I never said it should have so much work done to it that it should barely resemble the show. I'm saying that they should work on the game to make it where we won't have sloppy controls & so that we'll be able to control Clark whenever he runs or jumps.

[scottv]

IJ am going to have to agree with the general consensus that the game would be boring. I like the TV show but I don't think that it would make a good game because there isn't enough action.

[Preus]

In the game all they'd have to do is change it up a bit to make sure that the game would have tons of action in it.

[John Nowak]

No, but you're missing the point entirely. The team that made that game gave the game great free roaming and damn near perfect controls. If this game is going to be made we need a team that can actually deliver. Nobody ever said anything about a murderous Superman.

That's a good point. I'm a huge fan of the free-roaming playground aspects of Mercenaries, Spider-Man 2, and Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.

[Preus]

I think that to pull off this game it'd take at least three years to complete. That is, if they want to do everything the right way so we don't end up with a half completed game.

[Huh?]

Preus,

What exactly do you envision a "Smallville Game" being about? What kind of game is it? Role playing, Side-scroll, top-down etc.

Personally, I don't think there is a good game anywhere in that source material. Besides the lack of action (which is a big problem) there is also a total lack of fun potential plots, not to mention only 2 characters on the show that will make for good game characters.

Can you picture someone saying: "I wanna be Zoe!"

I know you want this to be a serious thread, but it is hard to see this as serious without any idea what you think the game should be. Because on the face of it, it is hillarious. I feel like this game would be as good as say... "The Cosby Show: The Videogame" which as we all know they didn't make because they couldn't get the patterns on Cliff Huxtables sweaters right.

[Preus]

The game would be based on the series & would feature the main storylines & some of Smallville's meteor freaks as villains. You'd also earn new powers as the story progresses.

[smallville4eva]

I think it should be like a role-playing game where you have to walk around and try and work out who the bad guy is, what they know about you, what they can do, what they want, etc. And then each level should end with a big chase/face-off with the villain.
If you can earn enough points when fighting the villain you earn a chance for a new ability which then activates a mini-game to learn it. for example: if you earned heat vision you would have to press a certain combination of buttons to set fire to a scarecrow (like in the show) and from then on would be able to activate it with one button.
Also if you encounter an area in the game where you need a specific ability to pass you would have to go back and redo an earlier level until you have earned that ability.

What do you think?:)

[Bloopinator]

Why make a sucky Smallville game that's gonna be even suckier than Superman games? If you can't make Superman work there's no way that anyone can make Smallville work, I mean there's even LESS things to work with when it comes to Smallville. Would never work dude, sorry.

[Arune Singh]

Would Lana be the big boss in this game? Or would it all turn into a dating sim?

And the fights would suck. You'd have buttons for "get hit" or "toss person into wall and not use rest of powers."

[Preus]

Just because they just toss each other around in the show doesn't mean that have to be how the game goes. As the story in the game progresses you should gain more fighting experience.