Game adaptations don’t have to be terrible. But as Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan admits, bringing action from screen to console isn’t as easy as it sounds
I would have expected some drug-empire management game, maybe spliced with scenes from the show, or with scene-setting and dialogue from its writers. Or perhaps an interactive-movie tie-in along the lines of Charlie Brooker’s
, where your reactions send the story spinning off in different directions. It would be expensive, sure, but Netflix has never minded spending money.been attempts at Breaking Bad video games – but none have come to fruition. Gilligan is not a gamer himself, but he talks about his vision for a Grand Theft Auto-style adaptation of the show that was pitched but never happened.
Gilligan has run into a problem that video game creatives know well: making games is absurdly difficult, expensive and time-consuming. I am reminded of a quote from Frank Lantz of the NYU Game Center, which opened aat the V&A in 2018: “Making a game combines everything that’s hard about building a bridge with everything that’s hard about composing an opera. Games are basically operas made out of bridges.
Time and money are difficult problems to solve, no matter how much creative talent at your disposal. The most successful game adaptations tend to be the ones that aren’t time-sensitive: ones based on Tolkien, or the Marvel/DC universes, or the 2020 interpretation of
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