Doctor Who video game coming soon.

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Permalink Reply by jampony on March 11, 2008 at 7:04pm

Oh dear lord please let it be released in the US. And please let it be good. Oh, and please let me be able to play it (I suck at action games, hopefully it'll be an adventure).

Thanks for that info, baff. You made my day! :)

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Permalink Reply by Mr. Fankles on April 5, 2008 at 4:48pm

Oh man that's a must have!

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Permalink Reply by Baff on May 6, 2008 at 3:21pm

Bad news. It seems it is little more than a children's card game (Top Trumps) where you get to play as and against Dr. who characters and monsters.

"The game is coming out for the PC, PS2, and Nintendo DS, and allows you to play as the Doctor, Martha Jones, fan-favorite Torchwood leader Captain Jack or any number of classic Whovian monsters in adventure mode, two-player head-to-head, or a variety of mini-games."

It is coming out in Britain on May 16 and may never get released in the US.

Here is someone's description of the card game:

"For those not in the know, Top Trumps is a rather popular card game in the UK and Ireland (well at least when I was a kid, its had its ups and down). It's essentially a guessing game. You buy a themed pack (could be anything from Top Gear, footballers, DC and Marvel Superheroes/Supervillians, Dinosaurs, Dr. Who etc.) and divide it up with the other players. Each person take the card at the top of the deck and one person selects a statistic on their card (statistics depend on the theme) and calls it out. Whoever has the card with the best statistic gets to win everyone else's card and be the one to call the next statistic. Continue until one person has all the cards, the "winner". It's a rather fun game (if the subject is something informative [e.g. Dinosaurs], it can be educational too), but honestly I'm not sure that its as appealing as an adult. There a lot of luck involved (though educated guessing can be fun) and little to no strategy. Come to think of it, playing with others is probably the games strongest attribute (for when they have a card that has four of the highest statistics and you call the fifth one). So I'm not sure there's a lot we can expect from the video game, except a wide variety of references."

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Permalink Reply by jampony on May 7, 2008 at 9:25am

Thanks for the update, baff. It's a shame the game is geared more towards children but it IS a family show so I guess it makes sense. Well, at least we still have the Lost game. I haven't gotten it, yet, but I hear good things about it.

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Permalink Reply by dug on October 16, 2008 at 4:33pm

if i actually go through the schooling i want to... i swear i'll do my damnedest to make a good dr. who game...
don't even wanna attempted something that important until i've made a couple games and know what i'm doing
100 %...

(the amount of challenges i have to over come... it'll be a while)

but the fact that it's a card game is just depressing... was hoping to get a little side story the show doesn't touch on...

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