I think most gamers have their idea of a perfect game that hasn’t been created yet. It is, in equal measures, both fun and frustrating discussing it. You know how amazing it would be to play because, being slight biased, it’s your idea, yet you also know it is unlikely to ever exist.
My ultimate game is not-so-loosely based on my near-perfect film. As the opening sequence begins to an eerie soundtrack, a bird’s eye view flies along a rugged, stormy coastline and approaches a gaudily lit funfair to settle on a weather beaten, paint chipped sign – “Welcome to Santa Carla Boardwalk”. Cue the opening strains of “Cry Little Sister”.
Yep, for those in the know my fantasy game is The Lost Boys. The movie was fantastic. I have seen it countless times. I’ve visited the Santa Cruz fairground it was filmed in twice and spent my teens puzzling over exactly why Star wouldn’t want to join David. It has a fab 80s soundtrack, Kiefer Sutherland, bikes, vampires, Kiefer Sutherland, the two Coreys, mullets and Kiefer Sutherland. That’s pretty hard to beat in my book. Needless to say – I’m a bit of a fan.
I’m a little fuzzy on the details but I’m thinking it has to be fairly free roaming. The option to explore Santa Carla and surrounding areas, alongside missions to be completed. The dialogue would be mozzarella ridden with quotes from the film and the A.I would be endearingly stupid, but not infuriatingly so.
The game is split in two, and you choose your side. Play as a vampire gang recruit and, alongside the main story missions, you get to speed around on your bike, enter races with mortals or the undead, scare locals or find yourself the odd neck to chow down on. Alternatively you could team up with Sam and the Frog Brothers to help save Michael, train yourself in vampire combat, steal Grandpa’s car or just hang out at the boardwalk and watch fantastically cheesy half naked sax musicians.
Multiplayer would include a battle between the two sides. The humans armed with holy water and stakes up against the flying, fang wielding vamps. Deaths will naturally be inventive and gory.
“I think I should warn you all, when a vampire bites it, it’s never a pretty sight. No two bloodsuckers go the same way. Some yell and scream, some go quietly, some explode, some implode, but all will try to take you with them.”
So, fangs for reading about my dream game. One thing I’m bloody positive about… this game certainly wouldn’t suck. In fact I’d be dying to get hold of it, and would positively bite your arm off to play it…
Okay, okay, sorry, I’ll get my coat.
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