It's sad, although not that surprising, that they decided to make the Watchmen game a brawler. Even then, the concept might have been salvaged had they put someone like Goichi Suda on the project (although, when you really think about it, he'd probably feel more at home with The Invisibles). I suppose none of today's popular game genres make a particularly good fit for something as nuanced as Watchmen. RPGs might be a sole exception, but to make a quality RPG you need a lot of time and money so why bother when a quickly hacked-together brawler might turn out just as profitable, if not more so?

I can't forget the greatness that was Westwood's Blade Runner, a wildly ambitious adventure game that didn't shy away from the moral and philosophical issues presented in the movie. It even touched upon some themes from the book that were left out of the film version (then again, it also included a bit in which you had to shoot a giant rat in the sewers, but that was one of the few sequences that felt out of place). The best part is, the choice-making ability was firmly in players' hands (there were 14 or so different endings, although half of them were just minor variations), and that's precisely what made it such a potent experience. Only a game could deliver that.

Sure, there are more recent examples of great movie and comic book adaptations, such as the surprisingly good Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, but most of them had the advantage of being based on rather dumb source material. Oh well, at least we dodged that V for Vendetta platformer.

The series would've translated better to hour long episodes on HBO or Shotime in my opinion, but lots of people are going to see it and they'll enjoy it, and these are mostly people who've read the comics or people who've been told about how great it is by comic geeks and forced to read it before the movie comes out. Only a small percentage will have had no encounter with the book, and those people might come across someone like you or someone else who will vehemently suggest the reading the original book because that's what nerds do.

Still, I've read the script for the 1989 big screen adaptation. Nothing can be worse than that.

I really thing that Ethan Frome's Xtreme Tobogganing needs to be a browser game. “If you don't hit the next two markers, Mattie leaves for good! Too bad you don't have the balls!”

I have little confidence that Moore's work will come across in film, let alone in games. (the track trecond on this is not so good. though it should be pointed out that film– especially citizen Kane, fittingly enough– played a huge role in the evolution of comics. the idea of framing translates well) The basic problem is that Watchmen isn't really about combat, and the characters are more interesting when they're talking to each other than when they're hitting each other.

p.s. nice photoshop work

p.p.s. I think there is consumer demand for Ethan Frome's Xtreme Tobogganing.