Who Plays the 'Watchmen'
The Little Screen gets Watchmen love with "The End is Nigh"
There's a simple, reciprocal rule in the entertainment industry. Don't make movies based on video games. Don't make video games based on movies. Why this paradoxical yet nearly flawless symmetry exists may, infact, be the best proof for the existence of a higher power at work, but every once in a while, just like that certain doctor on a certain Beagle, some one comes along a throws a monkey wrench into the whole, peacefully grinding works. While Starbreeze's The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay may be the Darwin of video games in my increasingly muddled metaphor, it's quite possible that Watchmen: The End is Nigh for the Xbox 360 Live Arcade comes across more as the guy who invented Theological noncognitivism. A nice try, but unlikely to convince many.
Dustin Anglin