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1. Brave New World: Homecoming
In this Survival Horror fright fest, you play as John the Savage, a boy ripped from his New Mexico reservation home and brought into the modern dystopia of London AD 2540. Fight off drugged-out drones, loose women, and other gawkers with Soma tablets and one weighty melee weapon—an unabridged volume of Shakespeare!
2. Animal Farm: A Wonderful Life
Who says the Stalin era can’t be good old wholesome fun? Animal Farm: A Wonderful Life is the latest in farm-sim gaming, giving you the chance to play as Napoleon the pig and lead your farm to greatness. Allocate chores, raise a loyal brood of attack dogs, and change your farm’s manifesto at will—just be sure to keep your comrades’ heart rankings at red with keen rhetoric.
3. Candide: Fall From Grace
Enlightened satire has never been so epic! Guide optimistic Candide through the best of all possible worlds, partaking in exciting quests that help shape his worldview. Chase Cunégonde and be flogged as a heretic, seek the advice of a dervish and find your way back to paradise if you can. All of your choices will alter Candide, but fear not, for all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
4. Masque of the Red Death: Abbey Defense
You’ve pitted plants against zombies, now get ready for the latest unlikely pairing in tower defense dynamics: inbred aristocrats vs. bile-spewing plague infectees. You’ll squirm with delight while playing through seven colorful and bloodsplattering levels! Try to tell humans from monsters in this costume ball from hell. Just make sure to ward off evil before the ebony clock tolls—otherwise, the party’s over.
5. Lolita: Full Throttle Racing
Humbert Humbert wants little Lo all to himself but the open road has other plans. Cruise the USA in a stolen car without getting deterred by cops, figments of Humbert’s wild paranoia, and one particularly pesky playwright. Rest up at cheap motel checkpoints and don’t lose focus on the road; each crash gives Lolita another chance to escape!
Which great works would you like to play through?
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Flower Chucker Jun 11, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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Heh, this is a really interesting concept! As for the book I'd like to play through, it might not be a Lolita racing game (or a timeless classic for that matter), but wouldn't Watership Down make a great RPG?
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Agamemnon Jun 11, 2009 at 10:47 pm
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John the Savage battling loose women...LOL. Great gist article, especially considering you hit four of my favorite authors. I'll give it a go.
5. Flowers for Algernon - Rat Race
Work your way through a slew of puzzles starting off from the boringly base to the intricately intelligent before the egg timer goes off. Then, when you're at the peak of your game, experience the most challenging aspect of the game when parts of your controller stop responding or function differently than what you input.
4. Siddhartha - Enlightenment
Work your way from young age to forsake a life of luxury as you patiently wait outside your home for a day standing still as you balance yourself with the controller and listen to the sound of running water by tapping 'x' when you can hear it (and no cheating by raising the volume!). But be careful not to hit it prematurely or you'll lose the game!
3. Fahrenheit 451 - Burn Baby Burn
Work your way through the city as a fireman for the good of humanity. Drive through the streets as quickly as possible to burn dangerous books that can endanger the lives of the citizens of the city--wait too long and they might have an individual thought, and then you're in trouble!
2. Sphere - My Own Worst Enemy
Take part in a battle of the wits against other companions trapped in an underwater habitat. Survive the psycho-nausea of avoiding some of the most fearful things you can think of (with a prerequisite of a questionnaire asking you what you are afraid of) while the screen shakes and changes colors, or avoid other companions trying to kill you (or are they?) before the timer runs out and you are all rescued (or are you?).
1. Ender's Game - Battle Room
Enjoy your stay at Battle School by first taking an aptitude test in your first year before you are assigned to a team. At the bottom of the pecking order, you work your way up by racking up kills and reputation in the battle room, where your team's ratio of wins to defeats is a matter of bragging rights in a zero g room. Pull of some pretty good stunts and you might just get your own team and a reputation to earn yourself your own jeesh before the final exam.
5. Flowers for Algernon - Rat Race
Work your way through a slew of puzzles starting off from the boringly base to the intricately intelligent before the egg timer goes off. Then, when you're at the peak of your game, experience the most challenging aspect of the game when parts of your controller stop responding or function differently than what you input.
4. Siddhartha - Enlightenment
Work your way from young age to forsake a life of luxury as you patiently wait outside your home for a day standing still as you balance yourself with the controller and listen to the sound of running water by tapping 'x' when you can hear it (and no cheating by raising the volume!). But be careful not to hit it prematurely or you'll lose the game!
3. Fahrenheit 451 - Burn Baby Burn
Work your way through the city as a fireman for the good of humanity. Drive through the streets as quickly as possible to burn dangerous books that can endanger the lives of the citizens of the city--wait too long and they might have an individual thought, and then you're in trouble!
2. Sphere - My Own Worst Enemy
Take part in a battle of the wits against other companions trapped in an underwater habitat. Survive the psycho-nausea of avoiding some of the most fearful things you can think of (with a prerequisite of a questionnaire asking you what you are afraid of) while the screen shakes and changes colors, or avoid other companions trying to kill you (or are they?) before the timer runs out and you are all rescued (or are you?).
1. Ender's Game - Battle Room
Enjoy your stay at Battle School by first taking an aptitude test in your first year before you are assigned to a team. At the bottom of the pecking order, you work your way up by racking up kills and reputation in the battle room, where your team's ratio of wins to defeats is a matter of bragging rights in a zero g room. Pull of some pretty good stunts and you might just get your own team and a reputation to earn yourself your own jeesh before the final exam.
Agamemnon Jun 11, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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I love that book. Well, I love books in general, but I really, really love that book.
Agamemnon Jun 12, 2009 at 12:24 am
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I know what you mean. Slaughterhouse-Five has the same effect on me as well.
Sol Invictus Jun 11, 2009 at 11:29 pm
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The Iliad as retold in an ultra-futuristic science fiction setting. Play as Achilles (or better yet, Odysseus, because you wouldn't want to die in the middle of the story) as he battles his way through the Trojan forces with nanotechnological strength and endurance amplifiers. Heroes like Achilles and Hector are impermeable to everything but each other... and the gods.
The game's greatest moments can be based on the books' moments of aristeia, such as when Achilles routs the Trojan army, and Achilles' pursuit of Hector. All of this would be accomplished through the use of a quantum time-shifting device that pauses the battlefield around the two heroes as they engage in mortal combat. The scene would be packed with static bodies, hyperkinetic arrows and swords all frozen in mid-air, as the two heroes tear their way through the motionless battlefield. The duel ends in an eruption of gore as the entire battlefield is split asunder.
If it sounds awesome, that's because it's a borrowed idea from Dan Simmons' Ilium.
Just make it an RPG and have Odysseus gain upgrades for his nanotech abilities. Why, it even pre-empts a sequel, with Odysseus losing his memory and all of his skills. Kind of like how you lose your memory and all your skills in Gothic 2 and Gothic 3. Except this time, it has its roots in an actual work of literature!
The game's greatest moments can be based on the books' moments of aristeia, such as when Achilles routs the Trojan army, and Achilles' pursuit of Hector. All of this would be accomplished through the use of a quantum time-shifting device that pauses the battlefield around the two heroes as they engage in mortal combat. The scene would be packed with static bodies, hyperkinetic arrows and swords all frozen in mid-air, as the two heroes tear their way through the motionless battlefield. The duel ends in an eruption of gore as the entire battlefield is split asunder.
If it sounds awesome, that's because it's a borrowed idea from Dan Simmons' Ilium.
Just make it an RPG and have Odysseus gain upgrades for his nanotech abilities. Why, it even pre-empts a sequel, with Odysseus losing his memory and all of his skills. Kind of like how you lose your memory and all your skills in Gothic 2 and Gothic 3. Except this time, it has its roots in an actual work of literature!
Del Maximum Feb 10, 2010 at 2:26 pm
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That's a fine idea! I love Illium and Olympos, great stories.
hereticaneue Jun 12, 2009 at 9:44 am
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You've inspired me to do a similar write-up! I've had an idea brewing in my head for years but never put it "on paper" so to speak.
gemmanite Jun 12, 2009 at 12:16 pm
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I always wished there was a Dynasty Warrior type of Redwall game where you can play as a badger (or any of the Redwall heroes) and go berserk on a giant army of rats and weasels =P
fingers Jun 12, 2009 at 5:35 pm
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... gotta get the car...the drugs...gotta get to vegas...then to the race. Side game....motorcross...only if you want it. Then through the lizards and the bats and all that crazy ****. Then back to California.
Only allowed to play while on drugs.
Only allowed to play while on drugs.
Game on!
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