I haven't paid too much attention to the PS3/360 title The Darkness that was released recently, mostly because I'm not much of an FPS fan, but a user comment on some Kotaku post perked my ears. It contains full length movies, music videos and cartoons that play on the televisions throughout the game. While I have no means to play it, I was able to cull together some titles, mostly from this GameFAQs post by "tragicchilds".Feature Films-
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
The Street Fighter (1974)
Return Of The Street Fighter (1974)
Sister Street Fighter (1974)
The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Nosferatu (1922)
Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (1936)
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
Animated Shorts-
Gabby:
Fire Cheese (1941)
Popeye:
A Haul In One (1956)
Cookin' With Gags (1955)
Floor Flusher (1954)
Greek Mirthology (1954)
I Don't Scare (1956)
Nearlyweds (1957)
Insect to Injury (1956)
Parlez Vous Woo (1956)
Shuteye Popeye (1952)
Spree Lunch (1957)
The New 3 Stooges:
Hairbrained Barbers (1965)
The Littlest Martian (1965)
"over 10" Music Videos including -
Pelle Carlberg - "Riverbank"
The Duskfall - "Shoot It"
Ten full-length Top Cow comics(all 1st issues) of The Darkness, Magdalena, Witchblade, Cyberforce, Hunter Killer, The Necromancer, & Strykeforce.
The first thing you notice about the list is that virtually all of it(besides To Kill A Mockinbird)* is comprised of common public domain material. This is an easy, cheap, and I think ingenious way of filling the in game televisions with hours of natural-looking media. There are a few other games I can think of that used PD materials(the Make My Video series, Jack Sprite vs. The Crimson Ghost), but it's still an untapped resource. The PS3 is able to flex it's massive Blu-Ray storage space, as the 360 version is reported to have considerably less material.
It's also interesting to note that both of the music artists I was able to find are from Sweden, which is also where developer Starbreeze hails from.
*I have a feeling that the Flash Gordon episodes used are actually from the 1954 TV series which, unlike the Buster Crabbe serials, is PD material.
1 comments:
Except the Street Fighter stuff is probably not public domain regardless of cheap DVD companies treating it as such. If I was putting out a high profile videogame, I wouldn't risk it.
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