Lloyd-Webber Musicals Coming To Gaming
It seems game studios are reaching wider and wider for new intellectual properties and game concepts to develop. Comic books, films and movies have been getting game adaptations for quite some time now. Recently some rather unusual material has been acquired for conversion to a video game including literary classic Dante’s Inferno. With its explorations of hell and vast amount of material that could make for impressive gameplay and visuals the book seems perfectly suited to making an adventure game.
At the time the announcement seemed incredibly odd, but in light of one of today’s rumors an adaptation of Dante’s Inferno seems as commonplace as a new Mario title. Several publishers have been approached by Andrew Lloyd-Weber’s company Really Useful Group to ascertain the possibility of bringing some of the composer’s classic musicals to game systems: “With the video gaming audience having moved from its male-dominated roots towards a more family-oriented demographic, now is the perfect time for us to take some of the best-known names in musical entertainment in a more interactive direction,” said Really Useful Group’s Douglas Glen of the proposal.
At this early stage it’s impossible to say what direction they’d go with the games, but something along the lines of a musical rhythm game is likely. I’d be very amused to see a game that combined Dance Dance Revolution gameplay with the singing of Rock band.