Ubisoft Cancels Heroes Game

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Ubisoft has cancelled its video game based on NBC Universal's super-powered televisions series Heroes, which stars Hayden Panettiere (pictured left) and Milo Ventimiglia among others.

"The rights to the Heroes video game have reverted back to NBC Universal. Ubisoft will no longer produce a video game based on the TV series," the publisher told MTV Multiplayer.

Announced last summer, the game was slated to hit PC and unspecified "next-generation" consoles. Series creator Tim Kring and co-executive producer Jesse Alexander were slated to help with the project.

However, Alexander was fired from the show this past weekend alongside fellow writer Jeph Loeb, with Variety reporting that NBC was not happy with the show's direction.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

From The Chatty
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    November 6, 2008 3:13 PM

    After the series shat itself inside out, there probably isn't any incentive for people to buy such a game anyway.

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      November 6, 2008 3:17 PM

      Whuh? Aside from a slow start and the writer's strike, the show's just fine. It's excellent this season, easily on par with the first season.

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        November 6, 2008 3:18 PM

        Slow start to the (abbreviated) 2nd season.

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        November 6, 2008 3:26 PM

        No, the series definitely picked up. Give it a chance. The last episode (believe it was the last episode) was insane.

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          November 6, 2008 4:08 PM

          I'm tired of it personally, i think after Season 1 it went downhill. Bad guys are now good, good guys are now bad, everyone gets new powers, everyone changes personality, NO ONE STAYS DEAD.

          Eh. i'm done.

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            November 6, 2008 4:13 PM

            i haven't watched it, but it sounds pretty true to comic-book roots :P

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            November 6, 2008 5:10 PM

            And what's with the prison? Suddenly *anyone* can break out. It's supposed to be a super maximum murdered prison.

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              November 7, 2008 5:32 AM

              Keeping people locked up tends to be difficult when they can teleport, zip through time, and hurl people across a room with a glance.

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            November 7, 2008 4:58 AM

            Don't forget: it's a TV series with traditional comic book influences.

            It's a shame Loeb left. His writing and experience is why I enjoyed the series. Corny and improbable, it's a contemporary superhero 'yarn'. If it gets canned, I think the series will still be enjoyable as a whole. So long as it doesn't end in all the characters waking up from a dream.

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        November 6, 2008 4:40 PM

        Seriously? "Excellent this season?" Are... are we watching the same show?

        Actually no we aren't, because I couldn't stand it enough to continue.

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      November 6, 2008 4:31 PM

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        November 10, 2008 2:40 PM

        We don't know *yet*. The point is to let the characters define themselves through their actions, rather than telling people from the start that they're good or evil and then making them behave in predictable ways for the rest of the series.

        This is like the stage in the 'heroes journey' where the hero tries to run away from his destiny, and some doubt is placed in the audience's mind that hero will be able to complete his tasks (talking about Peter mainly here).

        Obviously, the writers have to resolve everything consistently, and they can't just keep changing things up like this every season, but I'm staying optimistic at the moment.

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