I highly recomend this film for an out of body movie expirience. The story is hard to follow, but once you buy in, it will take you for a ride. Before I get into why this movie would make a great game, I need to give you a brief synopsis. This film drops us into a fantasy world ravaged by a long war between humans and machines. The doctors of the city are trying to find a cure for the worlds leaders. They discover "neo-cells", which are thought to regenirate anything. Suddenly, a mechnical lighting bolt from the sky transforms the discarded neo-cells into human like neo-sapiens. The city leaders have them immediately killed, but the five surviving neo-sapiens now vow revenge. They find and reanimate the old robot army to iradicate the humans. The only thing that can stop them is Casshern, the son of an army general who was resurected with neo-cells after dying in the war. The neo-cells give him super powers, and along with a cyborg suit, he fights the neosapiens to an apocalyptic conclusion. (Whew, did you get all that.)
The first thing is that this movie drips with style. The graphics and art direction were some of the best around at the time of it's release. In a video game format this movie would be on par with the likes of Bioshock and The Last Guardian.
This film has three distinct factions in conflict. You have the robots, humans and neo-sapiens. The game play should follow the format of one of the most underrated PC games of the past Decade (Alien vs. Predator). Alien vs. Predator allowed gamers to expirience a multiplayer royal rumble using humans, aliens, and predators. What was truly unique was that these weren't just the same sprites with different skins, but you actualled played the charaters differently. Aliens could crawl on the wall, humans had the deadliest weapons and predators were invisible. Casshern would funcition in a similar way. The protagonist/neo-sapiens would have combo based attacks, featuring speed and chaining ability. The robots would be slow and powerful, and have the ability to fly for breif periods.
Finally, the humans would have the best guns, and can set the best traps around the playing field. This game would have a great online multiplayer community. The ability to play with different characters on different maps will add tremendously to this games replay value.
I would be hesitant to change the story from the film, but I would add to it. Also the single player mode could be played from the the three different factions. First, you would play through as Casshern, and this would be the mutant story arc. Then after beating the game you would play through on the mechanica story arc, and finally as the human story arc. The same stages would be used for each arc, but the puzzles and challanges would be different. Each character arc would be complete and have a unique ending, but as you play as each group, information is revealed about the other characters. Each time you play you get more information that enriches the story as a whole.
I might just be a fan of the movie, and don't want the story to stop. But this could be an awesome video game title.
