New Doctor Who adventure game: “TARDIS”

The new Doctor Who adventure game is called TARDIS and it will be available to download on the official Doctor Who website by 27th August 2010.

Here’s what’s on the website, by now:

It will feature monsters, terrifying new dangers for the Doctor and Amy and offers an amazing insight into the world’s most famous blue box. It’s also been announced that the game will give players the opportunity to pilot the Doctor’s iconic time machine.

Lead Writer and Executive Producer, Steven Moffat, confirmed, ‘Since 1963, kids have wondered what it would be like to control the TARDIS. Now we’re handing complete control of the most powerful ship in all of space and time to a generation of children. Everybody duck!’ He also told us, ‘TARDIS is a brilliant, brilliant adventure. It’s funny, touching, terrifying, amazing – everything a Doctor Who episode should be.’

The official press release promised, ‘the game allows players to explore the Doctor’s wondrous drawing room, featuring treasures and artefacts from his many adventures – a location specially created for the game, which will go on to form part of the Doctor Who canon’.

Matt Smith and Karen Gillan return as the Doctor and Amy and once again the game is executive produced by Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger, Beth Willis and Anwen Aspden (BBC Wales Interactive), alongside Charles Cecil. Music is by Murray Gold and TARDIS is written by James Moran whose previous credits include Torchwood, Spooks and the Tenth Doctor story, The Fires of Pompeii.

It’s the third Adventure Game and will be available at no extra cost to UK households, simultaneously on PC and Mac from this site. Users outside the UK will be able to purchase and download it on its UK release date, 27 August.

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Source: BBC – Doctor Who – TARDIS Materialises 27 August! – News & Features

Doctor Who – “The Adventure Games”, new and released soon on BBC!

DOCTOR WHO NEW GAME – CITY OF THE DALEKS

“City of the Daleks” will be a game released by the BBC company that features Doctor Who characters and will provide a lot of fun time, alone or with your family! The Doctor will land on Kaalann (the Dalek capital city) in 1963, London is in ruins and the Daleks have seized control of time and the only chance of saving Earth lies in a desperate quest to Skaro, the Daleks’ home planet – before time catches up with Amy, the last survivor of the human race!

Players will help the Doctor and Amy on an epic new adventure in an original story which forms part of the current series, traversing time and space in a dazzling episode. Nicholas Briggs provides the voice of the Daleks, alongside Matt Smith and Karen Gillan who recreate their roles as the Doctor and Amy.

Written by Phil Ford who (Doctor Who: Dreamland and the Sarah Jane Adventures) and executive produced by Steven Moffat, episode one City of the Daleks is full of the TV show’s celebrated mix of action, peril and humour.

“This is quite a series opener,” says Phil Ford, writer, Doctor Who. “We destroy London even before the credits role – so you can only begin to imagine where we travel to from there. City of the Daleks is as big-budget as you can imagine: from London we head to Kaalann, the capital city of the Daleks, one constructed from pure anger and hate. And these new Daleks don’t like to be messed with, so players are about to enjoy a new interactive episode which is as heart-pulsing as anything you’ve seen before.”

The interactive episodes are executive produced by Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger, Beth Willis and Anwen Aspden (BBC Wales Interactive), alongside Charles Cecil, one of videogaming’s most revered creators. The games are being developed by Sumo Digital, one of the UK’s best game designers. Stories and scripts are from Phil Ford and James Moran (Severance, Torchwood Children of Earth). The project has been commissioned for BBC Online by the Vision Multiplatform team, headed up by Simon Nelson, and is being driven by BBC Wales Interactive.

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games ‘City of the Daleks’ will be available to download for free from the Doctor Who website from June 5th 2010, for both PC and Mac users.

Doctor Who game for Wii & Nintendo!

Nintendo has agreed a contract said to be worth over £10million to create the much-anticipated game for its popular Wii and DS consoles. The firm is planning to get it into shops in time for the lucrative Christmas market. The game is at the early stages but is set to be based around the new Doctor and his new companion, Amy Pond, played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillian. It will also feature Doctor Who baddies including the Daleks, the Cybermen and the Silurians.
An insider said: “This has been in the pipeline for years. We’re delighted to have finally nailed down a deal. We went with Nintendo as they have huge appeal for families and Doctor Who is very much a family brand. The Wii console is key for us as it’s something families play together.”

The game will be closely monitored by the BBC, which does not want anything too violent. Former Doctor David Tennant said the game had struggled to get off the ground as some developers had wanted the Time Lord to beat up his enemies and blow things up.
Who chiefs prefer the Doc to defeat baddies using his intelegence rather than his fists.
David said: “The video game was quite actively developed, but it’s difficult to nail as the Doctor doesn’t blow things up. He’s not Batman, who goes around smacking people in the head.”

Firms had been coming up with ideas for the last three years in a bid to tap into the show’s success.
The insider added: “BBC Worldwide, which licenses BBC shows, has been trying to find some way of doing it. But you can’t have Doctor Who blowing things to bits with a laser gun. That would massively change the nature of the show.”
BBC has made a fortune out of Doctor Who spin-offs – raking in around £100million.

Source – The Sun.