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But as Ramage is keen to emphasise, that doesn't mean you can make it through the game simply by hammering away at a single button.
#ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE A SECOND ERAGON THE MOVIE PC#
That last point is an important one, because you'll be doing a lot of fighting in Eragon, at least as far as the PC and console versions are concerned - it's a hack and slasher at heart. We flew out to Budapest last August when they were shooting we visited all the sets, we took photos, we met with the second unit director who gave us an insight into fighting styles and that kind of thing." Hammer time "With Eragon, we were able to meet with key creative personnel early on - the director, the producers and so on.
#ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE A SECOND ERAGON THE MOVIE MOVIE#
Usually the movie's ahead of the game, and you're making do with assets, but you don't really get that opportunity to get a true idea of what the vision of the movie is. "We hooked up with Fox about two years ago and we got a lot of access to movie personnel, so we could develop the game in conjunction with their vision - which is not always the case. "We've had the opportunity to make not just a movie game, but a great game based on a movie," Ramage says.
But according to senior producer Tim Ramage, you needn't expect it to be as completely rubbish as most movie-based games are. So that's what you can expect from the movie - and wouldn't you know it, as sure as dragon eggs is dragon eggs, you can also expect a videogame tie-in for PC, PS2, PSP, Xbox, Xbox 360, DS and GBA. At last, the battle for the Adventure Playground of Abarganarzarethar had begun. All but for Eragon, obviously, who finds himself caught up in a world of magical powers and evil tyranny and discovers that it is his destiny to sort it all out. There used to be loads of Dragon Riders round Eragon's way, but one of them betrayed the others, and now their kind has all but disappeared. Only it turns out the stone is in fact a dragon egg, and when the egg hatches, Eragon learns that he is in fact a Dragon Rider. Until one day, whilst walking in the woods, he stumbles across a mysterious stone. The Eragon of the title is a young farm boy (played in both the film and the game by non-famous British actor Edward Speelers) who spends his days mucking about on the farm, probably grooming his faithful old horse and flirting with the milkmaid and that sort of thing. The story goes a little something like this. So new, in fact, that the third book hasn't even been written yet - but apparently the first one is so brilliant that Fox just couldn't wait to start making a movie based on it. Īnyway, this Christmas will see the arrival of Eragon, an epic blockbuster based on the first in a new trilogy of books about wizards. Okay, so The Never Ending Story had magic and dragons and all that, but a horse drowns in it. It was much better when we were growing up children's films had proper themes, like space and time travel and robots and mermaids. If you have read the book assume it is a coincidence that the movie and characters share names.These days, Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without an epic blockbuster based on some rubbish old books about wizards turning up in cinemas. Just change the name of the movie to Saphira and it is OK. If you have never read the book and enjoy good CG you will like this movie. I think Edward would have made a good side character, but someone with more experienced should have been casted as Eragon or a director with more proved talent.
For which I hold the director responsible but it was also one of his first movies. It was all most like he was just there to read his lines and go home. The main problem with the acting in this movie was Edward Speleers, he had no presence in this movie, which is a bad thing for the main character. But those are two experienced actors that will give good performances regardless. Jeremy Irons did a very good for his part. The acting by Rachel Weisz was fantastic. If they would have increased this movie to 2 hours to 2 and a half hours I think it would have been a very good movie (hopefully the DVD will have more added in). One of the most nagging problems with this movie has it was way to short and seemed like it was in fast forward most of the movie. Let me start by saying I didn't read the books before seeing the movie but I am reading Eragon now.