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[Everything's Magic]

[Lambo_Diablo_Svtt]

[Everything's Magic]

Yes, but with your hands of course. So you can use it to open doors, scale buildings, escape the island, fight off little monsters, break into gun shops, break into food shops to replenish your health, etc.

[tMan930]

[Everything's Magic]

[Bacon Army]

[Aurigan]

Non-main characters would be okay too. You could still do everything mentioned in the game if you weren't main characters.

What I personally was thinking was you could do it as an 'alternate' Cloverfield, as tends to happen with some source-based video games. Everyone may die, but only if you don't rescue them and/or find them.

Since it all happens in scaled/real time, you can prevent people from getting into situations in the movie that kill them (i.e. getting into a helicopter) because everything is scripted to act out on its own. If you find everyone fast enough, you all escape, nobody dies. Or, you can follow the game exactly and things would happen similarly as they would in the movie.

An example is the Evangelion 64 video game. You can follow the plot exactly and the story unfolds that way.

Way of the Samurai (or WoS2) is an even better example. You can end the game in less than 5 minutes by simply running straight out of Rokkotsu Pass, the village of the game. Or you can run around and follow the plot however you want.

About ammo, you should expect it to be scarce. The characters in the game are only human, you can't expect them to tank monsters or carry around 10 packs ammo. Besides, NYC is MUCH safer than it used to be, you can look it up. NYC's gun laws are very strict and gun crime is way down, so finding a gun would be hard. Also, the characters are not gang members, they're hip 20-somethings.

You can pick up practically anything humanly possible to use as weapons, but they may or may not be effective. Hitting a small monster with a garbagecan might not be as effective as say, a lead pipe or length of rebar.

Overall... I'd play a game like this:

Large monster is like Shadow of the Colossus, cannot be damaged through normal means. Small monsters can be like Silent Hill in combat. They can be damaged by whatever sparse weapons you can find, or improvised weapons you can make. If you get creative, you can set improv traps. You will be better off avoiding combat, similarly to SH.

NYC will be set to scale within reason and the game environment will be free roaming like Grand Theft Auto. Everything unfolds in time, so you can be certain places at certain times and watch things unfold, or get there ahead of time to prevent them, or be at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and get killed. Or you can say fuggedaboutit and run straight out of the city. Or you can sit around for hours and get bombed. Again, you don't have to be a main character, but if you were, this would still work, I think.

I'm trying to make it as realistic as possible.

[McPhearson]

It would be an amazing Virtual Reality game, moving around as if you are in this "war"-torn city. That would be a heckuva thing.

[Aurigan]

If you beat the game with a perfect score, rescuing everyone, you get the mythical (trout) gun and can take down the large monster in a shot.

[Bacon Army]

[Aurigan]

If you're playing as them, sure. They're improv, they're not complex. Put a fairly heavy object on to the top of a half-open door. Door opens, heavy object falls and does damage. If you're able to pick up objects and use them, you're working with the game's physics engine.

[Bacon Army]

I was toyin' wit' ya, Aurigan.

Though I still don't think we should be able to play as the main characters if there were a game. Maybe another group of hip 20-somethings.

[Aurigan]

Can I still have my gun? Or maybe one that shoots Slusho! cups?

[Euchre]

I only want to play if I can be the monster.
I don't care if they kill the monster in the movie, many games allow you to create your own 'alternate endings' that were never done in the movie. I'd love to screw with the continuity by surviving when the monster shouldn't have.

[Bacon Army]

I like the Trout Gun. It should be like the Scarab Gun in Halo 2, though - only accessible from, say, the top of the Empire State Building on the hardest difficulty.