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It kind of feels like the Blizzard Warcraft movie all over again.

The various short movies Blizzard had done were looking good and interesting.
When it came to making a movie … things fell apart rather quickly.

It show cases that the problem these days is not in the art or animation, but in the actual story telling (and voice acting).

I suspect that’s why the episodes are less than 30 minutes and practically all of them are extended combat scenes of some form with minimal dialog. If they’re doing a new season then I hope they include more story and less fighting.

Pacman was the last one I’ve watched and I liked it the best. Turning that game into a horror story of sorts was brilliant.
Sifu (Tekken?) tried something interesting, but made no real sense.
The one with Schwarzenegger was funny, but I don’t know which game that was supposed to be.

40k highlighted once again the great mismatch between the lore and the game itself.
In the lore the space marines are almost brutally efficient lethal killers. In game they’d be lucky to survive the first encounter.
It definitely needed more lines to add character and depth.

It’s kind of funny how the combat in the Unreal Tournament episode did match the lethality of the game itself 😉 (with the possible exception of those bots using themselves as cover 😀 ). I think they also had the announcer of the game (or at least a sound-a-like).

On a related note : I miss Unreal Tournament. Such a shame the game tanked once 2k3 version got released. It never recovered from that and the market moved on as the genre practically got replaced by the survival/last man standing combo.