Wheel of Time games on the way

CB Droege 15 Feb, 2010 at 11:45am ET Article published in Gaming

Red Eagle Games and Obsidian Entertainment on Friday announced that they have entered into an agreement that provides a framework for Obsidian Entertainment to work closely with Red Eagle Games’ in-house development team to create new video games for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling fantasy series, The Wheel of Time.

“The development team at Obsidian Entertainment has demonstrated time and again that they can successfully blend storytelling with technology to craft a superior RPG game experience,” said Rick Selvage, Chief Executive Officer of Red Eagle Games. “Obsidian Entertainment is the ideal development partner to help Red Eagle Games take Jordan’s beloved characters from the printed page to exciting new forms of interactive media.”

“Obsidian Entertainment is thrilled with this opportunity to work with Red Eagle Games in developing games based upon The Wheel of Time series,” said Feargus Urquhart, Chief Executive Officer of Obsidian Entertainment. “The Wheel of Time is a rich universe that lends itself to incredible gaming possibilities.”

Jordan’s series has enjoyed a strong following since the first book in the series, The Eye of The World, was released in 1990. Eleven additional books, including one prequel, have since been added to the series and have consistently appeared on the New York Times Best-Seller List, with the last five novels in the series debuting at number one.

Jordan died in 2007 at the age of 58, leaving the epic story unfinished. Since then, the publisher, Tor Books, announced that a final trilogy of novels will bring the series to its climax. Penned by fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson using notes, audio recordings and draft materials left with Jordan’s wife and editor, Harriet Rigney, the most recent installment in the series, The Gathering Storm, was published in October of 2009.

Comments

15 Feb 2010 ~ 12:39pm pigflipper Umm....first WoT game was based on the original Unreal engine and released in 1999. So, this has already been done before, just most people don't remember because the corporations assume, correctly, that most people have the attention span of a goldfish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time_(video_game)
15 Feb 2010 ~ 12:43pm CB No one said that this was the first time it had been tried.
15 Feb 2010 ~ 12:49pm Garg Hope it doesn't suck.
15 Feb 2010 ~ 1:05pm pigflipper CB: the way you wrote the article made it sound as if this was the first time this had been attempted.
15 Feb 2010 ~ 2:11pm drasnor I own the 1999 version. It was pretty awful.

-drasnor
15 Feb 2010 ~ 2:14pm Winfrey I remember playing the demo for the first WoT game and not understanding anything at all of what was going on.

I've read the first book of Jordan's series, not gonna lie, finishing the series is a daunting task.
15 Feb 2010 ~ 2:15pm Thrax

pigflipper wrote:

CB: the way you wrote the article made it sound as if this was the first time this had been attempted.

To you.
31 Jul 2010 ~ 2:58am alxx Terrible ? The first wot game was great and at the time lead with features others hadn't done.

Still have a copy and give it an occasional run.
Absolute ton of maps out there for it.