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Boo! Clive Barker's Jericho [update 1]
Codemasters is getting in on the Halloween spirit, dropping the first teaser for Clive Barker's Jericho today (see it on Eurogamer). Jericho is Barker's second gaming collaboration, the first being Clive Barker's Undying (published by EA in 2001). Aside from games, the British-born horror novelist has stretched his talents across the film, theatre, paint, and comic mediums.Judging from these early glimpses, the development team is setting a grisly tone, but nothing shockingly novel. Codemasters has gotten too comfortable with its string of racing-sims these past few years. Let's hope a change of direction -- and Barker's imagination -- lends itself to something special, lest Jericho become just another pretender saturating the horror genre. Show us more!Update: corrected Barker's gaming history.
Jericho screens to give you nightmares
Just in time for Halloween, Planet Xbox 360 has a few new shots of Clive Barker's Jericho. A squad-based horror-themed FPS developed by Codemasters, Jericho offers players "an overload of sensory horror shock." Looking at these shots of bloody, grisly, congealed, nasty monsters, we'd be hard-pressed to disagree. The game focuses on a special squad -- named "Jericho Team," of course -- that serves the government in regulating paranormal threats. Boy, that sounds familiar. An interesting twist is that each squad member has a different arcane specialty (clairvoyance, alchemy, etc.) We hope one of them is a firestarter. We don't know much more about the game at this point, but at least the screens look nice. Any Clive Barker fans out there hoping Jericho will keep them up at night?
HDTV Listings for October 18, 2006
What we're watching: There's some show coming on ABC at 9, you've probably heard of it...Found or something like that? Anyway, other than the show-we-shall-not-name, there's also new episodes of The Nine, Jericho, 30 Rock and Dancing with the Stars. The National League conference champion could be decided tonight as the Mets face the Cardinals in Game 6, who will face the Tigers in the World Series?Our traditional high-def listings continue below.
HDTV Listings for September 20, 2006
What we're watching: Two all-new shows tonight in Jericho and Kidnapped (previously seen on Xbox Live). Jericho uses the tried-and-true storyline of a Kansas town on the day of a nuclear explosion that cuts off all communication. Never heard that one before? Try Kidnapped, the kidnapping-show-that's-not-Vanished, this time spending a season on the effort to recover an abducted child. Criminal Minds and CSI: NY are also back for another run starting this evening on CBS. Along with new episodes of Bones and Justice, there's all the sleuthing and mystery you could want. The Tigers and White Sox continue to do battle on ESPN-HD while Arrested Development continues it's run on HDNet.Our traditional high-def listings continue below.
Clive Barker's Jericho announced for next-gen consoles
Creepy author Clive Barker seems to have little trouble moving between entertainment mediums, raising hell in the realms of books, films and video games with his special brand of horror that often involves people getting sharp things shoved into their fleshy bits. The latest game to bear his name and twisted influence is entitled Cliver Barker's Jericho and, thanks to the power of modern consoles, will likely feature the most realistic blood to ever grace your HDTV set.Joining hands with British developer Codemasters and gleefully skipping through the development graveyard, Mr. Barker claims that the project is very close to his heart and that he doesn't think "there's ever been anything like it." He goes on to label it as "the most spectacular, creative, and unflinching realization of a Clive Barker nightmare that will drag players in kicking and screaming." Even scarier is the fact that he now refers to himself in third-person, no doubt brought on by all those nightmares he's so keen on sharing with us. Tasked with wiping out an evil, umm, evil, players will have to deal with a lost city that's mysteriously reappeared in the desert, no doubt returning with its streets lined with all manner of monsters and unpleasantries. The initial screenshots look lovely, though "lovely" may not be the most appropriate word when describing a man with blades for hands, giant staples in his head and what appears to be a nasty case of Gingivitis. We don't particularly look forward to meeting him.If the superb Clive Barker's Undying is anything to go by, however, we do look forward to learning more about Jericho. It's out on next-generation consoles and PC sometime next year.
Clive Barker, scary guy extraordinaire, makes new game
Clive Barker, with the assistance of Codemasters, is making a game called Jericho. It will be scary. Mr. Barker worked on Undying, a PC game from 2001 that was pretty darn creepy. Not to mention the Hellraiser and Candyman films. Should we lock our doors and keep all the lights on? Nah, where's the fun in that? Play this one during a windy night with the windows open and the curtains sweeping, in the dark. Naturally. That's part of what makes surround sound Silent Hill games so freakin'... freaky.Barker said over at IGN: "There are things in my imagination which I think can only be paintings, things that can only be books, and this thing has to be a game." Awesome, especially since the article pointed out how Barker was captivated with the ability of games to allow the gamer multiple paths and multiple endings. Movies and books are restricting in that manner. Basic gist of the game, according to Barker again, takes place in a town "like Russian dolls, spaces within each other, and trapped inside each space is a slice of time where the warriors of good have gone against ultimate evil and have lost." Sounds... vague interesting.Love Clive Barker? He promises to be involved every step of the way on this title. His previous work on a game called Demonik, has found itself stranded in purgatory mid-production. Hopefully this title won't make such action a trend.
