Prince Caspian game gets exclusive video scenes

Remember how "Enter the Matrix" had literally hours of new video footage for its story featuring side characters from the film trilogy? That game sold a lot of copies but was outrageously expensive and a critical flop, so perhaps it's not a surprise that no movie-based vidoegame since then has attempted to integrate new footage shot by the film's cast and crew.

Disney Interactive is very cautiously trying it again though, with "Prince Caspiain." In this case, however, we don't have a few hours, just a few minutes in the form of two new scenes that frame a level the developers created to bridge the gap between "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" and "Caspian."

Every developer of a videogame based on a movie brags that they had significant cooperation of some sort from the studio, producers, filmmakers, etc. In the case of "Caspian," Disney has prime evidence that its studio and its videogame developers (separate units of the same conglomerate) are talking, what with two new scenes with the star of the movie created by the director and writers, not to mention extensive digital assets from the film integrated into the game, most notably in the form of a massive castle setting (seen in the screenshot on the left). Whether the game is any good? Well, Variety will have a review soon.

All the details are here, in a story exclusively in today's Daily Variety.

Update (4/24): I should have noted in the story and here on the blog that while film director Andrew Adamson oversaw the new scenes, they were actually directed on set by the movie's pre-visualization supervisor Rpin Suwannath.