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Posted 09 April 2010 - 04:11 AM

The BBC has unveiled plans for Doctor Who: The Adventure Games for Mac and PC, a downloadable series of four free 'interactive episodes' based on the popular British sci-fi television series. The games will allow players to take the role of The Doctor and will feature the latest incarnation of the time lord and his most recent companion, Amy.

The exact titles of the four episodes are being kept secret for the time being, but the four original stories will take players on a journey throughout time and space, including one location from the Doctor Who series which has never been seen before on screen. Players will encounter new and original monsters, in stories which form part of the overall Doctor Who canon.

"Children don't just watch Doctor Who - they join in. They make up games, invent their monsters, create their own stories," says Steven Moffat, Head Writer and Executive Producer, Doctor Who. "Now, there's something else - now they can be the Doctor in brand new episodes. Doctor Who: The Adventure Games will offer fans of the Doctor a unique opportunity to enter his world, face his challenges and grapple with his deadliest foes.  
 
"By developing these games alongside the new TV series, we've been able to weave exciting narrative strands with the very finest game design to create a new kind of Doctor Who, which can be enjoyed by the whole family."
 
"There aren't 13 episodes of Doctor Who this year," adds Piers Wenger, Head of Drama, BBC Wales and Executive Producer, Doctor Who. "There are 17 - four of which are interactive. Everything you see and experience within the game is part of the Doctor Who universe: we'll be taking you to places you've only ever dreamed about seeing - including locations impossible to create on television."

"Doctor Who: The Adventure Games will offer the chance for Doctor Who fans to visit places they've only dreamed off, facing off against monsters they've previously had to imagine," concludes Anwen Aspden, Executive Producer, BBC Wales Online. "Players will visit places which have never been shown on television - and these will go on to define the look and feel of future TV episodes."

These four new adventures will take the form of downloadable computer games available for PC and Mac, in which players assume control of the Doctor and Amy as they embark on new adventures which complement the new TV series.
 
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games has been produced by a team drawing on the very best talent from TV and gaming. The interactive episodes are executive produced by Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger, Beth Willis and Anwen Aspden (BBC Wales Interactive), alongside Charles Cecil, one of videogaming's most revered creators. The games are being developed by Sumo Digital, one of the UK's best game designers. Stories and scripts are from Phil Ford (co-writer Doctor Who 'Waters of Mars') and James Moran (Severance, Torchwood Children of Earth). The project has been commissioned for BBC Online by the Vision Multiplatform team, headed up by Simon Nelson, and is being driven by BBC Wales Interactive.
 
Matt Smith and Karen Gillan have been digitally recreated in-game, and have provided full voice-overs. Music has been provided by TV series' composer Murray Gold. An additional cast will portray original characters and classic enemies.
The first episode of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games will be available to download for PC and Mac from the BBC website in June 2010. Its title will be revealed at a special press event on April 21st.

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Posted 09 April 2010 - 05:57 AM

Cool, given that these are original stories I'll be trying them out.

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Posted 09 April 2010 - 10:36 AM

If they aren’t prequels to the next season, I might personally wait to avoid spoilers. But the price is right and they look great!

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Posted 09 April 2010 - 11:11 AM

Any info on System requirements? I couldn't find anything.

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Posted 09 April 2010 - 01:26 PM

That's great news!!! I'm a big fan of 'The Doctor' & SciFi  ;)

I can't wait to see it running on my 27" iMac Core i7  :P

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 07:01 PM

Huge fan here - can't wait to play! And, nice to see BBC show some respect to Macs, after being quite hostile to it recently (e.g. videos only playing on Windows).

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Posted 10 April 2010 - 07:03 PM

View Postnagromme, on 09 April 2010 - 10:36 AM, said:

If they aren’t prequels to the next season, I might personally wait to avoid spoilers. But the price is right and they look great!

I'm guessing that these will likely be just stand-alone episodes that don't exactly fit within the greater plot arc for the season, sort of like the Doctor Who comic series featuring David Tennant's Doctor and Martha. And besides, they pretty much had some glaring spoilers during the teaser they showed at the end of the first episode with Matt Smith. Sigh. I still miss David Tennant.
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Posted 10 April 2010 - 08:30 PM

He was one of the best doctors if not the best. Still, the show is about changing the main character relatively frequently and he had a good run. Good to end on top.
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