New Video Games Target Independent Film Fans

Finally, companies responsible for the creation of video game versions of every popular mainstream action film produced in recent years are starting to expand their horizons by giving more artistic and independent movies the same treatment.  Here are a few examples of the most popular:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Go on a drug fueled frenzy through sin city as freaked out journalist Raol Duke and his depraved attorney Dr. Gonzo in this new release for GameCube.  Using the consciousness expanding powers of mescaline, LSD, ether and a host of other mind altering substances, search for the American dream throughout the hotels, casinos, and cheap roadside diners of Vegas while shooting the pasties off ten foot tall bull dykes, crashing drug conventions and battling the real and imagined agents of oppression and conformity – including square parking attendants, polar bear fornicating cocktail waitresses, booze guzzling alligators, mean fuzzy headed cops, underage drug crazed hormone monsters harboring strange fascinations with Barbara Streisand, rabid flying wolverines, and most serious of all – The Fear.  Is Margaret Meade’s strange behavior of late related to a private Marijuana addiction?  Buy the ticket, take the ride and find out for yourself!  Rated T for Teen.

Requiem For A Dream – Pursue the life dreams of each of the four main characters of the dark independent movie of the same name while trying to avoid the pitfalls of crippling drug addiction in this action packed new release for Play Station 2.  As Harry Goldfarb, don’t take any guff from your chubby, lonesome mother as she moans over your stealing her television to pawn for the umpteenth time for the cash you need to score a pound of pure heroin - and a ticket to easy street. As Sarah Goldfarb, you’ll battle flying pastrami sandwiches, pies, ravenous evil refrigerators and electroshock therapy technicians as you struggle to lose fifty pounds with the help of an array of magic diet pills before your glorious television debut on a juice maker infomercial. Also see how fast you can mash potatoes in prison as Tyrone, and wander the city streets as Marion blowing guys for smack. Rated E for Everyone.

Donnie Darko – Save the world as an overmedicated teenage boy with the help of a big demented rabbit named Frank by navigating a tangent of the space-time continuum in a flying dune buggy equipped with a vast arsenal of awesome weaponry and a stereo system that plays cool 80s post-punk music.  As a divine agent of good, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to set other injustices right on the way to meeting your final objective as you clash with legions of soccer mom zombies, battle to save the children of your New England town from the sinister clutches of child molesting aliens from the future by vaporizing them with a roof-mounted laser cannon, and capture the heart of a young princess by blasting her tormentors with rocket propelled grenade launchers.  For X Box systems. Rated R for Radical!

I Stand Alone – Assume the role of the sociopathic unemployed butcher at the center of the sadistic French drama by Gaspar Noe in this new game for PlayStation 2.  Upon completion of a ten year prison term for stabbing a man in the face because you thought he raped your daughter, you’re free to wander Northern France and Paris lashing out at the world you’ve come to despise in a delirium of self abasement.  Notable sequences include punching your loathsome girlfriend’s pregnant belly, shouting racial tirades in wine bars, molesting your daughter and shooting her in the neck, and finally, blowing your own head off.  Rated E for Everyone.