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Flushed Away Game Announced

by Jonathan Metts - January 31, 2006, 11:21 pm EST
Total comments: 3 Source: D3Publisher of America

The oddly titled Dreamworks CG film is, of course, being adapted into a video game.

DreamWorks Animation SKG & D3Publisher of America Sign Worldwide Publishing

Agreement for Flushed Away

First Games Based on the Animated Feature Film Scheduled for Q4 2006

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- D3Publisher of America, Inc. (D3PA), a

publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, today

announced a worldwide publishing agreement with DreamWorks Animation SKG

(NYSE:DWA) for video games based on the forthcoming computer animated

feature film "Flushed Away". The first games are scheduled to be released

for console systems and handheld systems including Nintendo DS(TM), and Game

Boy(R) Advance in Q4 2006 to coincide with the release of the DreamWorks

computer animated feature film on November 3, 2006.

"This agreement with DreamWorks Animation SKG is a significant milestone for

D3Publisher of America," stated Careen Yapp, vice president of licensing and

business development for D3PA. "Our blueprint for success has always

included both original intellectual properties, as well as licensed titles

from top entertainment companies. 'Flushed Away' will be a key title for us

in 2006 and we are very pleased to be working with the DreamWorks and

Aardman Animation teams to deliver a fun gaming experience that expands on

the computer animated feature film."

"Flushed Away" is a story driven, 3rd-person action-platform game that

captures the characters and humor of the film. The games will also feature

new characters and environments that are unique to the game that will enrich

the world of "Flushed Away". The console products will be developed by

Vicious Cycle, and the handheld products will be developed by Altron and

ART.

About DreamWorks Animation's "Flushed Away"

>From DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features, the teams behind the

>worldwide hit "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit", comes the

>computer-animated comedy "Flushed Away". Blending Aardman's trademark

>style and characterizations with DreamWorks' state-of-the-art computer

>animation, "Flushed Away" is a madcap comedy set on and beneath the streets

>of London.

Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society rat" who makes his home in a posh

Kensington flat, complete with two hamster butlers named Gilbert and

Sullivan. When a common sewer rate named Syd comes spewing out of the sink

and decides he's hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest

by luring him into the "whirlpool." Syd may be an ignorant slob, but he's

no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling

sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising

scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat the Jammy Dodger.

Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her

trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad -- who royally

despises all rodents -- wants them iced ... literally. The Toad dispatches

his tow hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When

they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin --

that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog.

Talkback

Hostile CreationJanuary 31, 2006

I like how they gave away the plot of the entire movie just then.

couchmonkeyFebruary 01, 2006

Computer animation is ruining the industry. Well, for me anyway. The latest Wallace and Grommit flick was special particularly because it wasn't the 5th or 6th computer animated movie to be released in 2005. Since this has the Aardman name on it, I'll check it out, but I doubt it'll live up to the style of the hand-modelled characters in their stop-motion pictures.

JonLeungFebruary 01, 2006

There are too many CGI films this year involving animals. I don't know much about most of them, but I can recall these from memory...

The Ant Bully
Flushed Away
Ice Age 2
Open Season
Over The Hedge

It's, like, sheesh. After Madagascar everyone thinks CGI animals in a film will be a hit. If these are any good at all, they'd better space these out a bit so the crappy ones don't weigh everybody down! Crazy studios. Too bad I'm not interested enough in them to catch them in theaters. I want to see some Disney/Pixar stuff, now that they're back together! I guess Cars is still to come out, though...

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