Showtime's serial killer drama "Dexter" to be made into worthless game

Devin Coldewey

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Monday, March 3rd, 2008

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“Our game designers, writers, and artists are going to give Dexter’s morally complex world the kind of interactivity that gamers will love.”
Actually, since Dexter is a psychopath, his world is very much not complex morally. Since I assume you’d be playing the titular antihero, the very idea of the game is flawed, since the players’ emotions basically allow them to “cheat,” since they know the correct response in social situations. Unless it’s a game where the object is to emulate psychopathy, I don’t think it will be either true to the show (which is surprisingly good) or, if history is our guide, a good game. What are they going to try to game-ize next, The Wire?

Dexter Adapted for Video Game [Shack News]

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