Saw: The Needlessly Gory Videogame - Coming Soon

Pretty much without exception, every single videogame that's ever been based on a film or TV show has been utter cock - from Hudson Hawk on the Amiga to Family Guy on the PS2 - but nobody appears to have informed Brash Entertainment.

Brash Entertainment is a new private equity-backed videogame publisher that will focus solely on making games based on existing movies and TV shows. Already a risky move for the reason we outlined above, Brash Entertainment is making things even harder for itself by announcing that one of the first videogames it will publish will be based on the Saw franchise. No details about the Saw videogame have been announced yet, so we don't know if you'll get to play as a man slowly drowning in the putrefied remains of liquid pigs or a man who has to pull his own jaw off in a bath of acid before he explodes.

We don't want to keep telling people this, but films and videogames don't mix, as anyone who's seen Bob Hoskins dressed up as Super Mario will understand. The relationship between films and videogames is so bad that not even a movie based on megahit Halo written by the writer of 28 Days Later, executive produced by the man who directed the Lord Of The Rings movies and directed by the man who did that annoying dancing car advert can get made without the whole thing falling to pieces along the way.

Brash Entertainment doesn't care, though - it's raised $400 million and it's going to splurge that all over a bunch of TV and movie-related videogames, as Variety reports:

[Mitch] Davis and [Nicholas] Longano are serving as CEO and prexy, respectively. [Burt] Ellis and [Thomas] Tull are both on the board. All four are investors. "The folks I do business with have been watching the space for some time, trying to figure out the right vehicle to put money in," said Tull. "It's hard to think of too many other sectors with this kind of growth, and I think there are really compelling things you can do with movie-based games."

One of the first games that Brash will publish will be a Saw game, based on the movie franchise that routinely tops the weekend box office time and time again. This Saw game is something that videogame fans are already excited about, because hopefully you'd get to play the game as Jigsaw and spend most of the time dying of cancer while dishing out lame Little Book Of Calm psychobabble to justify the reason why you're making a grieving father tear chunks of frozen skin off his own face using a 20ft circular saw while chained to a bomb that's been surgically implanted up his bum in a room full of dirty syringes made of rusty shards of tin can that are on fire and covered in horse vomit. In a car that's falling out of an aeroplane. That's going to crash into a mountain. Made out of pig guts. That are on fire. God, Saw films are shit.

Luckily, though, Brash isn't just resting all its hopes on a nonsense emo game based on a ridiculous horror film. Apparently Brash has a dozen games in production with another 40 in development, which means that there'll be something for everyone. While this means that there's going to be a 300 videogame, allowing players to beat up loads of people in all sorts of different homoerotic ways, it also probably means that there'll be an Are We Done Yet? movie too before long, and that surely can't be a good thing.

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Brash Game For Hollywood - Variety