Ubidays 07: GRAW team to work on a Beowulf game, Grendel is not amused

People enjoy giving the French a hard time about their cheese-loving pacifism and unhealthy obsession with huge, steel, phallic structures, but Ubisoft is all about thinking of new and creative ways to kill people. Just take a look at their upcoming games, discussed at the Ubidays event in Paris: Endwar, Assassin's Creed, and Haze (among others) are all, essentially, about inflicting bodily devastation to other people. 
Ubi's latest development, a game based on the upcoming Beowulf movie, is no different. Beowulf is being developed by the GRAW team and promises to "re-invent" the hack-and-slash genre and it should be "amazing". Unfortunately, we all know that this type of rhetoric at such an early stage in the game's development isn't worth a pair fetid dingoes' kidneys. Similarly, neither are my subsequent doubts abut the possibility of this being an awesome game. 
Even with Neil Gaiman's bound-to-be-excellent screenplay, movie adaptations of 1000 year old epic poetry are dodgy. When you take […]

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