{"id":86,"date":"2008-09-26T17:44:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingofgng.com\/eng\/2008\/09\/26\/dario-argento-involved-in-videogames\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T17:44:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:44:54","slug":"dario-argento-involved-in-videogames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingofgng.com\/eng\/2008\/09\/26\/dario-argento-involved-in-videogames\/","title":{"rendered":"Dario Argento involved in videogames?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"News<\/a> No, not yet, but a brief collaboration with the videogames multinational Electronic Arts<\/em> shows the keen interest of the auteur<\/strong> for the interactive entertainment and its expressive imagery. Dario Argento, one of the true masters of Italian and international motion pictures will give his voice to a characters of the localized edition of Dead Space<\/strong><\/em>, the survival horror game with which EA prepares to challenge Capcom and Resident Evil<\/em> within the next October.<\/p>\n

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Director, auteur, producer and screenwriter working since 1970, Argento is the acknowledged captain of the “giallo” genre<\/strong>, a whole Italian speciality that would be defined thriller elsewhere and that the Roman author has worked out by injecting in it the horror elements for which he’s famed at the point that he’s often called (maybe incorrectly) a “master of horror”. Not that Argento dislikes it, however: Dead Space is a title that bases a great part of its charm just on fear, horror and the encounter with terrific alien creatures within a mining spaceship.<\/p>\n

Isaac Clarke, the main character of the story, is an engineer sent by the Concordance Extraction Corporation<\/em> to inspect an alleged failure on the “Planet Cracker” class USG Ishimura<\/em> spaceship, dedicated to destroying entire planets for harvesting mining resources. How Clarke will found later, the Ishimura issue isn’t the metal of which it’s made up but flesh, the flesh in necrotic state<\/strong> that feeds the “Necromorph” alien race.<\/p>\n

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So Dead Space is a game that combines sci-fi with horror situations in the full sense of the word, and this is a context with which Argento says to have been quite at ease<\/strong>: “Dead Space is able to offer the horror essence like few other entertainment products: not only it’s the most terrific videogame I’ve ever played, but it’s also a title that all the horror fans will know how to appreciate<\/em>“, has stated<\/a> the director at the end of the dubbing session.<\/p>\n

Argento has found himself involved beyond the simple role of dubber for the character known as “Dottor Kyne”, highly regarding the game trailers and giving advices to the EA staff on how to improve the dubbing work. The result should be, at least for the Italian version, a game enjoyable from the voices acting standpoint too<\/strong> and so an even more terrific experience.<\/p>\n

Dead Space aside, the encounter of the Roman director with videogames could hereafter bring interesting surprises: Argento has praised the software house developers for the settings and the plot, showing interest for a field with remarkable expressive capabilities.<\/p>\n

The peculiar traits of the Argento’s movies are the close shots nearly unbearable in their horror, the murders seen by the eyes of the murderer (with a “first person” view not so distant from the one brought then to popularity in videogames thanks to Wolfenstein 3D<\/a> and Doom<\/a>), the flesh mangled by knives, cleavers or in case of need by any other object not to talk about the imaginative and elaborate acting of murders of the serial killer on duty. All elements, in brief, that fit well to a modern videogaming conversion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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After having completed the dubbing session on Dead Space, the director of Deep Red, Suspiria<\/a>, Phenomena<\/a> and Sleepless (Non ho sonno)<\/a> will return to work on the set of Giallo<\/em>, the movie currently in production in Turin centered on a sadistic serial killer that enjoys to torture and disfigure his young victims.<\/p>\n

Dario Argento’s movies are characterized by that hand-crafted workmanship found in the great authors but not fitting well with the needs of the modern movies full of pop-corn, computer graphics and Pharaonic budgets: considering that his best works are far-back fixed in the past, personally I couldn’t see better a direct involvement in the videogaming field<\/strong> of the director that has let me discover the fear for darkness.<\/p>\n

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