Tennant Got Screwed
Not by anything regarding the Doctor Who TV series. He had a plenty long, great run, and BBC America sent me the first Matt Smith-starring episode yesterday, I watched it, and there’s nothing for anyone to complain about (review coming next week). No, I’m talking about the Doctor Who games. First, the BBC announced four free adventure games based on the new Who, and the graphics look like this:
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?Not bad, right? So why, oh why, does the Tennant-starring CG feature Dreamland, released only last year, look like this?
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?Good god. Even the blonde mannequin woman is horrified by the discrepancy. I’m not saying the new Who games are PS3 quality or anything, but they’re definitely Wii versus Playstation 1 compared to Dreamland. I say again: Tennant got screwed. But, hey, free Doctor Who games! Whee!
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.