The Bachelor/Bachelorette videogames on the way
Fetch the length of hose, start the car. Because there is no God*, Warner Bros. and Ludia today announced plans to develop and publish games based on the TV dating shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. People, we are looking into the abyss.
“The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are extremely popular on television and we are looking forward to bringing the properties into the videogame space,” said John Quinn, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “These games are meant to engage fans of the show and the wider public beyond television, enriching the overall entertainment experience around the brand.”
These will be launching across various platforms following the end of The Bachelor‘s 14th season in 2010.
Chad Concelmo at Destructoid ponders how they’re going to make a game out of this, and I’m right with him. At least with other crap TV show/gaming tie-ins – think Deal or No Deal, Who Wants to be A Millionnaire? – there’s something inherently gamey about the source material. But what’s this going to be, precisely? An on-rails third-person shooter? A quick-reflex 2D fighter? There’s no obvious framework.
Unless … well, they’re inexplicably big in Japan, but could this be the west’s first popular dating sim?
* Views may vary.
[Via press release]
