Doctor Who Video Game in Production
by Liam Bailey
2008-03-07 19:10:00 **news**
In an earlier article I covered how the current owners of the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider game: Sci Entertainment were axing 25% of their work-force due to falling profits, and also that they had shelved 14 new games to concentrate on their established best sellers. One game that obviously survived the chop is a new Doctor Who video game. Eidos, a company owned by Sci Entertainment today confirmed rumours that a new Doctor Who computer game is in the works.
The new Doctor Who game will no doubt carry the company's hopes that it will be a best-seller and help put the failing company back on track. Doctor Who has its faithful followers and the recent BBC series was quite popular, so the chances are the game will be a good seller, but a game like that will be bought by fans of Doctor Who, and that's it, whereas games like Tomb Raider that are a game before they have been anything else tend to do better.
The game is being released on PC, Playstation 2 and Nintendo DS, the latter two's versions will be aimed at younger players and may not have the qualities necessary to attract followers of Doctor Who from its early days, depending of course on the reviews it receives. Of course Eidos has only just confirmed rumours that the game is in production, it could surprise everyone and be one of the best and most successful video games ever made.
