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'Chuck' Star Zachary Levi Has Some Confusing Ideas About Games
In addition to starring in NBC's show Chuck, Zachary Levi is an avid gamer. He's taking his passion to Comic-Con, where he and his company Nerd Machine are hosting Nerd HQ, an informal celebration of gaming and gaming culture. As it turns out, Levi has some thoughts on the future of video games, too. That's where things get a little strange.
In an interview with Digital Trends, Levi outlines his vision for the future. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it marries television with video games creating something that sounds an awful lot like...well, I'll let him explain it.
“What I’d love to do is make a show where we’re a part of this team of rascals that do odd jobs on the edge of the galaxy and we’re flying around in our spaceship and we’re doing our thing and then all of a sudden our ship gets attacked,” Levi says. “How cool would it be, instead of just watching the cut scene that our really talented computer graphic designers build, you could opt in and play through that same battle. Then you put your controller down and you keep watching the show. Then you get to a portion of the show where we have to go down on this planet to fight off some crazy alien monsters that are attacking a settlement, you could play a kick-ass level of a first-person shooter until you’ve defeated all the aliens and the story continues.” He adds that Kinect support could add another layer, requiring players to physically move around during certain sequences.
Levi says he has already asked his friends Seth Green and Nathan Fillion to help realize this vision, which also involves breaking the story down into a series of TV-episode length chunks.
Incidentally, does anyone else think that Levi has basically described an ordinary video game, only delivered episodically with longer cutscenes? Has he heard of Wing Commander? Or Metal Gear? Am I missing something here?
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