So begin the opening lines of one of the most fabled movies of the '90s indie flick movement. Most guys worth their salt have seen Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs at least once or twice (or every night for a month straight in high school for me). Considered a film dear in the hearts of film fanatics everywhere, the great mystery of Reservoir Dogs: The Game is precisely how Eidos/Volatile Games will translate an hour-and-forty-minute movie of mostly dialogue into a third-person action shooter/driving game. We'll answer some of that, as GameSpy got a chance to see it in play during E3.
For the unfamiliar, Reservoir Dogs deals with the planning and imminent fallout after a jewelry heist goes terribly awry. The film deals with how four of the six heist members and the two masterminds of the robbery all meet back up at a rendezvous point. Along the way, it's discovered that one of them is an undercover cop; one of them is a complete homicidal maniac; one of them has stashed the diamonds in a safe place; and one of them is Harvey Keitel in his most badass hour that doesn't involve him shooting up smack, cleaning corpses, or betraying messiahs.
The game itself has one strike against it, and it's one that will likely cast a dark pall over the final experience: out of all of the characters in the film, only Mr. Blonde has the likeness of the actor who played him. That means no Keitel as Mr. White, no Buscemi as Mr. Pink, no Tim Roth as Mr. Orange. Therefore, Mr. White has what appears to be a short haircut and looks damn near nothing like Harvey Keitel; Mr. Pink's pencil-thin moustache from the movie looks a lot thicker, and his hair is longer; and Mr. Orange looks slightly chubby, as though Tim Roth were trying out for Jim Morrison: The Later Years.
Having said that, the rest of the concept isn't too terrible. The game, in the vein of other movie revisionist games like Enter the Matrix (which, for all of its mediocrity, was probably the first blockbuster title to do this in recent memory), allows players to partake in missions that color in the events that are only talked about in the film. That means that players find out exactly why Mr. Blue never made it back to the warehouse. They'll discover exactly where and how Mr. Pink stashed the heist diamonds. They'll drive around and evade cops. And no, it wasn't confirmed whether or not there will be an ear-slicing mini-game.
