Finally, Grease: The Video Game
News that 505 Games and Paramount Digital are bringing the musical Grease to the Nintendo Wii gives me chills – which could be multiplying.
505 Games is overseeing development on the new project, which looks to be an all-singing, all-dancing party game that takes advantage of both the Wii’s motion sensing controls and a microphone. Players will finally be able to live the dream of singing alongside Danny, Sandy, The Pink Ladies and the T-Birds. You know, the dreams we all shared 30 years ago and then quickly grew out of?
“The ‘Grease’ movie is a timeless pop culture icon, and 505 Games is eager to bring the first interactive experience based on the film to fans around the world,” said Adam Kline, president of 505 Games (U.S.). “We’re looking forward to working with Paramount Digital Entertainment to put players in the middle of all the fun with this all-new video game.”
I just hope the game is successful enough to garner a sequel covering Grease 2. I can’t wait to get together with the kids to sing timeless classics like “Reproduction” and “Let’s Do It For Our Country.”
Actually, this version of Grease is based on the original high school musical, so chances of dancing to “Cool Rider” on your Wii any time soon are slim. The announcement came with no release date attached, so we’re safe… for now.
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I predict this will be about as good as the Atari’s version of ET …
I can’t wait to tackle the issues of unwanted teenage pregenancy by waggling my wii-mote at the TV screen. Awesome!!!
if your chills are multiplying it could be epilepsy… no more video games for you
And i'm losing control!
Lipscomba
IMO, the majority of movies shouldn't be made into video games. Whatever makes that movie good tends to not translate into the game (let us all remember the ET disaster of the 80s).
PurdueMEB
You know, I just had a flashback to the DDR: The Musical, after reading about Grease: The Video Game.
Oy. Why did I have to remember that? I need a big bottle of mind bleach.
@everybody in this post:
thank you for your generosity everyone, it's just that i will not accept that anything else besides the bird is the word.
bableebooblah-new and improved.
@Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky: Mmmm... I could go for some copy-pasta right about now.
Showmeyomoves!
@Kazaam_McFresh: Sure it can. They just have to make sure they include the Knock-Rizzo-Up or maybe the Take-Rizzo-to-a-Back-Alley-Abortion-Clin... mini-game.
worsethannormal
@quidsquid: This should become the new Rick Roll.
svenhoek: Fuck Fireworks. Ghostbusting.
@quidsquid:
Why isn't this in Rock Band already!?!?!
@Kazaam_McFresh: Grease, a god-awful musical on the Wii. I think I'm going to drink gasoline.
Tye-The-Czar
@bableebooblah-new and improved.:
I love you.
@Jon: Why not go play some video games for those two hours? Or play a video game there on a portable of your choice?
@Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky: Oh c'mon! I don't think it should be only about original content but the ability to time and choose the comments perfectly!
@quidsquid:
you are an internet miracle.
but why not his tequelia song while you are at it?
bableebooblah-new and improved.
@metallicorphan: THis was what I was originally thinking it to be but right when the page was loading I thought "musical" which gave away the musical game....BUt I'd actually play it if it was like you said, after it went to the $20 or less bin, but yeah.......
@Jawmuncher: you can bet your sweet ass it will be :D
Deathbearer
@Kazaam_McFresh: Unless you like to dance and sing on the Wii, while reliving the 50's in a fictitious high school.
Pizookie
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@Fallible.: The game is supreme. The chicks'll cream.
@lucasreis:
I actually had that Spice World Game
Chills x -Control = Electrifying
@Handsome Al: Little shop of horrors is infintely better the grease.
ankhenaten
I don't want it.
"The 'Grease' movie is a timeless pop culture icon"
If it was so timeless, I wouldn't have to waste two hours watching it with my family every Christmas as tradition. I'd be able to do more important things, like throwing peanuts at crows.
I do not need to reminded about how bad this franchise is, thankyou.
Better shape up
*Ooo ooo oo*
Cos I need a *INSERT SUGGESTIVE LINE HERE THAT WOULD BE USED AT PARTIES INSTEAD OF PROPER LYRIC.*
@Handsome Al: I honestly can't disagree with you about that feeling, because now that I think about it, I would TOTALLY play a game where I could feed a sadist dentist to a giant man-eating plant.
Aww,can't we have a BULLY type open school world Grease game,it could be ...well,better
racing yer cars,trying to get rep from your gang while still trying to get rep from Sandy,which would be interesting for choices made
actually,come to think off it...Bully IS like grease
it has the carnival,the classes,the gym fights(okay so its boxing and not wrestling)..the dorks,although every school has them....
i wanna play Bully now :(
metallicorphan
@kobeashi: You were running out of things to make fun of about the Wii? Uh, you must live on the International Space Station, because down here on Planet Earth, we have plenty of good 'lol' material.
Now please don't invade our planet so you can conquer our big piles of Wii Shovelware. Errr... No, wait! Invade our planet, please! We need to get this stuff off our planet!
@Fallible.:
yeah i can't believe that i mispelled grease.
i feel like helen keller today.
i don't thik anybody's seen the movie greae.
bableebooblah-new and improved.
True story: in elementary school we had a trivia game and the question was "What famous person started his campaign in Greece and attempted to take over the world?" and some kid answered JOHN TRAVOLTA instead of Napoleon. :/
Stevie Nicks
Holy shit.
I hate to admit it but this
might be the next big thing.
Sullyville
This game is the one that I want. I can't wait to spend my Summer Nights playing this game. I will be Hand Jiving all the time while playing this game. If it's Raining on Prom Night, I'll be playing this game instead.
Look at me, I'm Sandra Wii.
And people wonder why the Wii gets a rep as a kiddie system.. lol
ShoopDaBoofs
im buying it!
I was just humming summer nights due to the summer of gaming article, guess I just summoned some demons.
Piccoroz
@Dayvie: Well, everyone knows that the bird is the word!
Grease blows. I thought this would be common knowledge by now.
AllHailShake
You all laugh now, but you won't be when this thing scores perfect 10s across the board and becomes everyone's 2009 GotY!
We're all doomed!
rhoq
This was almost perfect. It's a shame about the misspelling of Grease. :(
@bableebooblah-new and improved.: SURFIN BIIIIIIRD ALHLRHALSHRLAHRLAHSRLJHGAHGUHDG... OOOOOOHHHHHH! PAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPAPA PAPA OOO MAMAMAOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RAMONES FTW! (even though their version isn´t the original)
lucasreis - I want a twitter-less world...
@kobeashi: I own a Wii but I don´t care, even I think it´s funny.lol
lucasreis - I want a twitter-less world...
@SeraphX2: True fact!
lucasreis - I want a twitter-less world...
@lucasreis: but the ratio of good games to shovelware was much much much higher on the PS1.
This is the first game announcement in a long time that has left me not knowing what to say.
Wow...just wow.
Nslick
@kobeashi: :D
this just in 505 games closes 3 months later after games release.
Trevor Green
This game will be a guaranteed EPIC fail!
stillframenostika
@Wawa:
Don't you know about the word?
This is the game that I want (Oh, oh, ohh).
GREASE .. OH GREASE Whew!!! That's OK
For a minute I thought this post was about Grease 2 Long live Adrian ZMED!!
This will sell like whoa. I mean, I've got zero interest in it, but if they market it to the right people, I think it could do pretty well.
clank-o-tron
@MrBangBam: Dear God no. bableebooblah deserves a star, but definitely not for this. (Which is essentially copy-pasta)
Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky
I vomited several times upon receiving this news.
Grease is the word indeeBLEARG
Next on their list, Little Shop of Horrors: The Video Game. Come to think of it, I'll buy it on day one if that happens.
@bableebooblah-new and improved.: you, sir, are awesome. What's scary is that I think the exact same thing any time I see the phrase "is the word." :P
kobeashi
Sweet! That means the Grease 2 video game is that much closer to reality. I can finally die.
well....would Travolta get royalty for this as well?
@bableebooblah-new and improved.: COTW please! This is hilarious.
"News that 505 Games and Paramount Digital are bringing the musical Grease to the Nintendo Wii gives me chills - which could be multiplying."
(golf clap commences)
Shovelware fans, rejoice.
At the same time, no one seems to remember that the PS1 also had awful shovelware like Spice World. lol
lucasreis - I want a twitter-less world...
@Handsome Al:
many moons, many moons.
bableebooblah-new and improved.
THANK YOU, 505 GAMES!!!! I was running out of things to make fun of Wii owners for......lolololol
kobeashi
@bableebooblah-new and improved.: How long have you been saving that gem?
Eh, I know Grease is a popular musical, but if people are going to interact with the medium via singing and dancing shouldn't it maybe be something *already* seen as interactive?
There's only one choice: Rocky Horror Picture Show--The Video Game. It could take advantage of the Wii's motion sensing controls, a microphone, and Tim Curry. I fail to see the fail in this idea.
Zonrith
sandy, wait! you can't just walk out of a drive in movie.
Will it be as good as Dirty Dancing the PC game
@Wawa:
i'm pretty sure that the bird is the word.
bableebooblah-new and improved.
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MoeB
@bableebooblah-new and improved.: ... holy shit dude.
this seems like a horrible idea.
AWFUL is still the word.
greae is stil the word??
what the hell i thought the bird was the word!!!
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bableebooblah-new and improved.
Please. NO! I was just thinking how things like comics, video games, etc. aren't as tiresome as the movie industry with all the remakes, sequels, and adaptations, but video games are getting just as bad.
Please no, just...no.
Scarnell Sam Similien
This can't be good.
Kazaam_McFresh