Paramount Pictures holds licenses to hundreds of films: Indiana Jones, Star Trek, The Godfather, King Kong, Transformers, Top Gun, The Great Gatsby, Shrek, Beavis and Butt-head, and Crocodile Dundee. They have a catalogue that is the envy of the town. When they decided they wanted to open up their entire back catalogue to someone, they went with a game development studio that shares a warehouse space with a yoga school and a wood shop.
I heard at E3 that the new downloadable War of the Worlds game might remind people of the lovely, spooky black-and-white side-scroller Limbo. But when I saw the downloadable game at the Xbox 360 booth at the Penny Arcade Expo, I and two other passersby all made a different comparison: Out of this World.