New Michael Jackson Game in the Works

[Spunky]

No, it's not a cash-in on the star's untimely death. It's been in production for months and has speech recorded by Jackson himself.

Since the pop star's unfortunate passing, the news publications have been providing non-stop coverage, and gaming websites have seemingly all put together requisite Michael Jackson gaming stories, looking back fondly at the Sega Genesis Moonwalker title and others.

While Jackson is sadly no longer with us, we may soon be able to relive some of his music in a new video game. Reports (as spotted by MCV) have indicated that Michael Jackson's own production company, MJJ Productions, has been working on a title for "several months," and the game even features speech he recorded for it before he died.

The game is apparently scheduled for release on home consoles for this Christmas. An MJJ Productions spokesperson commented, “I am sure it will still be released. Michael loved games.”

It's not clear exactly what kind of game this will be or what the basic gameplay will offer, but it's reportedly going to feature some of Jackson's most memorable hits. We can only guess that the game will be of the music variety, perhaps something along the lines of a SingStar or Dance Dance Revolution, since Jackson revolutionized pop singing and dancing.

Honestly, I hope it's not a singing, Or dancing game, But rather a platformer much like Moonwalker, One of my favourite platformers of all time. But it would be HIGHLY unlikely, With games like Guitar hero, Rock Band, And Singstar being incredibly popular, If i wanted to sing MJ songs, I'd blast it out on my Ipod, Instead of paying £50 for the game, And a set of microphones.

 

[Raw Power]

Singing his stuff would be so hard Really high, spot on falsetto and all those vocal tics - would be fun for a while - and a platformer would be so ridiculous - can you imagine a 3D Michael Jackson game? It would just come across and creepy and/or stupid tbh, the only musician I've heard make a game is 50 Cent and he sucks.

 

[tacosalad]

Wow..I really wasn't expecting this. Tbh, I hope it isn't anything like Moonwalker. Sure, that game was good for it's time ONLY because it had Michael Jackson in it. Period. If it had some random, made up character in it, it wouldn't have sold as well as it did. It will be interesting to see where they go with this. I'm guessing a Singstar kind of game?

 

[Bozzaholic]

with the whole video game fitness craze at the moment it wouldn't shock me if it was a DDR dance mat style of game where you have to do the dance moves to his videos