Unlike the movie of the same name, critics praised Escape from Butcher Bay for its engrossing first-person action and showered it with review scores in the 90th percentile. That game, also starring Diesel (who founded Tigon in 2002), was an unexpected hit on Xbox when it was released in 2004. Wheelman is being co-developed by Tigon, the same production studio that created The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. 'Is this possible? Could it be? Are you sure this game isn't made by someone other than Midway?' I ask myself. Playing the latest preview build of Wheelman to the very end-at will, even. The negative associations are all here, and from the sound of it, you'd be wise to keep this one well off your gaming radar.Īnd yet here I am. To make matters worse, it's based on a delayed movie by the same name staring Vin Diesel, and games based on movies are hardly a good thing. It's a Grand Theft Auto knock-off, which usually means you can't expect much. The game is being developed by the bankrupt Midway, which hasn't released an exciting game since Mortal Kombat II in 1993.

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