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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Review

This title featured several BD-J features, including a keyword search engine called Search Content, a bookmark function called Personal Scene Selections, a Trivia Track, and a first person shooter game entitled LXG Shooting Gallery, which will be the focus of this review.

This game was one of the first efforts to use BD-J by Fox, and it shows.

Blu-ray BD-J in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Use the embedded cross-hair to shoot either heroes or foes, in this rather lame, early game from Fox Studios for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. © 20th Century Fox Studios.

The game starts with you choosing to side with either Sean Connery's gang, or as one of the villains. You control a cross-hair which shoots bullets at the figures on the screen, which plays a lengthy segment from the movie. Your goal is to hit as many of the figures on the opposite side while trying to avoid hitting any people on your side. Everytime you hit an enemy, your score increments by one, but you get penalized by the same amount every time you mistakenly hit a friend. You reload by clicking on the bullet icon on the lower left hand side of the screen. For example, if you play as Sean Connery's character (Allan Quatermain), you need to keep shooting at the villains in the film, and you get one point for every figure you hit. Hitting one of your teammates, such as Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, or Dorian Gray, is an unfortunate event which lowers your score.

The main problem with this game is that because the underlying scenes are a passive element of the film, shooting any of the characters elicits no response at all from the figures, which makes you feel...well, kinda stupid. Another problem is that you can continue to shoot (and gain points) the same character over and over again in rapid succession when they stay on the screen for a long while.

In the end, this title represents a rather primitive attempt by the studio to create an innovative BD-J application. It is instructive to compare this work in late 2006 to Disney's BD-J titles like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Chicken Little in 2007, which are significantly more innovative and polished.

NOTE: All images in this article are copyright to 20th Century Fox Studios. They are not meant to correctly depict the actual representation of the movie in high-definition.

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