Doomtrooper : Mutant Chronicles

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:33 am

yeah i was big into this way (waaaaaay) back, and while on a nostalgic googlesession i just recently found out theres a movie in the making!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/ a pretty impressive cast aswell..

MC was proboably the dirtiest and coolest comic universe along with LOBO, cant wait to see this.
anyone know where i can find the comic these days?

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:37 am

Mutant Chronicles had one of the best steampunk settings out there. If a movie was made that totally realized its potential it it would be the sickest, most violent, most awesome work ever comitted to film. I doubt the movie will go that far, but I'm still looking forward to it.

I've played through the run 'n gun tons of times, and had the Siege of the Citadel board game back in the day. In my understanding the series started out as a PnP RPG; not my thing, but it's good to see it's undergoing something of a revival. I've think I've heard mention of a comic adaption before, but I don't know anything about it. With my luck, its in Swedish.

black flag nc · Post by **black flag nc** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:22 am

I used to have the SNES game. Very bloody especially considering it was on the SNES.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:14 pm

Mortificator wrote:Mutant Chronicles had one of the best steampunk settings out there. If a movie was made that totally realized its potential it it would be the sickest, most violent, most awesome work ever comitted to film. I doubt the movie will go that far, but I'm still looking forward to it.

I've played through the run 'n gun tons of times, and had the Siege of the Citadel board game back in the day. In my understanding the series started out as a PnP RPG; not my thing, but it's good to see it's undergoing something of a revival. I've think I've heard mention of a comic adaption before, but I don't know anything about it. With my luck, its in Swedish.

any differences in the SNES and MD versions of the game?

yeah i also played the RPG and Card game back in the days.

i have some issues of the comic in my parents attic, it is ofcourse in swedish but i doubt it was made here? MC was pretty big in sweden tho at its prime, dunno how big of an international sucess it was?
i remember i thought the comic was great anyways, gritty, violent and with a twist of sick humor thrown in.. great artwork aswell, crazy amounts of detail and colour.

PPA · Post by **PPA** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:34 pm

sed to play it alot aswell

Im glad they making a movie.

Lets hope for some quality

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:46 pm

First I've ever heard about this, and the name (plus the movie poster) makes me think of Rogue Trooper (2000 A.D.'s strip).

I see Mishima is a megacorporation in the Mutant Chronicles universe - wonder if that's where John Romero got the idea and name for Daikatana?

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:10 pm

First page of a kanji book?

Post by **undamned** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:14 pm

When I saw the title of this thread, the first thing that popped into my mind was "Mutant Doom Troopers" for the Genny

Played quite a bit of that the other day w/ a friend.
-ud

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:59 am

One day back in the mid 90's my buddy and I went to the rental store looking for Doom on the SNES. They didn't have it, but they had Doom Troopers, and our superior intellect told us it must be the next best thing. It actually turned out to be a pretty fun Contra knockoff. Most of the fun was in the over-the-top gore factor. I mean really, the first boss kills you by flooding the screen with puke? How is that not awesome when you're 15?

Had no clue it was part of a larger universe though.

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:13 am

Considering that Doom Troopers was a decent game and SNES Doom was a terrible port, I think you lucked out.

sven666 wrote:i have some issues of the comic in my parents attic, it is ofcourse in swedish but i doubt it was made here? MC was pretty big in sweden tho at its prime, dunno how big of an international sucess it was?
i remember i thought the comic was great anyways, gritty, violent and with a twist of sick humor thrown in.. great artwork aswell, crazy amounts of detail and colour.

Hey, you're right! I found scans of the comics on Rapidshare; it was a four-issue limited series drawn by Davide Fabri and published in '96. The art does indeed kick ass.

That's what she said.

Anyway, Mutant Chronicles never became popular in the U.S., but I do remember seeing TV comercials back in its heyday. They had a guy in a cheezy Nepharite costume with the voiceover "evolution's about to take a nasty turn."

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:05 pm

cool, is it the whole comic or just a few pages?

if its teh whole thing.. mind sharing the link?

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:29 am

Hey, that looks just like those nasty flamethrowers the enemies can use (that I hate a lot).

I think I need a Strategy Update on the Genesis game...I get the general idea about what to do but it is oh so very, very hard. :P

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:50 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHiOhKNXw_A&NR=1

pretty bad fanmade shortfilm from 2006.. are there any trailers or anything from the actual movie??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFArwWFy3k
production movie..

ed: and ofcourse theres the regular youtube freakshow.. someone taking pics of his girlfriend, making a montage and setting it to the SNESgames soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YilOGh2a ... re=related

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:32 am

Jesus, if you're going to put up a sign for MUTANTS LTD. don't put it in Comic Sans.

Thanks for the links, Sven!

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:47 am

holy shit Jacqui Chan is going to be in it!!!

it290 · Post by **it290** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:03 am

Ed Oscuro wrote:Jesus, if you're going to put up a sign for MUTANTS LTD. don't put it in Comic Sans.

Hahaha... truer words were never spoken.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:27 pm

official site for the movie is up

http://www.mutantchroniclesthemovie.com/

no info on it tho but still.. watching this like a hawk.. i think the cast has some potential for atleast a decent flick