Brash sings Chipmunks' tune

By Tom Magrino, GameSpotPosted Aug 14, 2007 4:16 pm PT

Developer bringing rhythm game based on legendary rodent crooners' upcoming film to Wii, DS, PS2, and PC this December.

The kids will definitely dig this new look.

While Rock Band and Guitar Hero III have waged their ongoing epic feud, another rhythm game has been quietly in development under most people's radars: Alvin and the Chipmunks. Nearly two months after it was first spotted, the Alvin and the Chipmunks game has been officially unveiled.

While the film won't hit theaters until December 14, kids and nostalgia-seeking adults can check out Alvin and the Chipmunks for the Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, and PC on December 4. As with the film, Alvin and his crew sport a new hip-hop look, and players will be able to control the three in rhythm-based challenges set to more than 40 different songs, including "All the Small Things" by Blink 182, "It's Tricky" by Run-D.M.C., "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley, "All Star" by Smashmouth, and "Shiny Happy People" by R.E.M. The game has not yet been rated.

Brash Entertainment will be developing the games. Formed with the express purpose of raising the quality of film-to-movie tie-ins, Brash Entertainment was founded earlier this year by Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull and Internet millionaire Burt Ellis. After securing $400 million in funding in June, the studio revealed it had six projects, including adaptations for Saw and 300, as well as other "children's animated films and action-packed thrillers."

83 Comments

  • weiz

    Posted Dec 3, 2007 2:24 pm PT

    link654100, I'm pretty sure they deserve it, as Blink 182 making records disgraces all of music, past present and future. Pure garbage.

  • link654100

    Posted Nov 26, 2007 9:19 am PT

    i cant believe it....they had to disgrace Blink-182 by putting them on this :/

  • whacker40

    Posted Nov 2, 2007 5:24 pm PT

    this game is gonna suck, and suck hard at that.

  • sailor_alphac

    Posted Aug 16, 2007 10:48 am PT

    Actually, from what I remember, the chipmunks wore as their daily clothes in the 80s cartoon the same clothes they were wearing when they were first created. They really weren't dressed the way kids dressed back then. Even the Chipettes were dressed more like the adult fashion victims of the time, so this new incarnation is not just 'what the kids wear these days', NobodysFool.

    Besides, what they have Simon wearing has not been a hip-hop fashion since the early 80s, so don't pander to the movie makers and say that's how the kids dress and, therefore, it's acceptable to take another cherished childhood memory and pervert it to make a buck.

  • playstation_wii

    Posted Aug 16, 2007 8:31 am PT

    I want the movie!

  • Sonicgod

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 11:56 pm PT

    They turned the chipmunks into hip hop rappers that is lame, way lame I don't want any part if this.

    It is worse than what they did to bomberman on bomberman act zero, a lame atempt to make the look cool to young punk kids when they was fine how they are.

    The chipmunk Adventure Movie is better and renting the DVD of it is cheeper.

  • Alex4

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 9:31 pm PT

    Hey!! What about the Munchichis! ... Why don't somebody make a movie of those furry critters. It's always the moneymakers! Ahh.....
    LOL!

  • kneppi88

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 7:17 pm PT

    OMG. This outta be good.

  • Aerothorn

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 6:39 pm PT

    Poor R.E.M. The last thing they want is more people remembering them as "those guys who did Shiny Happy People". Le sigh.

    Also, the chipmunks look so incredibly stupid it's beyond belief.

  • sieg6529

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 3:50 pm PT

    Hip-hop Chipmunks? Must they continually violate my childhood memories?

  • ElHypno

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 1:50 pm PT

    I think I need a bucket to puke in.

  • vashkey

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 1:09 pm PT

    Yup... Hollywood has officialy run out of ideas...

  • el_chupacabras

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 12:24 pm PT

    So will the game have the Chip-ettes as hidden characters? I am now waiting for them to remake My little pony and Strawberry shortcake as movies. But actually just Mask.

  • NobodysFool990

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 11:20 am PT

    Don't be so hard to judge. In the time of the cartoon kids wore that type of clothes. Now a days kids wear this. Do you see kids going around dressed like in the 60's or even 50s? No. They maybe doing that for promotional reasons, you don't know. I'll have to look for myself to see if it sucks or not. And not go be what the poster says.

  • Rickioh

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 10:53 am PT

    OMG... looks so lame... i remember the good chipmunks and this dont look anything like that

  • JediAutobot

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 10:26 am PT

    Aah my eyes!
    Transformers was good maybe this will...nah.

  • Gutspuncher2

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 10:02 am PT

    wow that movie looks horrible i just want to kill those little chipmunks

  • Jaysonguy

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 9:51 am PT

    "Bruce Cambell makes everything better."

    Amen

  • Odin897

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 9:44 am PT

    For a second I thought the dude in the picture was Bruce Cambell until I clicked on it and found it was some other guy. I'll be honest with you people right now.....if they did a Chipmunks film that starred Bruce Cambell I would probably see it. Bruce Cambell makes everything better.

  • pp222

    Posted Aug 15, 2007 9:17 am PT

    diablobasher, JK is a superb writer and absolutely not a "terrible hack of a writer", and the Harry Potter books are all FANTASTIC. You're probably just to lazy to read them.

    As for this game, eh, movie look bad enough as it is. Game will probably not be that good.

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