Play Digital Golden Compass Video Review

Play Digital has a video review of the new Sega game The Golden Compass. This game is out in force showing up on every platform except the Mac. Based on the movie of the same name, this action-adventure game was developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Sega. Katharine, your video host, is a fan of the His Dark Materials trilogy which is a very precarious position to be in as you naturally tend to compare the game and the movie it’s based on to the book.

Now, as you might expect, I am a big fan of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, of which Northern Lights (mistitled as The Golden Compass in America) is the first book, and I heartily recommend them to children, or lovers of fantastical adventure or metaphysics.

While I wasn’t bowled over by the movie, I didn’t find it dreadful either, but with the dilution of quality that you usually get with each new adaptation for a different medium, can the game possibly be any good?

Join me here in Pullman’s Oxford to take a look at the 360 version before you are seduced by sin and fall into the trap of buying this one for the kiddies this Christmas.

via Play Digital