Games that should have been...Heroes

"Is there a hero somewhere, someone who appears and saves the day
Someone who holds out a hand and turns back time
Is there a hero somewhere, someone who will never walk away
Who doesn't turn a blind eye to a crime"

Poets of the Fall-Locking up the sun

Once upon a time there was supposed to be a video game based on NBC's "Heroes" by Ubisoft but sadly it died before it could be made. It would have been a really cool game especially when you look at the universe of Heroes and what it could have been for console or PC Gamers.

Tim Kring's Universe of Heroes makes it one of those places where a video game should happen in because like the show, it's like a comic book and full of possibilities. Now let's take a trip down speculation lane and imagine what could been...

HEROES: The MMO
This is one that comes the easiest to mind and I would imagine it taking place after season 3's start OR in one of the alternate timelines where everyone has abilities. The story would pick up with your character's ability activation and would involve members of the company taking you down and tagging you such as Noah Bennet aka HRG. Your story begins with Noah telling you about the others in the world with abilities like yours and that some of them are dangerous and he's letting you go because you can help him but if you double cross him you'll end up in a cell for the rest of your life or worse. This would allow for all sorts of interesting possibilities as you go on missions that help refine your abilities or put you in direct conflict with others with powers, maybe a sort of Cult of Sylar or something. You would be in an open city world kinda like the Matrix-esque and you'd occasionally run into characters like Mohinder or even Sylar. It could be a tremendously cool world as long as you had events like the Matrix MMO did and kept the player base entertained with live events and stuff that affected the whole world like maybe powers being stripped away for a few days or certain powers amped up for a day and allow for shifts in power. However a game like this would require a very strong community for it to remain viable so I can see why we didn't get the Heroes MMO...still imagine how could it could have been...

Now we move onto the next possibility of a game

Heroes:The Game
Heroes of the game would be a game similar to GTA in that it would be an open world and would feature you playing as several different characters over the course of an "arc". The plot line would likely be season 4's Fugitive's idea where one of the characters is on the run and meets up with the show's forerunners and gets intertwined into their plotlines. This could be cool and maybe run similar to the PS3's "Infamous" and gives you a choice of 20 or so powers and you get to pick 5 or so to give you kind of a cool load out or maybe make you like Peter and you can absorb other powers as you level up or something similar. This is the game I imagine we would have got and it likely would have been considered canon by the creator Tim Kring had he wrote the game's script and storyline. It could have a supremely cool game but sadly it did not come to pass.

Heroes:The mobile game
Ok,seriously who the hell cares? Am i the only that finds those mobile games kinda lame? I have only come across 2 that I like, Megaman 2 and Tetris. I downloaded a SF2 one but it was impossible to play with the keypad. I'll never get the point of mobile gaming on anything but an Iphone or similar device.

I know alot of TV and movie video game adaptions fail because of rushed programming or it's a stupid license but we've had a few such as "24:The Game" or Batman:The Animated series game. Developers and studios really need to work together to create good games and it's not a hard feat to do especially when you have a passionate team behind it. I can only hope that we do eventually see a Heroes game because it's a universe that I really want to play in at some point and kick the crap outta Sylar.
Infact I leave you with some cool and fan created because Heroes kicks ass