Who'll play it?

With the slo-moriffic Watchmen trailer out now and widely discussed, non-readers will be eager to miss the point further with the upcoming episodic video game prequel. It should be out around the time of the film (March 2009), available in increments on XBox Live, Playstation Network, and for PC. Looks like the game will let you partake of some pretty standard action violence as Rorschach or Nite Owl in an effort to make Watchmen roughly the same as everything else.

Zack Snyder mentioned his interest in such a thing back in March, but official press releases arrived just before the weekend.

Game dialogue is scripted by respectable comics author Len Wein, who collaborated (as editor) with Watchmen creator Alan Moore on a seminal run of Saga of the Swamp Thing in the mid-1980s. Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons is collecting a paycheck as "game advisor."