“Deadliest Catch” and “Man vs. Wild” Video Games! Terror of the Unforgiving Wilderness in Your Own Home!

What better way to capture the feeling of stalking solo through the inhuman wilderness armed with only a knife and your enervated Neanderthal instincts than through an electronic game that you play on your television, while sitting down in a chair made at a factory, eating food also made at a factory?  There is none; hence, Man vs. Wild, coming to an XBox 360 near you.  And it’s not just Bear Gryllis’s trials you can experience in this ultra-realistic way:

The Deadliest Catch video game is expected to hit shelves for Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS by spring 2010. The Man v. Wild video game will be available on those systems, as well as X-Box 360, but isn’t expected until toward the end of 2011.

Deadliest Catch utilizes the full extent of the Nintendo Wii’s unique full-body motion control system, I’m sure.  Cast the Wii Remote in a “crab net-throwing motion” to throw the crab net, and then maneuver it in a “retrieving a crab net from the water motion” to retrieve the crab net from the water.  You win the game by catching enough crabs to quit your job and move away from Alaska.  My favorite part of this story:  

As for Deadliest Catch, there was a game for the X-Box 360 in 2008: Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm. But Crave executive vice president Betsi Gijanto “didn’t feel like it stayed true to the action of the show.”

“The collaboration didn’t work out.  We felt the designers were taking the game in a less deadly direction than we were comfortable with.  It was important to us that this be, bar none, the deadliest fishing video game on the market.”

We can only hope that someday such Discovery Channel staples as Ice Road Truckers and Giant Killer Animals That Kill will get the console treatment.

Source: ONTD.