Is it just me...

[stephbg]

Or would the Tour de France make a great first person shooter video game? Please link if such a thing already exists.



Obviously you'd have a machine gun of some sort mounted on your handlebars, and the first thing you'd have to blow away are the inconvenient spectators. You'd probably have to avoid the officials, although film crews without appropriate media passes might be worth a few points.

Then you could take out your fellow competitors, but since you could only shoot them from behind you would then have to avoid becoming a victim of the subsequent pileup. I suppose you'd have to abstain from shooting your own team members, at least until everyone else was out, but there would be penalties for firing in camera range of your team's national media.

Bonus points for running over or avoiding certain messages painted on the roads.

Some kind of system for managing energy levels and effort, and taking damage from falls (boring stuff but necessary for the kid-friendly non-shooting mode). A fluid management system might also be required (with penalties for discarding full wee bottles in the vicinity of nuns).

But mostly shooting and crashes :-)

Comments

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Wow! A FPS that I could really get into!

I foresee a limited amount of ammo, too, which can only be replenished at the relief stations - so you have to choose between H2O and a clip...

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

There would be a selection of weapons and ammo, of course. I rather like the idea of a non-lethal slow-action anaesthetic dart gun.

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Right! But you can only change weapons between stages - so you have to plan for what is going to help you best in the coming stage.

Good grief. I think you might have a playable game emerging.

Any good mod-hackers out there?

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

But you can only change weapons between stages

Works for me. The precedent has certainly been set in the race itself, cos the riders use different crash-helmets on the mountain stages than on the plain stages.

Also in the mountain stages, at the top of the mountain the riders are given sheets of newspaper to stuff down their shirts to keep the wind of their torsos, to keep some of the wind off as they descend at ~100km/h. Does this count as getting a new weapon during a stage?

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

... and you're not allowed any new ammo H2O in the last 15km of each stage.

also you should get bonus points for hitting that idiot photographer who almost got run over by a cyclist yesterday.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

So many idiot photographers, so little ammo.