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Green Lantern: Augment of the Manhunters will hit shelves in summer 2011 to contest up with the approaching Green Lantern movie.

Due out next summer, the necessary video game associate to the Green Lantern movie starring Ryan Reynolds, Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters, will present players the chance to take control of the Green Lantern and play through a story that will be connected to the movie, but also follow an free storyline.

In general, video game tie-ins with movies tend to fail epically, with very few exceptions. If you are eager for something like “but this game will be the exception!” keep eager. Sure, it would be great if this game is an exception to the rule, but beyond the natural problems with a video game revision of a movie, the Green Lantern is not a character that simply lends itself to video games. Several Green Lantern games have been planned over the years, and none have made it to the shelves, and the few instances where Green Lantern is featured in a game — as with Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe --  usually have the character using their incredible enormous ring to make a giant cartoon-like hammer or a green beam of light.

By the very nature of the Green Lantern’s powers, the game would have to limit the character’s abilities to make it work in a video game. If they could manage it, the game might be worth checking out.  There is so much potential with the character, both in terms of gameplay and in the universe of the Green Lantern, that to do it correctly might be something worth taking note.  We’ll have to set aside decision until we know more.

The game’s details are still being secured, but as the title suggests, the Manhunters will be the primary intimidation. In the comics, the Manhunters are a race of robots produced by the Guardians of the Universe to keep peace before the Green Lanterns were created. The Manhunters were assigned to keep order, but they finally determined that the only way to justly keep order in the universe was to clean out all life.

Hopefully, developer Double twist games can rupture the style and create a video game movie-tie in that pleases fans and gamers alike. The game will be available on all consoles, and is likely scheduled for release approximately the time of the movie’s June 17, 2011 release date.