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Golden Compass spawns new games
 New Line Cinema's Golden Compas
is due to hit theaters on December 7, but the merchandising has already
hit the shelves. I wish I could say that the games tied to the
movie look just as cool - - but when have they ever?I really feel for the game developers - who are usually under much tighter deadlines than the movie makers to produce the game for the movie. (For an amusing look at this, listen to PLAY VALUE episode*. The movie looks to be pretty fun.... Whether the games can follow suit remains to be seen. 
Sababa Toys has their offering of a DVD based board game. You
watch the scenes on the DVD and answer questions in addition to the
board and spinner based play. Battle against Mrs. Coulter and the Magisterium to help Lyra reach her final destination with this action-packed Golden Compass DVD Board Game.
The Magisterium DVD includes original movie excerpts, 3D animations,
and a working virtual compass! Game contains sculpted pieces of your
favorite Golden Compass characters, four daemons, unique playing cards,
plastic chips, credit metre, and game board plus six smaller game
boards representing different locations from the movie! 2-4 players.  You can purchase this from theScholastic Store online for under $40. The other offering comes from SEGA. While I believe the game is probably still under massive crunch time, with delivery dates still fuzzy, the screenshots aren't promising for the movie tie-in console game:    This is the level they should be hitting:  The movie opens everywhere December 7. I'll see you in line.
*PlayValue is a podcast which was featured on NINJACRAYON Posted at 12:00AM Nov 26, 2007 by ko maruyama in Entertain | Comments[0] 
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