It's so much fun and was obviously a labor of love for the developers who added all the details to the "regular" content, but also all of the Easter egg-y hidden areas in the main campaign along with some of the later (otherwise unrelated) levels and worlds!
If Telltale were still around, they could have done wonders with the DW license. Imagine a Telltale style narrative game (akin to their others) where you play as the War Doctor during the Time War but before the Day of the Doctor's events. The lack of media around that setting, plus the moral ambiguity of that Doctor would really give the player something new to experience without it feeling out of place in the DW continuity
The butterfly effect mechanic from Until Dawn and Life is Strange would work perfectly for Doctor Who, and the dialogue themed format of adventure games would fit in with the Doctor's preference for negotiation over brute force. *The Daleks will remember that.*
"The last Dalek" on the doctor who website was legendary. Every Friday at school people would be playing it, even people who didn't watch dr who were playing!!
i always played attack of the graske on the doctor who website- it was originally a red button special that came with the Christmas invasion in 2005, but they put it on the website later on. loved it, and despite how simple it was/how many times I did it, it was still fun
It's great to see the future of Doctor Who in gaming is bright. Honestly I really do think the LEGO treatment worked best. You have puzzle solving, basic platforming, and item collecting, all which work great with the style of Who. Not to mention due to the more outlandish style of the LEGO games, you can get away with the Doctor punching Cybermen. Sadly it seems Doctor Who isn't quite a big enough property to warrant a full triple A LEGO game. Here's to hoping Edge of Time is great!
There was a _Doctor Who_ game I used to play on my Amiga in the early '90s, probably unlicensed. It involved you, as the Doctor, trying to collect the six pieces of the Key to Time before the Master. To kill enemies, you had to trick them into shooting or colliding with each other. You could also use the sonic screwdriver to freeze enemies temporarily. You had seven lives - the seven Doctors from the series, and there was a two-player mode where the second player would control random companions.
I've never been much of a 'gamer' myself but I loved The Adventure Games and The Eternity Clock, splendid visuals! Shame they never made more. Side note, I want Big Finish to pick up on the cliffhanger for The Eternity Clock one day
Fantastic work. This is DVD/Bluray feature quality. I played a lot of Dalek Attack, loved the sound effects and title sequence. I still have Destiny of the Doctors, CD-ROM, box and all. The game also included a really detailed database featuring a lot of video clips, many which hadn’t weren’t commercially released at that point (on VHS). Even though it looked a bit ropey, it was still a thrill being able to explore the TARDIS.
10:25 my favourite because you can play as all the canonical doctors during 2015. It is the closest to that we’ve ever gotten to official Lego Doctor Who game which is something that I’ve always wanted
My favourite Doctor Who "game" was the Doctor Who Bot on Skype. Just being able to chat with Twelve was a dream come true! The greatest moment, I think, is when he asked me what I had been doing for a week. I was playing it as the chapters came out every Saturday. I said, "Nothing", and he actually responded, "Nothing?!" before throwing a snarky quip at me being a human and a puddingbrain. It was worth it.
Mentioning the Web games made me remember the Google doodle they did for the 50th. That was actually rather enjoyable for what it was-though yes, a step outside the remit of this discussion. What's frustrating about Who games is that the few times someone actually gets the right end of the stick, the project gets sidetracked and tapers off before it's complete. The Adventure Games were actually quite good for their part, with some good talent behind them. Legacy also was on a good roll for a while, until it got hung up on the weird add-on elements and just began to spin its wheels. The show is a strange concept to adapt to existing design templates, and tends to require a level of lateral thinking that isn't going to be happening too much with the low commercial bids the BBC will receive for the license. The tack they used with The Adventure games, actively seeking talented developers with experience in the right kind of design-it's gonna take either more of that or some clever indie darlings to make the right pitch before anything really translates the show's appeal into a set of rules that are worth exploring in their own right.
Fallout Who Vegas DEFINITELY needs a mention in a future episode. That thing is an extremely fleshed out TARDIS/Time Lord simulator, and is arguably the best Doctor Who experience out there (even if you're not playing as the Doctor) If y'all have never heard of it, do look it up. It's very good.
I think that the best way to make a Doctor Who game is to make it a single-player RPG with a heavy focus on story and exploration. It could be like Mass Effect where you can travel to all sorts of different planets and complete side quests for experience. Leveling up would let you increase your skills like hacking, repair, persuasion, combat, etc. There could also be a character creator that would let you customize the doctor’s appearance to look like you, as if you’re the newest doctor who! Or you could choose from a bunch of pre-sets designed to look like the previous doctors from the show.
And Josh, PLEASE do unofficial fan games and unlicensed games! There was a second Doctor Who maze game for the Commodore Amiga. Simple but rather amusing. The voice clip they used for the Master's laugh was hysterical.
My favourite game is TARDIS Flight Classic. It's a roblox role play game where you can role play as which ever doctor, companion, or character you want! You can also create your own tardis interior in it
Nice video. Ages ago I had a video game called “Daleks”. It was a unique game where you were in a room with a bunch of Daleks that would move straight toward you and you tried to get them to crash into each other so that you could hide behind the wreckage. It ran on the original 128k Mac. I don’t know who made it, but I thought it was an official game.
I've never had much time or opportunity to play much in the way of video games, but recall seeing adverts and pictures from the various games you show here. Thank you for this exceptionally well-made video, which archives so much stuff I missed out on and always wondered about!
Great video. Doctor Who: Legacy was a really great game that more than anything really delved into the history of Doctor Who. It is missed. Doctor Who Infinity is a pale comparison.
Never even knew there was dr who games. I'm relatively new to the dr who fandom. Only ever watched some of the david tennant episodes but I was really young. Since jodie whittaker has been the dr, I have been watching. I can't wait till it comes back on again.
You forgot to mention that Julian Bleach also returned as Davros for the Lego Dimensions level pack. In terms of a favorite game, I definitely like Doctor Who Legacy (I should download it again) and the content in Lego Dimensions is also very fun, because all the characters get to be a bit more sillier since it's Lego. Despite older Doctors not coming back to do their voices it's nice that the game re-used some of their most iconic lines. And this is fun with especially the first three Doctors. What a pleasant surprise to hear William Hartnell again as the Doctor years after his passing.
In the late 90s, early 2000’s, the BBC released an official Doctor Who screensaver game for either windows 95 or windows 98. In it, you controlled K9 on a grid of two colors - and the Daleks were trying to turn the grid a different color. You could also shoot the Daleks with K9.
Great video as always Josh :) I think Doctor Who would work better as an open world 3D games with an ever expanding universe (DLC) and also as an RTS/RTT where you control the many militaries of many aliens you can either fight for good or evil conquer or liberate?
Glad at least an advert for the Pinball game made it in! That blew my mind when I was a kid and saw it for the first time! Sadly, the only video games I really played for Who were Legacy and Worlds in Time, though not terribly much of each as my life was quite busy back then.
This video reminded me of a dinky little handheld DS-type TARDIS thingy (I really can't describe it) and I played it all the time back when I was a kid and David Tennant was still the doctor so must've been released around 2007-8. It was basically a bunch of mini-games where you'd play as the tenth doctor and go through some of the stories like the wire and the runaway bride. It was really cool and I need to either find mine or get my hands on it again.
It's hard to understate that Lego Dimensions simply did a better Doctor Who game than almost everyone else. Doctor Who was one of the first level packs released, the Doctor was part of the main storyline, and was still getting DW content even as late as in the Goonies pack, with the Evil of the Daleks levels.
Honestly, Destiny of the Doctors is my favorite. I have massive nostalgia for the blocky, polygonal graphics of the late '90s, sure. But Anthony Ainley's final performance as the Master is brilliant. The cutscenes even imply that the events of the game lead into his capture and execution at the beginning of the TV movie.
I haven't played all the Doctor Who games out there but I really liked Destiny of the Doctors. Although the 3D was a bit ropy, I loved Anthony Ainley's input and the various Doctors who added their voices. The game itself was quite fun, glitches aside! It's a shame this won't play very well on Windows 10.
Doctor who is just so hard to adapt! I think it would be interesting to see an open world doctor who game. Maybe instanced based open worlds like the outer worlds with mystery game elements like the frog ware games? Or a telltale style game?
If I were to make a Doctor who video game then I would have like 3 missions for each doctor from 1 to 14 (yes I say the 14th doctor) and then like an adventure mode where you can choose to be any of the doctors or you could make your own timelord then you could choose any tardis or you could build your own by mixing and matching the console and the rooms and such also you get to make a sonic or use one of the doctors Sonics then there’s another mode sandbox where you choose your tardis and timelord and then you can do what ever if you think this is a good idea for a game I want to know if you would buy it and play it? Edit:I thought of another game mode idea, online where you build everything and make everything like your sonic,tardis and you.
If you find that underwhelming i recommend either the TARDIS or DALEK mod for Minecraft java, which offer many features, probably the closest thing you can get to a modern doctor who game
I hope In he future we get a Doctor Who free roaming game, where we can collect various doctors, companions and enemies from the 56 years of the show also visit other worlds from the show
Out of the games in the video, I'm going to say that Lego Dimensions was the best out of the ones I've played personally, even if it's just for the changing Doctors and TARDIS interiors and playing Keff's theme while flying around in the TARDIS. However, if the BBC website games were included in this video, they would win hands down.
Having been at the demo and talk for the edge of time at comic con I can say I'm very interested in it. Seems like a very neat concept and has some stunning visuals. Apparently it has something to do with the new series (12) and has a very strong budget which most of dw games seem to lack.
I had no idea there were so many DW games! My first computer was a Commodore 64 - I missed out. :-(. I do have Destiny of the Doctors somewhere though. I paid $5 for it at the supermarket. I want the sonic screwdriver wiimote! I adore the Lego games, and so does my youngest son. He was given Lego Dimensions for WiiU and it was all he played for months. Even now, if he plays it, his favourite character is the Doctor and his favourite vehicle the TARDIS.
List Of Games (in order of release): Doctor Who: The First Adventure Doctor Who And The Warlord Doctor Who And The Mines Of Terror Doctor Who: Dalek Attack Doctor Who: Destiny Of The Doctors Top Trumps: Doctor Who Edition Doctor Who: The Adventure Games Doctor Who: Return To Earth Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth Doctor Who: The Mazes Of Time Doctor Who: Worlds In Time Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock Doctor Who: Legacy Lego Dimensions: Doctor Who Expansion Doctor Who: Infinity Doctor Who: The Runaway Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
Brilliant video, Josh. As well as a big DW fan I am a BBC B fan, having owned one since a boy (that dates me!) so this video is of double interest to me. Fascinating to see how 'Who has been adapted for the video game market over the years but never yet quite found it's niece. The excellent Larry Bundy Jr. did a really good video covering 'Doctor Who' games a few years ago now, but it was Part 1 of a series, and he never completed it. He did mention, though, that the "first" Doctor Who game was a (totally unlicensed) type-it-in-yourself game from an old computer magazine in the early 1980s (yes, people used to sit and type in their own games in those days!) I did inherit 'The First Adventure' later in the BBC's life second hand; played it once. Rubbish. A tacky collection of game clones with the 'Doctor Who' licence whacked on top and a (nonsensical) story trying to thread the games together. Looked horrible and dated even when released and boring to play, I think sales dipping due to the fifth Doctor being on the cover was maybe a convenient excuse when in reality it was just a pretty naff release. (It might have actually fared better totally away from the DW license welded on, instead just being a collection of mini-games). I was a huge text adventure fan so warmed to 'The Warlord' a lot more. (BTW they are actually one game technically, as the second half picks up from the end of the first, and you can't complete the second half without things learned from the first half). 'The Mines of Terror' sticks in my mind as it was a $%*! to get running - it required an extra chip that came with the game to be inserted in order for it to run (production of these chips was one of the reason Micro Power ended up going bust), but the chip was very fussy and could cause problems with - or be cancelled out by - pre-existing chips in the computer. I'd loved 'Castle Quest', of which 'Mines' originally began life as a sequel too, but 'Mines' was just too complicated for it's own good for me to ever get very far or have much interest in. (BTW, as well as the obvious Dalek clones, Splinx the robotic cat is also an obvious stand-in for K-9, who they also couldn't afford the licensing rights to!) A side-note in case you ever choose to cover the "unofficial" DW games, another BBC/Electron game, 'Escape from Moonbase Alpha' (1983) features the Doctor (in Tom Baker guise), as well as the TARDIS, and Dalek-clones. Not license played for (in the days before things were so tight), it also includes unlicensed appearances from The Incredible Hulk, and a clone of Evil Edna from children's TV series 'Willo the Wisp'! I have a nagging feeling that there's one game missing from the list in the video, a quiz based game, but I just can't recall it... maybe I'm just getting confused with 'Destiny of the Doctors'. Either way, love this video and your branching out into different DW media. It's strange how the franchise has never fully found it's footing in the computer games market (then again, 'Star Trek' has completely either). As a massive fan of the point-and-click adventure/puzzle-solving genre, I've always felt that DW would have been perfectly suited to that genre - and is arguably one of the only genre's that 'Star Trek' has fared well on the games market, too.
Doctor Who would make an amazing open world RPG. With the incredible processing power of the new gen consoles the game could be massive. Traveling the universe in the T.A.R.D.I.S. with a companion, exploring whenever and wherever you like, encountering all of the iconic villains...damn that would be so friggin' stellar! 🤞Fingers crossed🤞 hoping this dream will become reality sometime in the near future. If I ever win the lottery I'm definitely going to fund the creation of a mind blowing Doctor Who game.
Favourite Doctor Who game? Odd pick but Fallout Who Vegas It's more of an expansion than a mod and it may be a fan game but the TARDIS sim elements are really good and the quests are fun
I think they need to make a free roam doctor who game where you can fly the Tardis and to to different planet (like no man sky) and when you get out the Tardis theres a problem you as the doctor needs to fix and you can choose your own company out of ever npc in the game
You also had Doctor Who: Battle of Time for iOS/Android by Bandai Namco and on a side note Torchwood: Web of Lies also for iOS/Android. I believe Top Trumps: Doctor Who was available for Java phones.
My favourite used to be the BBC Website ones. The Dalek one where you go round killing everyone. The Strategy game where you play as Cybermen in Doomsday. Attack of the Graske. And of course Mickey Smith and the small Robot that he controls and many, many, more. I remember the Adventure games and watching reviews by like MrTardis and remembering how incredible they were. Free in the UK but about 30 quid on Steam. Might buy that actually
My son loves the LEGO Dimensions mod. We even have the TARDIS console LEGO set! I'm old enough to still have the Doctor Who board game, the Game of Time & Space, with Tom Baker on the box. Anyone else own that one? Lots of happy memories of some of these!
How about the Doctor Who pinball game? It's not a video Game, per-se, (Although there are limited video segments where you have to shoot Daleks, or run away from them, shown on the LCD screen on the backboard ) but it is a famous Doctor Who arcade game. A good friend of mine used to own one. It was great fun to play!
AubreySciFi Love that game - and you can play it on your tablet/computer with one of those pinball app things (can’t remember which one, but they *also* have a newer DW pinball game with 12 and Missy, the name of which escapes me. Not sure if it really exists or if they just made it for the app.) The old DW pinball game in particular might actually be the best DW game of any kind, for the simple reason that it’s just a really, really good pinball game.
I have memories of quite a few of these - including Top Trumps on PS2! I always turned to The Mazes of Time during the school lunch hour, unfortunately you can’t even play it anymore as it can’t be downloaded from the Apple Store! There was a whole thing with the Adventure Games being considered a part of the series and given episodic designations (5.14 for example) that was discussed a lot at the time.
Ever since I first played Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on the X-BOX back in the early 2000s, I determined that a similar game would work wonders with a Doctor Who theme. Playing Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim has only served to firm and confirm my opinion that if BBC and Bethesda got together, we'd have a truly workable and wonderful open world, open travel video game that is loyal to many of the concepts of Doctor Who (1963-2017) and allow a player to choose whether they wanted to be an evil Time Lord/Lady or a friend to the Doctor or a good Time Lord/Lady, with different attributes and abilities for each.
OK this might be super obscure but does anybody remember The Beginning or The Five Doctors games? They weren't flash games because I remember having them downloaded and I guess they were fan made. In The Beginning you played through the Tribe of Gum (or that's as far as I got) and in Five Doctors there were levels from Tomb of the Cybermen, Three Doctors and Genesis of the Daleks (from memory). You could sneak through Davros's lab and get your foot caught in the clam and in the Tomb level I remember a soundbite from Troughton (the "they must be fought" clip) playing before the Cybermen were released. I can't find anything online about these please help.
I'll never forget the coverage of Dalek Attack in DWM, with the full page adverts showing the amazing graphics and gameplay. Unfortunately it seems that it was just the Amiga that got that amazing version and since my family only owned an old Sinclair Spectrum we got a substandard black and white version.
Nice to see a detailed history of video games. It is a subject not often discussed and there have been many releases in this sphere. I recall the home computer boom of the early 80s and owned a BBC Micro and a ZX Spectrum. I once made a couple of games for the Spectrum based on The Visitation and Black Orchid, but never finished them. I recall drawing a plague village and a cricket pitch! The marketing of the original computer game seems very odd. I remember seeing information about it in the Radio Times 20th Anniversary Special in 1983. They must surely have been aware of Davison!s upcoming departure from the show as he announced it nearly 9 months before he actually left. I used to think the game was perhaps based on The Caves of Androzani as there is footage from a BBC Micro in that serial! There again, there is that moment in Logopolis where the Doctor shows Adric that the Tardis could become a pyramid, using graphics I believe developed on a BBC A computer. The BBC Micro was designated BBC B. Talking of Top Trumps, I had the 1978 traditional card version featuring Tom Baker - one of the first pieces of Who merchandise I ever bought. My brother has Lego Dimensions and we enjoy playing as the different Doctors. My niece always wants to be David Tennant, I prefer to be Pat Troughton or Tom Baker and my brother Peter Davison or Sylvester McCoy. Looking forward to your next video!
I loved Dalek Attack. I had it on the Amiga and sometimes would just boot it up for the intro. I've still got my copy of Eternity Clock kicking around too
I feel like the major difficulty the series often faces with video games is that with the many enemies the franchise has, they can't usually be combated in a consistent way- such as out right attacks which doesn't exactly "fit in" with Doctor Who's vibe at least if you want to be playing as The Doctor. Maybe a FPS/TPS game where you play as members of Torchwood or UNIT would work but then that could very easily fall into seeming like a generic shooter unless given to the right kind of studio. Without typical combat mechanics platforming, collecting, and mini-games seem like the way to go, but with a small budget may usually end up feeling like "shovelware" or microtransaction mobile games. Lego Dimensions is able to get away with things a little more due to its cartoonyness. While there are many games that don't rely on or have little to know combat that are great its usually because they are able to make their own story around it and not have to sorry about making a particular existing franchise work with it. I'd love to see something bigger from Doctor Who in gaming but its going to be a tough nut to crack.
May I recommend that you look into Fallout Who Vegas. It's a mod for Fallout New Vegas that acts as both a Tardis Sim and it has a very fun and interesting story behind it.
I still say a Star Wars: Battlefront-esque or Battle Royale game where it's just all the major villain factions duking it out would make for a pretty good gameplay loop.
As a games designer this interests me. The BBC has revived the series and it always has seemed it could be so much more... The scope to deliver narrative and use ludology is ... Well... That is maybe the problem. The IP is so daunting... The fanbase so huge and varied... How do you even start? How do you offset the deep narrative whilst still giving a player agency? This is where early games go wrong. Telltale Games style games are probably some of the best examples of how something that is heavy in narrative can still have agency. The other problem is do you play as the Doctor? Or let the player be a companion? I have often thought of a Metal Gear style Doctor Who game. Third person where running and stealth are needed. Where puzzles must be solved to advance. For the older games... I never understood why they never tried a Beneath A Steel Sky style point and click adventure. I will say there are currently things in development at a couple of Devs. With the actress that plays Yasmin (Mandip Gill) also now starring in another game by Wales Interactive called Five Dates. So there are things rumbling and who knows what the future may bring. But the gaming industry is something the BBC are now seeing as being another revenue stream given the growing unrest in the UK regarding licensing fees. For anyone unaware - we don't get a choice in the UK. You have to pay a TV license whether you want to or not. So the BBC have to keep in mind that they may lose a hell of a lot of money should they lose the license.
I loved the Doctor Who level pack for Lego Dimensions, it was a lot of fun. The game in full was a lot of fun, I would love to see the developers of the Lego games do a full Doctor Who game, they fairly have a knack for making fun games with a lot of love and care for the respective settings and themes so they could be the ones to truly deliver an excellent Doctor Who game worthy of the name. If they ever did that any way.
Destiny of the Doctors has to be my absolute favourite! It came along at just the right time and in many ways helped me to understand and figure out how to properly use my PC!!
Some of my favourite things. Doctor Who, Video games, Lego, SEGA! Also one of the games with Doctor Who refrences in is Minecraft (the best ever game) with the now defunct Doctor Who skin pack 1 and 2.
I never got around to the Eternity Clock, since it has rarely (maybe never) actually gone on sale. It's just sat at full price forever, despite the negative reviews. I remember the developers hyping this up before it came out, and in the end all they could come up with is a buggy 2D platformer, a genre which had been pretty much mastered two decades earlier. I'd love to see a game worthy of the Doctor Who IP come out some day. Something big and epic that just celebrates the show's long history. Doctor Who Legacy has pretty much come the closest to hitting that mark.
If I ever became super-duper-wealthy, I'd pay BBC licensing whatever and pay Rockstar Games or Bethesda to create a fully-realized, open-sandbox DOCTOR WHO game in the vein of Skyrim or Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption 2 (in terms of freedom and open-world interaction). You could even expand on the time/space continuum availability by having online features that the companies hold on their servers, creating an even more immense and seemingly infinite temporal universe to explore. You play The Doctor, of course. You could start with your favorite incarnation or play "Story Mode" and start with Hartnell's Doctor. Naturally as you play, if you get to the point of death, you regenerate into the next Doctor and go on playing. You could dress each incarnation in whatever fashion you desired (throw Tom Baker's scarf on Capaldi, Tennant could wear celery on his lapel, etc.) and maybe if you acquired enough "Scrolls of Rassilon" (LOL) old "K'anpo" (from Pertwee's era) would appear and help you regenerate into a create-a-Doctor mode, where you design your own incarnation of The Doctor. Or maybe you go to see the Sisterhood of Karn and they help you change as you desire? Fat or Thin? Young or old? Doctor or Warrior? Your choice. Of course, I'd pay billions to have ALL Doctor Who characters be voiced by their original actor where possible. DLC could be new timezones or adventures available. Maybe DLC would even be recreations of actual episodes you could interact in with your Doctor? The possibilities with modern tech is endless. Even with DW. Overall, that's my ultimate Doctor Who game fantasy.
Dude your idea sounds perfect. Another idea I'd add is a Time War game, ideally would be a multiplayer online shooter, where you would play as either a Time Lord soldier, Dalek, Sontaran, Cyberman etc. and essentially have go to war in space by using a spaceship with shooting ability or on a planet on foot with a weapon. That would be my first gaming void that needs to be filled, yours being the second. I'd add to your idea the option to be the Doctor's companion and choose what race you'd be (a human, fellow Time Lord or other). That'd just be sweet.
It's pretty sad that Lego Dimensions is probably the best Doctor Who video game.
It's so much fun and was obviously a labor of love for the developers who added all the details to the "regular" content, but also all of the Easter egg-y hidden areas in the main campaign along with some of the later (otherwise unrelated) levels and worlds!
I hope that they make a Lego doctor who game one day what do you think
You can tell the people who made Lego dimensions are HUGE doctor who fans. So many amazing and obscure Easter eggs
what about edge in time
I think the best is the DS one earth evacuation.
If Telltale were still around, they could have done wonders with the DW license. Imagine a Telltale style narrative game (akin to their others) where you play as the War Doctor during the Time War but before the Day of the Doctor's events. The lack of media around that setting, plus the moral ambiguity of that Doctor would really give the player something new to experience without it feeling out of place in the DW continuity
lack of media are you kidding me, go listen to big finish their are so many time war story's
Ik this comment is 2 years old but I am gushing over this idea it’s a shame telltale shut down
The butterfly effect mechanic from Until Dawn and Life is Strange would work perfectly for Doctor Who, and the dialogue themed format of adventure games would fit in with the Doctor's preference for negotiation over brute force.
*The Daleks will remember that.*
@@wiovelli Telltale is back!
I always though a doctor who game in the telltale style would work.
i agree
*K-9 will remember that.
"The last Dalek" on the doctor who website was legendary. Every Friday at school people would be playing it, even people who didn't watch dr who were playing!!
Omg you've sent me backkk
yeah man! scrolled down to look for this
Duncan 101 it’s still playable now.
This was a great game
i always played attack of the graske on the doctor who website- it was originally a red button special that came with the Christmas invasion in 2005, but they put it on the website later on. loved it, and despite how simple it was/how many times I did it, it was still fun
While you talked about Destiny of the Doctors, I was mildly surprised you didn't mention that was the last time Anthony Ainley was the Master.
It's great to see the future of Doctor Who in gaming is bright. Honestly I really do think the LEGO treatment worked best. You have puzzle solving, basic platforming, and item collecting, all which work great with the style of Who. Not to mention due to the more outlandish style of the LEGO games, you can get away with the Doctor punching Cybermen. Sadly it seems Doctor Who isn't quite a big enough property to warrant a full triple A LEGO game. Here's to hoping Edge of Time is great!
Well done for getting The Edge of Time into the vid on such short notice haha
Dalek attack is still my favourite Doctor Who game but it's really difficult.
There was a _Doctor Who_ game I used to play on my Amiga in the early '90s, probably unlicensed. It involved you, as the Doctor, trying to collect the six pieces of the Key to Time before the Master. To kill enemies, you had to trick them into shooting or colliding with each other. You could also use the sonic screwdriver to freeze enemies temporarily. You had seven lives - the seven Doctors from the series, and there was a two-player mode where the second player would control random companions.
Singapores fate is still unknown...
That's his new catchphrase.
What about Hong Kong?? Thank Baker for the African countries :)
@@Harbourmaster68 We know they're fucked since 97
I've never been much of a 'gamer' myself but I loved The Adventure Games and The Eternity Clock, splendid visuals! Shame they never made more.
Side note, I want Big Finish to pick up on the cliffhanger for The Eternity Clock one day
I really liked the Doctor Who game google made for the 50th. I especially liked that when you died you just regenerated in to the next doctor along :D
I remember that!
Please do tell me more it sounds awesome i like to know more about it
Fantastic work. This is DVD/Bluray feature quality.
I played a lot of Dalek Attack, loved the sound effects and title sequence.
I still have Destiny of the Doctors, CD-ROM, box and all. The game also included a really detailed database featuring a lot of video clips, many which hadn’t weren’t commercially released at that point (on VHS). Even though it looked a bit ropey, it was still a thrill being able to explore the TARDIS.
10:25 my favourite because you can play as all the canonical doctors during 2015. It is the closest to that we’ve ever gotten to official Lego Doctor Who game which is something that I’ve always wanted
My favourite Doctor Who "game" was the Doctor Who Bot on Skype. Just being able to chat with Twelve was a dream come true! The greatest moment, I think, is when he asked me what I had been doing for a week. I was playing it as the chapters came out every Saturday. I said, "Nothing", and he actually responded, "Nothing?!" before throwing a snarky quip at me being a human and a puddingbrain.
It was worth it.
Mentioning the Web games made me remember the Google doodle they did for the 50th. That was actually rather enjoyable for what it was-though yes, a step outside the remit of this discussion.
What's frustrating about Who games is that the few times someone actually gets the right end of the stick, the project gets sidetracked and tapers off before it's complete. The Adventure Games were actually quite good for their part, with some good talent behind them. Legacy also was on a good roll for a while, until it got hung up on the weird add-on elements and just began to spin its wheels.
The show is a strange concept to adapt to existing design templates, and tends to require a level of lateral thinking that isn't going to be happening too much with the low commercial bids the BBC will receive for the license. The tack they used with The Adventure games, actively seeking talented developers with experience in the right kind of design-it's gonna take either more of that or some clever indie darlings to make the right pitch before anything really translates the show's appeal into a set of rules that are worth exploring in their own right.
Still available... www.google.com/doodles/doctor-whos-50th-anniversary
Doctor Who pinball is still my favorite. It has a storyline and purpose. Not just high scores.
Tbh fallout who Vegas, despite not being official deserves a place on this list.
Fallout Who Vegas DEFINITELY needs a mention in a future episode.
That thing is an extremely fleshed out TARDIS/Time Lord simulator, and is arguably the best Doctor Who experience out there (even if you're not playing as the Doctor)
If y'all have never heard of it, do look it up. It's very good.
Did anyone play the doctor who game when you could go into the Tardis with David Tennant?? That game was epic 😂
What’s it called?
@@kieran_is_me Attack of the Graske
Bob Dallas cool thanks man 👍
I think that the best way to make a Doctor Who game is to make it a single-player RPG with a heavy focus on story and exploration. It could be like Mass Effect where you can travel to all sorts of different planets and complete side quests for experience. Leveling up would let you increase your skills like hacking, repair, persuasion, combat, etc. There could also be a character creator that would let you customize the doctor’s appearance to look like you, as if you’re the newest doctor who! Or you could choose from a bunch of pre-sets designed to look like the previous doctors from the show.
And Josh, PLEASE do unofficial fan games and unlicensed games! There was a second Doctor Who maze game for the Commodore Amiga. Simple but rather amusing. The voice clip they used for the Master's laugh was hysterical.
Also fallout who Vegas is a whole thing unto itself
My favourite game is TARDIS Flight Classic. It's a roblox role play game where you can role play as which ever doctor, companion, or character you want! You can also create your own tardis interior in it
My favourite game from this list is probably Lego Dimensions, atleast at this point in time. But I'm excited to see what they do with the VR game.
Doctor who was the reason I bought Lego dimensions.
Haven't played Logo dimensions but the dr who adventure games were pretty good imo
I think The Adventure Games is my favourite :D
Nice video. Ages ago I had a video game called “Daleks”. It was a unique game where you were in a room with a bunch of Daleks that would move straight toward you and you tried to get them to crash into each other so that you could hide behind the wreckage. It ran on the original 128k Mac. I don’t know who made it, but I thought it was an official game.
I've never had much time or opportunity to play much in the way of video games, but recall seeing adverts and pictures from the various games you show here. Thank you for this exceptionally well-made video, which archives so much stuff I missed out on and always wondered about!
Do you have a TARDIS because my god do you make videos fast
And not rushed fast either - well researched and quality output too! :)
I actually made this before the game was announced and had to re edit it to add the new info!
I must of had a psychic link with the Dr Who team 😂
Great video. Doctor Who: Legacy was a really great game that more than anything really delved into the history of Doctor Who. It is missed. Doctor Who Infinity is a pale comparison.
Never even knew there was dr who games. I'm relatively new to the dr who fandom. Only ever watched some of the david tennant episodes but I was really young. Since jodie whittaker has been the dr, I have been watching. I can't wait till it comes back on again.
I'm happy you're enjoying the show!
You forgot to mention that Julian Bleach also returned as Davros for the Lego Dimensions level pack.
In terms of a favorite game, I definitely like Doctor Who Legacy (I should download it again) and the content in Lego Dimensions is also very fun, because all the characters get to be a bit more sillier since it's Lego. Despite older Doctors not coming back to do their voices it's nice that the game re-used some of their most iconic lines. And this is fun with especially the first three Doctors. What a pleasant surprise to hear William Hartnell again as the Doctor years after his passing.
I have the Doctor Who Pinball Machine.
Xtra Spice Mikey I have the full size pinball machine.
Same
In the late 90s, early 2000’s, the BBC released an official Doctor Who screensaver game for either windows 95 or windows 98. In it, you controlled K9 on a grid of two colors - and the Daleks were trying to turn the grid a different color. You could also shoot the Daleks with K9.
Great video as always Josh :)
I think Doctor Who would work better as an open world 3D games with an ever expanding universe (DLC) and also as an RTS/RTT where you control the many militaries of many aliens you can either fight for good or evil conquer or liberate?
Glad at least an advert for the Pinball game made it in! That blew my mind when I was a kid and saw it for the first time!
Sadly, the only video games I really played for Who were Legacy and Worlds in Time, though not terribly much of each as my life was quite busy back then.
Thirteen in The Runaway looks like Rapunzel from Tangled.
(by the way - this is a really well-made video. nice editing/production - love the DW themed “game room” vibe.)
This video reminded me of a dinky little handheld DS-type TARDIS thingy (I really can't describe it) and I played it all the time back when I was a kid and David Tennant was still the doctor so must've been released around 2007-8. It was basically a bunch of mini-games where you'd play as the tenth doctor and go through some of the stories like the wire and the runaway bride. It was really cool and I need to either find mine or get my hands on it again.
I wish they did a entire Lego doctor who game the mechanics and designs are perfect for it
It's hard to understate that Lego Dimensions simply did a better Doctor Who game than almost everyone else. Doctor Who was one of the first level packs released, the Doctor was part of the main storyline, and was still getting DW content even as late as in the Goonies pack, with the Evil of the Daleks levels.
Yeah I had no idea that The Goonies added thing was even a thing until i was researching for this video!
The doctor who vr game is pretty damn good at least by vr game standards. (Yes I know this vid came out before it’s release)
The adventure games are so nostalgic. Used to play that all the time.
Honestly, Destiny of the Doctors is my favorite. I have massive nostalgia for the blocky, polygonal graphics of the late '90s, sure. But Anthony Ainley's final performance as the Master is brilliant. The cutscenes even imply that the events of the game lead into his capture and execution at the beginning of the TV movie.
I haven't played all the Doctor Who games out there but I really liked Destiny of the Doctors. Although the 3D was a bit ropy, I loved Anthony Ainley's input and the various Doctors who added their voices. The game itself was quite fun, glitches aside! It's a shame this won't play very well on Windows 10.
Doctor who is just so hard to adapt! I think it would be interesting to see an open world doctor who game. Maybe instanced based open worlds like the outer worlds with mystery game elements like the frog ware games? Or a telltale style game?
If I were to make a Doctor who video game then I would have like 3 missions for each doctor from 1 to 14 (yes I say the 14th doctor) and then like an adventure mode where you can choose to be any of the doctors or you could make your own timelord then you could choose any tardis or you could build your own by mixing and matching the console and the rooms and such also you get to make a sonic or use one of the doctors Sonics then there’s another mode sandbox where you choose your tardis and timelord and then you can do what ever if you think this is a good idea for a game I want to know if you would buy it and play it?
Edit:I thought of another game mode idea, online where you build everything and make everything like your sonic,tardis and you.
If you find that underwhelming i recommend either the TARDIS or DALEK mod for Minecraft java, which offer many features, probably the closest thing you can get to a modern doctor who game
I hope In he future we get a Doctor Who free roaming game, where we can collect various doctors, companions and enemies from the 56 years of the show also visit other worlds from the show
I think Torchwood would make a good video game, tbh
oddly one of my earliest doctor who online memories was playing that dalek game on the BBC website bloody loved it!
Out of the games in the video, I'm going to say that Lego Dimensions was the best out of the ones I've played personally, even if it's just for the changing Doctors and TARDIS interiors and playing Keff's theme while flying around in the TARDIS. However, if the BBC website games were included in this video, they would win hands down.
Having been at the demo and talk for the edge of time at comic con I can say I'm very interested in it. Seems like a very neat concept and has some stunning visuals. Apparently it has something to do with the new series (12) and has a very strong budget which most of dw games seem to lack.
Nice!
I had no idea there were so many DW games! My first computer was a Commodore 64 - I missed out. :-(. I do have Destiny of the Doctors somewhere though. I paid $5 for it at the supermarket. I want the sonic screwdriver wiimote! I adore the Lego games, and so does my youngest son. He was given Lego Dimensions for WiiU and it was all he played for months. Even now, if he plays it, his favourite character is the Doctor and his favourite vehicle the TARDIS.
List Of Games (in order of release):
Doctor Who: The First Adventure
Doctor Who And The Warlord
Doctor Who And The Mines Of Terror
Doctor Who: Dalek Attack
Doctor Who: Destiny Of The Doctors
Top Trumps: Doctor Who Edition
Doctor Who: The Adventure Games
Doctor Who: Return To Earth
Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth
Doctor Who: The Mazes Of Time
Doctor Who: Worlds In Time
Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock
Doctor Who: Legacy
Lego Dimensions: Doctor Who Expansion
Doctor Who: Infinity
Doctor Who: The Runaway
Doctor Who: The Edge Of Time
I used to play the adventure games all the time as a kid. Wish they did do that second season.
I loved Lego Dimensions. It was so much fun. Even when you had finished all the Doctor Who levels.
I’m so glad that maze theory announced they’re making more doctor who games
Wow! Great research Dude! Had NO idea any of this existed!
Would be cool if The Doctor used that sonic Wii remote in the Power of Three.
Brilliant video, Josh. As well as a big DW fan I am a BBC B fan, having owned one since a boy (that dates me!) so this video is of double interest to me. Fascinating to see how 'Who has been adapted for the video game market over the years but never yet quite found it's niece.
The excellent Larry Bundy Jr. did a really good video covering 'Doctor Who' games a few years ago now, but it was Part 1 of a series, and he never completed it. He did mention, though, that the "first" Doctor Who game was a (totally unlicensed) type-it-in-yourself game from an old computer magazine in the early 1980s (yes, people used to sit and type in their own games in those days!)
I did inherit 'The First Adventure' later in the BBC's life second hand; played it once. Rubbish. A tacky collection of game clones with the 'Doctor Who' licence whacked on top and a (nonsensical) story trying to thread the games together. Looked horrible and dated even when released and boring to play, I think sales dipping due to the fifth Doctor being on the cover was maybe a convenient excuse when in reality it was just a pretty naff release. (It might have actually fared better totally away from the DW license welded on, instead just being a collection of mini-games).
I was a huge text adventure fan so warmed to 'The Warlord' a lot more. (BTW they are actually one game technically, as the second half picks up from the end of the first, and you can't complete the second half without things learned from the first half).
'The Mines of Terror' sticks in my mind as it was a $%*! to get running - it required an extra chip that came with the game to be inserted in order for it to run (production of these chips was one of the reason Micro Power ended up going bust), but the chip was very fussy and could cause problems with - or be cancelled out by - pre-existing chips in the computer. I'd loved 'Castle Quest', of which 'Mines' originally began life as a sequel too, but 'Mines' was just too complicated for it's own good for me to ever get very far or have much interest in. (BTW, as well as the obvious Dalek clones, Splinx the robotic cat is also an obvious stand-in for K-9, who they also couldn't afford the licensing rights to!)
A side-note in case you ever choose to cover the "unofficial" DW games, another BBC/Electron game, 'Escape from Moonbase Alpha' (1983) features the Doctor (in Tom Baker guise), as well as the TARDIS, and Dalek-clones. Not license played for (in the days before things were so tight), it also includes unlicensed appearances from The Incredible Hulk, and a clone of Evil Edna from children's TV series 'Willo the Wisp'!
I have a nagging feeling that there's one game missing from the list in the video, a quiz based game, but I just can't recall it... maybe I'm just getting confused with 'Destiny of the Doctors'.
Either way, love this video and your branching out into different DW media. It's strange how the franchise has never fully found it's footing in the computer games market (then again, 'Star Trek' has completely either). As a massive fan of the point-and-click adventure/puzzle-solving genre, I've always felt that DW would have been perfectly suited to that genre - and is arguably one of the only genre's that 'Star Trek' has fared well on the games market, too.
Doctor Who would make an amazing open world RPG. With the incredible processing power of the new gen consoles the game could be massive. Traveling the universe in the T.A.R.D.I.S. with a companion, exploring whenever and wherever you like, encountering all of the iconic villains...damn that would be so friggin' stellar!
🤞Fingers crossed🤞 hoping this dream will become reality sometime in the near future. If I ever win the lottery I'm definitely going to fund the creation of a mind blowing Doctor Who game.
Imagine starting as the first doctor from an unearthly child all the way to the current era
Favourite Doctor Who game? Odd pick but Fallout Who Vegas
It's more of an expansion than a mod and it may be a fan game but the TARDIS sim elements are really good and the quests are fun
8:22 I remember when this game was out. I've always wanted to play this it looked so fun
I think they need to make a free roam doctor who game where you can fly the Tardis and to to different planet (like no man sky) and when you get out the Tardis theres a problem you as the doctor needs to fix and you can choose your own company out of ever npc in the game
You also had Doctor Who: Battle of Time for iOS/Android by Bandai Namco and on a side note Torchwood: Web of Lies also for iOS/Android. I believe Top Trumps: Doctor Who was available for Java phones.
Honestly, I can only imagine the potential of an open-world Doctor Who game.
My favourite used to be the BBC Website ones. The Dalek one where you go round killing everyone. The Strategy game where you play as Cybermen in Doomsday. Attack of the Graske. And of course Mickey Smith and the small Robot that he controls and many, many, more. I remember the Adventure games and watching reviews by like MrTardis and remembering how incredible they were. Free in the UK but about 30 quid on Steam. Might buy that actually
Another great video from you. I really wish the game series 'The Eternity Clock' didn't get cancelled, I adored playing that game
Same!!
I need that Sonic Screwdriver Wiimote
The Doctor Who mod for Doom 2 is very well made if anyone is interested or has Doom 2.
I remember playing a DeathMatch in the original Quake [or maybe Quake II] - on PowerMac G4s at the time - that included Daleks in it.
My son loves the LEGO Dimensions mod. We even have the TARDIS console LEGO set! I'm old enough to still have the Doctor Who board game, the Game of Time & Space, with Tom Baker on the box. Anyone else own that one?
Lots of happy memories of some of these!
It's not a mod on Lego Dimensions, it's a part of the actual game...
How about the Doctor Who pinball game? It's not a video Game, per-se, (Although there are limited video segments where you have to shoot Daleks, or run away from them, shown on the LCD screen on the backboard ) but it is a famous Doctor Who arcade game. A good friend of mine used to own one. It was great fun to play!
AubreySciFi Love that game - and you can play it on your tablet/computer with one of those pinball app things (can’t remember which one, but they *also* have a newer DW pinball game with 12 and Missy, the name of which escapes me. Not sure if it really exists or if they just made it for the app.)
The old DW pinball game in particular might actually be the best DW game of any kind, for the simple reason that it’s just a really, really good pinball game.
Wow, thanks! Your work is great!
I have memories of quite a few of these - including Top Trumps on PS2! I always turned to The Mazes of Time during the school lunch hour, unfortunately you can’t even play it anymore as it can’t be downloaded from the Apple Store! There was a whole thing with the Adventure Games being considered a part of the series and given episodic designations (5.14 for example) that was discussed a lot at the time.
Actually some of my best memories are the Flash games on the Doctor Who website, they might even still be playable!
Ever since I first played Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on the X-BOX back in the early 2000s, I determined that a similar game would work wonders with a Doctor Who theme. Playing Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim has only served to firm and confirm my opinion that if BBC and Bethesda got together, we'd have a truly workable and wonderful open world, open travel video game that is loyal to many of the concepts of Doctor Who (1963-2017) and allow a player to choose whether they wanted to be an evil Time Lord/Lady or a friend to the Doctor or a good Time Lord/Lady, with different attributes and abilities for each.
Rip Legacy
it was my favorite and now I can never play it again :(
OK this might be super obscure but does anybody remember The Beginning or The Five Doctors games? They weren't flash games because I remember having them downloaded and I guess they were fan made. In The Beginning you played through the Tribe of Gum (or that's as far as I got) and in Five Doctors there were levels from Tomb of the Cybermen, Three Doctors and Genesis of the Daleks (from memory). You could sneak through Davros's lab and get your foot caught in the clam and in the Tomb level I remember a soundbite from Troughton (the "they must be fought" clip) playing before the Cybermen were released. I can't find anything online about these please help.
I'll never forget the coverage of Dalek Attack in DWM, with the full page adverts showing the amazing graphics and gameplay. Unfortunately it seems that it was just the Amiga that got that amazing version and since my family only owned an old Sinclair Spectrum we got a substandard black and white version.
Nice to see a detailed history of video games. It is a subject not often discussed and there have been many releases in this sphere. I recall the home computer boom of the early 80s and owned a BBC Micro and a ZX Spectrum. I once made a couple of games for the Spectrum based on The Visitation and Black Orchid, but never finished them. I recall drawing a plague village and a cricket pitch! The marketing of the original computer game seems very odd. I remember seeing information about it in the Radio Times 20th Anniversary Special in 1983. They must surely have been aware of Davison!s upcoming departure from the show as he announced it nearly 9 months before he actually left. I used to think the game was perhaps based on The Caves of Androzani as there is footage from a BBC Micro in that serial! There again, there is that moment in Logopolis where the Doctor shows Adric that the Tardis could become a pyramid, using graphics I believe developed on a BBC A computer. The BBC Micro was designated BBC B. Talking of Top Trumps, I had the 1978 traditional card version featuring Tom Baker - one of the first pieces of Who merchandise I ever bought. My brother has Lego Dimensions and we enjoy playing as the different Doctors. My niece always wants to be David Tennant, I prefer to be Pat Troughton or Tom Baker and my brother Peter Davison or Sylvester McCoy. Looking forward to your next video!
I still have my Wii copy of Doctor Who Top Trumps
My favourite is probably the Pin Ball game!
I miss Doctor Who: Legacy. So sad that Tiny Rebel wasn't able to finish it.
I loved Dalek Attack. I had it on the Amiga and sometimes would just boot it up for the intro. I've still got my copy of Eternity Clock kicking around too
I feel like the major difficulty the series often faces with video games is that with the many enemies the franchise has, they can't usually be combated in a consistent way- such as out right attacks which doesn't exactly "fit in" with Doctor Who's vibe at least if you want to be playing as The Doctor. Maybe a FPS/TPS game where you play as members of Torchwood or UNIT would work but then that could very easily fall into seeming like a generic shooter unless given to the right kind of studio.
Without typical combat mechanics platforming, collecting, and mini-games seem like the way to go, but with a small budget may usually end up feeling like "shovelware" or microtransaction mobile games. Lego Dimensions is able to get away with things a little more due to its cartoonyness. While there are many games that don't rely on or have little to know combat that are great its usually because they are able to make their own story around it and not have to sorry about making a particular existing franchise work with it.
I'd love to see something bigger from Doctor Who in gaming but its going to be a tough nut to crack.
My favourite doctor who game is time tennis.
Fantastic visuals once again 👌Awesome video ☺️
May I recommend that you look into Fallout Who Vegas. It's a mod for Fallout New Vegas that acts as both a Tardis Sim and it has a very fun and interesting story behind it.
Would be interested in seeing you cover the fan games especially ferroxy's amazing VR interior
Great content as always! I hope you'll eventually discuss the novels published during the wilderness years.
My favorite is the Accursed Toys fan game of Dr. Who back in the 80's on the Amiga.
I still say a Star Wars: Battlefront-esque or Battle Royale game where it's just all the major villain factions duking it out would make for a pretty good gameplay loop.
As a games designer this interests me.
The BBC has revived the series and it always has seemed it could be so much more... The scope to deliver narrative and use ludology is ... Well... That is maybe the problem. The IP is so daunting... The fanbase so huge and varied... How do you even start? How do you offset the deep narrative whilst still giving a player agency? This is where early games go wrong.
Telltale Games style games are probably some of the best examples of how something that is heavy in narrative can still have agency.
The other problem is do you play as the Doctor? Or let the player be a companion? I have often thought of a Metal Gear style Doctor Who game. Third person where running and stealth are needed. Where puzzles must be solved to advance.
For the older games... I never understood why they never tried a Beneath A Steel Sky style point and click adventure.
I will say there are currently things in development at a couple of Devs. With the actress that plays Yasmin (Mandip Gill) also now starring in another game by Wales Interactive called Five Dates. So there are things rumbling and who knows what the future may bring. But the gaming industry is something the BBC are now seeing as being another revenue stream given the growing unrest in the UK regarding licensing fees. For anyone unaware - we don't get a choice in the UK. You have to pay a TV license whether you want to or not. So the BBC have to keep in mind that they may lose a hell of a lot of money should they lose the license.
Always enjoy you videos.
Im very hopeful of the edge of time, being a playstation Vr user myself I cannot wait to buy it
I loved the Doctor Who level pack for Lego Dimensions, it was a lot of fun. The game in full was a lot of fun, I would love to see the developers of the Lego games do a full Doctor Who game, they fairly have a knack for making fun games with a lot of love and care for the respective settings and themes so they could be the ones to truly deliver an excellent Doctor Who game worthy of the name.
If they ever did that any way.
I really want a 1st/3rd person doctor who open world game, I'd die for that to be made
Destiny of the Doctors has to be my absolute favourite! It came along at just the right time and in many ways helped me to understand and figure out how to properly use my PC!!
Some of my favourite things. Doctor Who, Video games, Lego, SEGA!
Also one of the games with Doctor Who refrences in is Minecraft (the best ever game) with the now defunct Doctor Who skin pack 1 and 2.
The Adventure Games, Into the Vortex, I loved those games.
I never got around to the Eternity Clock, since it has rarely (maybe never) actually gone on sale. It's just sat at full price forever, despite the negative reviews. I remember the developers hyping this up before it came out, and in the end all they could come up with is a buggy 2D platformer, a genre which had been pretty much mastered two decades earlier. I'd love to see a game worthy of the Doctor Who IP come out some day. Something big and epic that just celebrates the show's long history. Doctor Who Legacy has pretty much come the closest to hitting that mark.
If I ever became super-duper-wealthy, I'd pay BBC licensing whatever and pay Rockstar Games or Bethesda to create a fully-realized, open-sandbox DOCTOR WHO game in the vein of Skyrim or Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption 2 (in terms of freedom and open-world interaction). You could even expand on the time/space continuum availability by having online features that the companies hold on their servers, creating an even more immense and seemingly infinite temporal universe to explore. You play The Doctor, of course. You could start with your favorite incarnation or play "Story Mode" and start with Hartnell's Doctor. Naturally as you play, if you get to the point of death, you regenerate into the next Doctor and go on playing. You could dress each incarnation in whatever fashion you desired (throw Tom Baker's scarf on Capaldi, Tennant could wear celery on his lapel, etc.) and maybe if you acquired enough "Scrolls of Rassilon" (LOL) old "K'anpo" (from Pertwee's era) would appear and help you regenerate into a create-a-Doctor mode, where you design your own incarnation of The Doctor. Or maybe you go to see the Sisterhood of Karn and they help you change as you desire? Fat or Thin? Young or old? Doctor or Warrior? Your choice. Of course, I'd pay billions to have ALL Doctor Who characters be voiced by their original actor where possible. DLC could be new timezones or adventures available. Maybe DLC would even be recreations of actual episodes you could interact in with your Doctor? The possibilities with modern tech is endless. Even with DW. Overall, that's my ultimate Doctor Who game fantasy.
Dude your idea sounds perfect. Another idea I'd add is a Time War game, ideally would be a multiplayer online shooter, where you would play as either a Time Lord soldier, Dalek, Sontaran, Cyberman etc. and essentially have go to war in space by using a spaceship with shooting ability or on a planet on foot with a weapon. That would be my first gaming void that needs to be filled, yours being the second. I'd add to your idea the option to be the Doctor's companion and choose what race you'd be (a human, fellow Time Lord or other). That'd just be sweet.
@@rockysandman5489 Nice!! Love the Companion idea! Freedom of choice like that is what would sell it.