Roughly 8 years ago I watched a film called the cube and loved it so much that I wanted to see it again but there were some slight problems:

My parents probably wouldn’t want me to watch it again considering I must have been 13 back then, and though the age rating on it is 15 it’s pretty gory!

I only got to watch it the first time because it was on TV!

The second problem that arose was that I didn’t know the name of it, now I can hear you say well you just said it didn’t you, well yes I did but the fact is that back then when I had watched it on a film channel I didn’t know the name as the movie was just starting and I missed the name of what it was called, but fortunately for me all was not lost because as the film was about a cube clearly that name had stuck with me because I loved the film so much so it wasn’t till I done some investigation on the net that I found out it was called the Cube, simple name great film!

There was now just one more problem the Cube film/movie wasn’t highly know to people because it was made by an independent film company so this made my life quite hard as had that time I lived in Spain and knew I had no chance of getting my self a copy!

But for the next 8 years or so because I had liked the film so much I was thinking of ways I could build it into a game map, now though I knew this would be near to impossible because I didn’t know any game where you could up the ceiling except one which you could do near enough, this being Half-Life.

Now of course I never fully designed the map because even though I had my ideas of what to use now I wouldn’t be able to get the specific textures from anywhere without making them myself so I guess you could say I gave up, I was quite disappointed.

Now 8 years later that dream of watching the Cube film/movie has come true thanks to the wonders of buying online at Amazon, at not a bad price at all I must say a it not just included Cube but also Cube 2 and Cube Zero in a special edition DVD pack.

So well now I’ve watched them all I’m ever so happy and am currently wondering if I should start that cube map, though to be honest I probably won’t but hey I can dream right! 🙂

Anyway I guess I better leave you all with some info about Cube as I didn’t even really tell you what it was about hehe, here you go:

Cube (1997) set the standard: a person wakes up in a cubical room with a door in the center of the ceiling, the floor and each wall. Beyond each portal is an identical room, one of many in a much larger cube. The person has no memory of how they arrived. Some rooms are rigged with lethal traps, some aren’t. Other people are quickly located in the structure, and the group attempts to puzzle out an escape while arguing who did this to them and why. The prisoners eventually realize that the rooms are moving around inside of the structure and that the numbers that mark each door are coordinates that can help them find their way out. Despite the film’s obvious limitations due to its simple concept, many viewers enjoyed the film’s stifling atmosphere, conspiratorial tone and stark imagery.

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002) is a radical departure from the original. The dusky, dingy rooms of the first movie are replaced with high-tech, brightly-lit chambers; the plausible technology of the traps—flamethrowers and extending spikes—are replaced with computer-generated imagery of shimmering translucent walls that disintegrate matter and floating spheres of razor-sharp angles. The group discovers that the cubes are moving, not with lumbering slowness, but instantaneously. They realize they are inside a functioning tesseract in which gravity shifts, space distorts and time splits off into many separate paths. While some hailed the sequel as inspired madness, more derided it as brilliantly conceived but poorly executed, citing in particular the questionable acting and the banal revelation at the end.

Cube Zero (2004) is a prequel to the first Cube. Despite the memory erasing, dream monitoring and three-course-meal pills, the film comes across as a deliberate attempt to forget the ultra-tech mistakes of Hypercube. (Barbarash openly admitted he was dissatisfied with the previous film, which he helped write the screenplay for.) Unlike the first two movies, which limited themselves to the prisoners’ points of view, this film follows two characters, Eric Wynn and Dodd, who are bureaucrat/technicians observing the prisoners. Wynn finds himself caring about the fate of a woman in the cube, Cassandra Rains, and decides to risk his job and his life to help her try to escape. Ultimately, however, many fans were disappointed by the scenes outside the cube, feeling it destroyed the claustrophobic mood that was the hallmark of the series.

Via: Wikipedia