Few TV series would fit the GTA style as well as Breaking Bad.
Breaking Bad and its sequel Better Call Saul, which already has an adaptation for Game Boy, are two of the most successful series in recent years thanks to the script and the originality of Vince Gilligan behind the cameras, but despite everything, it has not had never any official approach to the world of video games. Although Gilligan has recently confirmed that he has toyed with the idea of making a adaptation of Breaking Bad in the purest GTA styleas we all imagined, but it never came true.
During an interview in one of the last programs of the “Inside the Gilliverse” podcast, Vince Gilligan confirmed that several adaptations of Breaking Bad to the field of video games were proposed over the years and he opted for a GTA-style game set in the Breaking Bad universe. Something that finally did not happen, but still “makes sense” assures the director.
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“I’m not much of a gamer, but how can you not know about Grand Theft Auto?” Gilligan said. “I remember saying to the guys who originally said yes to Breaking Bad, ‘Who owns Grand Theft Auto? Can there be a Breaking Bad game?’ It still makes sense to me!” Gilligan comments hinting that he was thinking of that Rockstar itself made this Breaking Bad video game. “That never came to fruition. There have been quite a few attempts at video games, some of them made it to market. We tried to do a virtual reality experience with Sony PlayStation VR headsets. We made a mobile game that didn’t last long.”
Gilligan assures that the team wrote three or four Breaking Bad games, but is especially careful with the brand. If the project isn’t finally worth it, we’ll never see a case like the ET game for the Atari 2600, which was so bad that all the copies were buried in the middle of the desert. Until a few years ago, when Microsoft shot a documentary and dug them up.