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Legacy Interactive has announced a brand new Nintendo DS, Wii and PC title currently in production based on the television show House.  The game will feature five cases for you to solve using the same actual medical procedures, and crazy diagnostician techniques from the show.  And oh yes, breaking into patients homes to find out more about them will be an included feature.

As a fan of House all of this is sounding fairly entertaining, even considering how horrid most television series cash-ins tend to be.  But Legacy Interactive has a good history of medical/detective based games in the past, and House falls into those categories, so the game is in good hands.  Although there is still one glaring disappointment that will still make me weary of playing the game.

Hugh Laurie is a brilliant actor.  In case you didn’t know, he’s British, and that’s a flawless American accent that he uses on House, and in so doing he’s created a unique style of speaking and emoting for everyone’s favorite ornery doctor.  But Hugh Laurie is also a big star, and landing someone like him for a videogame would add a massive amount to the low budget for a game like this, meaning his services won’t be provided, and Dr. House will have to be voiced by a sound-a-like voice actor.  And that makes me nervous.

I’ve played Star Wars games in the past with Obi-Wan Kenobi sound-a-likes, and the unique way Ewan McGregor spoke in the prequels seemed lost on them, resulting in laughably bad dialogue deliveries.  I really hope that doesn’t happen with House…as that would make the game almost unplayable to me, but I’ll still give it a fair shot.

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