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For all thoughs who don't know (or have been living under a rock) The Highlander is about a Scotsman killed by a Barbarian but discovers he is immortal.

The story goes a few handred humans at a time discover they're imortal after their first unnatual/violent death (you can die of old age but disease hasn't been adressed yet), Immortals can only ever die once their head is removed and this result in what is called a "Quickening", the energy keeping the immortals alive is absorbed by nearby (or the opponent) Immortal with this they gain strength, faster reflexes and sharper sense (the sharper senses can adapt to the Immortals personal atributes, like seeing ghosts, precognition etc). Immortals can sense other Immortals through the mentioned quickening, depending on the age or power of the Immortal the intensity varies and feels like a very loud noise in your head numbing your body if they aren't strong enough and immortals are infertile

The one rule all Imortals must obey without question is this "No fighting or holding weapons on Holy Ground" (any), in the first film it was a mysterious superstition in the anime? Struck by lightening.

Most if not all Immortals die in battle or a fight of some kind and so all immortals have an urge to fight and be the very last immortal to win the Ultimate prize, hense the phrase...

"There Can Be Only One"

The Ultimate Prize is unknown, it could be the power of god, the entire knowledge of the world (it's that), grant back you mortality (that too), or allow you to transend to a higher plain of existence.

For those who know I didn't want to talk about the first movie because I didn't wat to Spoil anything but for anyone else, The guy that voiced Lex Luthor in the Cartoons is in it as well as Sean Connery playing a Egyptian Spaniard, If that doesn't get you to watch it, I can only be ashamed of you.

 

Movie

Anyway I bring this all up because I recently watched the anime reboot The Search for Vengeance about the main hero of the series Collin McCloud tracking down the Roman Marcus Octavius for destroying his clan and his wife. And it occured to me we can do soo much with a new movie reboot.

Like better choreography, better effects. we could see how immortality affects different people or discover who was an immortal through history, reinvent the Highlander story like the anime did actually display the potenially magnificant power of an Immortal. I just feel they've forgotten this series and the only good one since the first one was the anime and that's sad.

Bringling back this classic franchise and giving it an update seems right and the name recognition and movie environmet is ripe for it.

 

A Game

With the rules and condition I've written above it occured to me you could make a decent action game from it like the Legend of  Zelda or MG:Revengeace with Leveling up elements as well.

The game can play through several centuries aquiring new fighting skills or weapons you can store in one location so every century you can retain what you've collected.

The RPG elements can be allocated to strength, senses, reflexes and fighting technique, durability and intelligence. depending on what you imrove the most can change you ending, also if an immortal is at a higher level enough it can actively weaken you. Maintaining your weapon every century. Improving your senses means you can discover ghosts to help you out, find weapons, items people etc.

Death can play as a mechanic, every Death can improve one stat but another fails or decreases, I wouldn't know what though.

A story aspect is seeing characters you form a bond with age and get reincarnated as the game goes on and you can team up with other immortals if need be and fight with them over time till you have to fight them next, A friend can turn into an enemy and vice versa. All of the above can alter your ending.

 

So what do you guys think, do you want the game, a movie or both, what are your Ideas?

 

This is V saying "It's Better To Burn Out Then To Fade Away!"