VANCOUVER--After years of taking video games like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege, Postal and Far Cry to the big screen, writer/director/producer Uwe Boll is now taking a property in the opposite direction, GameDaily BIZ can exclusively reveal. Boll filmed Tunnel Rats, an original Vietnam war movie set in 1967, earlier this year in South Africa. He's financing a new first-person shooter based on the film, which German developer Replay Studios is currently creating using its internal Replay Engine most recently seen at E3 in the new WWII game Sabotage at Gamecock's Hotel California suite. Tunnel Rats will ship for Xbox 360 and PC.

"Tunnel Rats is a first-person shooter set during the Vietnam War that tells the story of a young G.I. who escapes from a POW camp and journeys through a heavily fortified valley in the Cu Chi province," said Marc Moehring Managing Director and Co-Founder, Replay Studios. "It not only depicts his actual physical path through the merciless jungle and claustrophobic, trap-ridden tunnels, but also his emotional and psychological journey as the horrors he witnesses--and participates in--slowly deprive him of his ideals, morals and sanity."

The game will take place over 10 levels of jungles and tunnels based on the movie. Players will have over a dozen weapons to choose from as they make there way through the game's environments.

"The game mainly takes the setting, atmosphere and philosophy of the movie, and tells the parallel story of different characters in a similar situation," said Moehring. "Like the film, it is very dark, violent and dirty, and depicts war as the madness that it is. In the end, it's all about survival in a situation where everything you know and believe in goes to hell, and a fight for an impersonal goal becomes a very personal experience, one that changes you forever--if it doesn't kill you."

The movie, which was penned by Boll and Dan Clarke, stars Michael Pare, Nate Parker, Brandon Fobbs and Erik Eidem. Boll said all of the actors from the film have signed on to have their likenesses appear in the game. He said the game will incorporate Jessica de Rooij's score from the movie as well as additional music composed specifically for the game.

Moehring said this game will separate itself from other shooters with its graphic nature. Players will crawl through pitch-black tunnels, stab Vietcong while they are asleep, clean out caves with a flamethrower, and cut off and collect ears--all while being slowly driven insane. He said the player will also occasionally encounter situations that bridge the game and the film beyond mere atmosphere and setting.

"Uwe Boll and his crew are providing us with reference material as the movie production progresses and they're making sure the game complements the film, while still leaving us a lot of liberty with the material," said Moehring. "Apart from the obvious shooting, the player will also be able to sneak around enemies, disarm traps, engage in up-close melee fights in the tunnels, and experience shooting gallery-style gameplay in firing posts, among other things. The emphasis lies on depicting war as being very brutal, senseless and cruel, rather than it being a mere playground for heroic acts."

Boll said the plan is to release the game in tandem with the theatrical launch of the film early next year. When it comes time to release the film on DVD, Boll would like to bundle the game and the movie together. He's currently talking to different distributors about the game.

"If this game does well then we'll keep going with other game ideas," said Boll, who's currently wrapping principal photography on Far Cry. In addition to the original Tunnel Rats film, Boll also completed Seed, a horror movie he wrote starring Pare.