A quick look at the Night Watch franchise: Four books, two movies and a game

In 1998 Sergei Lukyanenko created a dark fantasy mystery-thriller franchise that will grow to include four books, two movies and a computer game.

This Russian craze is known as World of Watches and began with the book Night Watch released in 1998 and translated into English in 2006. The movie Night Watch was released in 2004, two years earlier than English translation of the book. The move is quite incredible although it is a bit bizarre and only loosely based on the book.

The franchise will soon be expanded further with the fourth book titled Final Watch being released in English October 2, 2008, and a second movie tentatively titled Twilight Watch and released in 2009.

The PC game Night Watch, developed by Nival Interactive and released in the United States on June 29, 2006, follows both the books and the film. The game is a weird mixture of strategy and role-playing that plays out like…