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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Melsenschlap" data-source="post: 3632126" data-attributes="member: 53245">It definitely has the Death Sport aspect to it.  The biggest difference is that in the world of Running Man, the audience (mostly) roots for the players to loose - participants are considered the criminal scum of the country, and the dead hunters are memorialized like heroes. In Xcrawl its just the opposite. Emperor Ronald I created The Games in order to demonstrate the courage and glory of the Empire (at least on the surface . . . ). Xcrawl teams are treated like heroes, given magical treasure and huge rewards and are (again, mostly) treated like the heroes of the nation. Its interesting - I read the Running Man novella (along with The Long Walk which is, now that I think of it, another widely publicized death sport) when I was very young and I enjoyed it but the movie is closer to Xcrawl - Richard Dawson working the crowd, giving out prizes and discussing senseless death with great geniality . . .</blockquote>