A project regenerates Super Mario Bros game in first person perspective style of the genre First Person Shooter (FPS). This is done through the Unreal Engine. The culprit is Massud Sarahi and J. Lee. Within about eight weeks they make Super Mario Bros. FPS's on the Unreal Engine 3. they just did it to 'learn things about game development'.
They chose the Super Mario Bros. because the game was already finished, so no longer need to perform balancing and can immediately focus on technical aspects. The results of their work featured in a video on Vimeo. One of them displays the alias level 1-1 at the beginning of the game is legendary.
The video shows an alternate point of view, between 'normal' in first person, to show what kind of implementation is done.
Curious? Watch yourself on video http://vimeo.com/25165915