The lengthy opening text crawl was added after numerous test audience members said they were confused by the plot.
After execs read the green draft of the shooting script, the film got an additional $10 million. Uwe Boll poured the money into special effects.
Every piece of body armor worn by the various extra foot soldiers during major battle scenes is paintball body protection made by JT USA.
Upon release, the film quickly earned a reputation as one of the worst films ever made, and made history as both the lowest rated video game movie and Uwe Boll film on Rotten Tomatoes of all time, with an abysmal 1% rating.