Video games based off of movies never seem to work out. Even though just about everyone knows this rule, video games based on movies continue to be made. As much as I'm against bad games sometimes a movie is so great it needs to be immortalized as a game. Case in point, "Jurassic Park." Just yesterday we told you about Telltale's Jurassic Park game; it's going to be taking notes from Heavy Rain. "Jurassic Park" is one of my favorite movies, and now there's a chance a good game will be made based off of it? Sign me up! Are there any movies you think deserve a video game?
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vismortis
While I do agree that MOST games based on movies tend to be just plain bad with ET being the most famous. There are exceptions to the rule I can remember a game based on a movie that ended up being one of the top shooters (and most popular MP games) of all time. The game was praised for bringing FPS games to the console. The game was so well revived that it was remade over and over in one way or another and still remains popular 14 years after it was released.
Velocity2k
The main reason that most games based on movies are such dismal failures: it takes much longer to make a good game then it does a movie. Developers of movie games are, essentially, rushing a game into production to coincide with the release of the movie on which it is based. There are a couple of ways that movie games could avoid this fate: the first is that a game which has already been in development is retooled cosmetically into a movie game (such as the X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the first Spider-man movie game). The second way is to make the game after the movie, so that you have ample time to make a great game (i.e.; Goldeneye 007 (the best example) Ghostbusters the Video Game and From Russia With Love).
The Emperor's Champion
I'll take an Assassin's Creed movie happily. The cinematics for all 3 games are just stellar. I have a projector that I can use to put stuff like that on the wall.... Dude, it's amazing to see Ezio murdering fools on a big screen and with very realistic graphics.
I'm not sure if it would work as live action. Assassin's Creed:Lineage was cool, but I don't know that something like that could EVER hold a candle to a intro cinematic quality CG movie.
Adampro123
A Night at the roxbury. I want to dance and pick up chicks and can you say Best Soundtrack ever?
ShoGun22
Instead of making videogames about movies, I think they should make movies about videogames. I would like to see a dope God of War movie or a dope Assassin Creed movie.
FunkyMcGee
I like the idea of the Heavy Rain style game play. I remember playing the SNES version years ago. The first person movement through the buildings with the heart beat in the background to let you know how close the raptors were always creeped me out.
Blue_Vortex
Movie based games that are based on movies that have been out for awhile usually do pretty decent since the developers have more of a passion for the film and have more time on their hands to develop the game (instead of being rushed to get something done by the time the movie is released). Just look at ghost busters and back to future.
DPsx72
Yeah, that too. They probably suck because they're rushed to meet a movie release date. I don't watch movies so it doesn't help when the games are poor too. If anything I'm not even tempted to try them.
JDarkley
I think it would be a better idea to use movie-based games to expand the universe of the movie instead of simply expanding said movie into 8-10 hours of generally mediocre gameplay. Enter the Matrix was by no means a perfect game (or a good one) but it did have some good ideas in terms of gameplay and story. Taken on plot alone, it's actually a very nice companion piece to the movies. Had it been given more time to bake and it probably would have gone down as one of the better movie tie-in games. So the problem really isn't when the developers aren't trying, it's when the publishers are putting the deadline too soon. The same problem affects many non-tie-in games as well. Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay had no such deadline and as a result is regarded by some as a classic. Hell, it was better than the movie!
As for a game I'd like to see, I'd go with a Terminator game set during the war in the future. Other than Terminator Salvation the setting really hasn't been expanded upon much. Bring James Cameron in for some story input and then just not have it tie-in with a movie or anything so it has enough time to develop. Hell, how about the actually destroy Skynet once and for all and the series can finally have some closure? I'm a dreamer...
Tim_1138
Nikole, it's comments like that which prompt studios to make more movie games.
DPsx72
Games based off movies/books/shows will be like the 360. Never a good game to be found. I usually stay well away from any licenses too except in the very rare occasion like Arkham Asylum. It's like they focus too much on the story and ignore the gameplay but Batman did it the other way around.
Aliasvs.Editor
V for Vendetta is one of my favorite movies of all time and I would love the chance to play as V
NeoHumpty
Willard. I wanna be a rat eating people's faces.
Scorpion360
Terimors would make a kick ass game
kwisatz_haderach
1.Bladerunner 2.Braveheart 3. Boondock Saints 4. Nightwatch 5. Fallen
tntharalson
id have said tron, but look how that turned out
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