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Are there any good games based on movies?

  • 06-08-2012 5:44am
    #1
    AntwanWester
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    Lets face it, games that come out every year with a movie title behind them usually suck. But there must be exceptions. What do you think is the best movie based game released so far?


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  • #2
    mackg
    Registered Users Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Goldeneye

    /Thread


  • #3
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Evil Dead (especially Fistful of Boomstick)
    Lego Star Wars
    Die Hard Trilogy


  • #4
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    AntwanWester wrote: »
    Lets face it, games that come out every year with a movie title behind them usually suck. But there must be exceptions. What do you think is the best movie based game released so far?
    Bladerunner was awesome. never got all the endings myself,for shame.


  • #5
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,776 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Most of the old star wars games before the new trilogy were pretty great. Stuff like X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Dark Forces and the Super Star Wars games.
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  • #6
    Ape X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭Ape X


    Although not based on an actual movie, the original Alien vs Predator game was awesome. Chronicles of Riddick wasn't bad either, and I had a soft spot for Jurassic Park on the SNES back in the day.


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  • #7
    blatantrereg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭blatantrereg


    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

    I thought KotoR II was good.


  • #8
    Who Knew?
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭Who Knew?


    The new Batman games are good. Arkham City is brilliant.


  • #9
    SeantheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,909 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    blatantrereg wrote: »
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

    I thought KotoR II was good.

    What movie is STALKER based off ?


    Street Fighter : The Movie is an amazing game


  • #10
    blatantrereg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭blatantrereg


    SeantheMan wrote: »
    What movie is STALKER based off ?
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/


  • #11
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    SeantheMan wrote: »
    What movie is STALKER based off ?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/


    more "Inspired by" than based I'd say

    --edit

    http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/may/01/zone-chernobyl-tarkovsky-video-game/

    little writeup about the relationship between the games and the movie (and the book the movie was based on)


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  • #12
    DaveNoCheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,760 ✭✭✭DaveNoCheese


    Doom... Oh wait...


  • #13
    Ape X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 460 ✭✭Ape X


    Who Knew? wrote: »
    The new Batman games are good. Arkham City is brilliant.
    Brilliant indeed, but not based on any of the Batman movies past or present.


  • #14
    Kinski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭Kinski


    The Arkham games are not based on movies. But the 8-bit Batman game based on the Tim Burton film was good.

    I also remember The NES Star Wars game being great, but revisited the Super Star Wars trilogy a few years ago, and those games have not aged well. I really, really, really wish they would drop all these dumbed-down SW games and reboot the X-Wing/TIE Fighter franchise.

    STALKER shares little with the film it's purportedly based on bar the Russian setting and the name (in turn, the film itself is supposed to be based on the Russian SF novel Roadside Picnic, but has **** all in common with it.)

    Robocop 3D on the PC blew me away...in 1993. Probably rubbish in retrospect. There was also a first-person Terminator game, based on the first film, in the same period.

    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was a good early Lucasarts graphic adventure, but was topped by the excellent (to fans, unofficial Indy IV) Fate of Atlantis.

    Riddick was good, well the first one anyhow, I never got around to Dark Athena.


  • #15
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,080 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktHhf7XqMaQ


    The SNES version is equally beloved, but has a less persuasive soundtrack.

    Various others too: Chronicles of Riddick, King Kong, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Dogtooth...


  • #16
    Defiler Of The Coffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    Escape from New York...

    (Metal Gear Solid)


  • #17
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,694 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    SeantheMan wrote: »
    Street Fighter : The Movie is an amazing game

    No.
    :mad:


  • #18
    MitchKoobski
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭MitchKoobski


    Spiderman 2


  • #19
    Ridley
    Registered Users Posts: 3,162 ✭✭✭Ridley


    MitchKoobski wrote: »
    Spiderman 2

    No love for Kingdom Hearts? :eek:


  • #20
    SeantheMan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,909 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktHhf7XqMaQ


    The SNES version is equally beloved, but has a less persuasive soundtrack.

    Various others too: Chronicles of Riddick, King Kong, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Dogtooth...

    Great shout !
    I forgot about the Disney Movies etc

    I used to love Lion King/Toy Story games also.

    Oh, ...and I game I had, and was crazily difficult , but completed when I was a kid , and recently tried on an emulator and couldn't get past the first level , was BTTF3

    back-to-the-future-3-pc-game-screenshot.jpg


  • #21
    Josey Wales
    Registered Users Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭Josey Wales


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Dogtooth...

    Dogtooth?

    It can't be this movie right?


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  • #22
    Zero-Cool
    Registered Users Posts: 29,471 ✭✭✭✭Zero-Cool


    The Warriors

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_ro-aH45U



    Terminator 2: Judgement Day

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNX2PPzrdm4


  • #23
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I haven't played them myself yet, but I hear The Warriors and The Thing(technically a sequel) are both good games.

    Then the SNES Star Wars games, the first Force Unleashed, and personally I actually liked James Cameron's Avatar


  • #24
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,080 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Josey Wales wrote: »
    Dogtooth?

    It can't be this movie right?

    I just threw that one in to see if anyone would notice :P
    sheehy83 wrote: »

    Terminator 2: Judgement Day

    God, don't get me started on that ****ing game. One of the most infuriating in existence. The motorbike sections... the need to collect 'future objects' to complete a level... the escort missions... Makes me stress just thinking about it!


  • #25
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,776 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Terminator 2 was absolutely appalling, get out of here!

    The arcade gun game though was rather good.

    Also no mention of Robocop on the Spectrum? For shame!
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  • #26
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Batman Returns on the Snes

    You got to beat the shìt out of everyone in fun ways, loved slamming people up against the wall:
    139503.png


  • #27
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    I loved "True lies" on sega. I was a huge fan of movie and I loved game. I presume it was **** and that just a nostalgia talking. :D


  • #28
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    More recently wolverine certainly wasn't a great game but was well above par on the games made based on movies list.

    Lego indy and starwars could fall into the same catagory perhaps.


  • #29
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Spiderman 2, great game. I loved every minute of playing that and even just turned it on for a swing.


  • #30
    GTR63
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,469 ✭✭✭✭GTR63


    Is the telltale Back to the Future game any good, love the Monkey Island remakes I got on disc so is it worth my time picking this up?


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  • #31
    Mr. K
    Registered Users Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭Mr. K


    calex71 wrote: »
    More recently wolverine certainly wasn't a great game but was well above par on the games made based on movies list.

    I really enjoyed X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it was so much better than the movie. Some of the boss fights were too long (particularly
    Gambit
    ), but it was so much fun.


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