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Any good games based on movies?

by Anton Bursch · in General Discussion · 06/06/2005 (8:23 am) · 42 replies

Are there any good or even great games based on movies? I own Wolverine's Revenge as a guilty pleasure. I played the first Spiderman movie game and it was decent fun for a while. I liked Goldeneye and the new Sean Connery James Bond game looks interesting if only because it has Sean Connery in it. What other movie games were there worth mentioning?

EDIT: I loved Goldeneye when it came out. Especially playing 4 player with a screen projector on the living room wall with friends:bliss.

EDIT: The purpose of this post beyond finding out what people in this community think are good or bad games based on movies, is to simply start a friendly neutral thread that anyone should be able to post to without worry of being flamed. I wanted to do this because I want to help promote communication in the GG community and because I like to hear people's opinions. :)
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    Associate David Montgomery-Blake
    David MontgomeryBlake
    #1
    06/06/2005 (8:32 am)
    Chronicles of Riddick was my favorite.

    Torque 3D Owner Matt Huston
    Atomic Banzai Games
    #2
    06/06/2005 (8:39 am)
    The Thing game was decent (and for you idiots, thats not about the Fantastic Four)

    Torque Owner Adrian Tysoe
    #3
    06/06/2005 (8:41 am)
    CHronicles of Riddick was my favourite FPS last year, great technology and very innovative for a FPS

    Torque Owner Robert Buckley
    #4
    06/06/2005 (10:30 am)
    I agree with both. The Thing (good movie and game) and Chronicles of Riddick were very decent games. Other than that all games based on movies mostly suck. The lack of being able to think of one should be enough of a clue to tell you your answer.

    Torque 3D Owner Tom Perry
    #5
    06/06/2005 (10:59 am)
    Chronicles of Riddick got a lot of priase, spider man 2 had a good go, and the more recent star wars games (Battlefront and Republic Comando come to mind) but yes, most movie tie-ins are not very good. This is due to the time constraint. For example, i heard the develper of Cat Woman was given 8 months to make the game. Its not a long time (and the star wars games mentioned above weren't connected to a movie so didn't have the same constraints).

    Torque Owner Laralyn McWilliams
    #6
    06/06/2005 (11:09 am)
    The Lord of the Rings games from EA have been pretty consistently high quality.

    Torque Owner Jeremy Alessi
    #7
    06/06/2005 (11:11 am)
    Lego Star Wars ;) Oh and everyon'es right Chronicles of Riddick ... waaaaaay better than any of the movies which inspired it also.

    Torque Owner Jerane Alleyne
    Default Studio Name
    #8
    06/06/2005 (11:23 am)
    Batman for the NES...

    Torque Owner Joshua Dallman
    Default Studio Name
    #9
    06/06/2005 (12:43 pm)
    Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Apple ][

    Torque Owner Josh Moore
    #10
    06/06/2005 (1:00 pm)
    The first thought that came to my head when I read this topic was: Chronicles of Riddick :)

    Torque Owner Unsung Zero
    #11
    06/06/2005 (1:15 pm)
    HungryHungryHippos!

    Associate Tom Spilman
    Sickhead Games
    #12
    06/06/2005 (1:33 pm)
    Well Batman Begins mobile of course. =)

    Torque Owner Anton Bursch
    #13
    06/06/2005 (5:12 pm)
    Chronicles of Riddick was Awesome. The PC version was also the only console to PC game that I have played that was not only not a cheap port but a better version of the game.

    Torque Owner Dracola
    #14
    06/06/2005 (5:35 pm)
    Wait they have a hitchhikers guide to the galaxy game... and its good. Must play!

    edit:
    Quote: hungryhungry Hippos!

    I wish they had a movie of that.

    Torque Owner Adrian Tysoe
    #15
    06/06/2005 (5:55 pm)
    I loved enclave too. I have the Xbox version with the frustrating saves. Damned fine action RPG which reminded me a little of Severance:Blade of Darkness. Neither games are based on movies though ;)

    Torque Owner Anton Bursch
    #16
    06/06/2005 (6:50 pm)
    Blade of Darkness Baby, OH YEAH!! I still have that installed on my computer!! I love that game!!

    Torque Owner Joshua Dallman
    Default Studio Name
    #17
    06/06/2005 (8:53 pm)
    @Master Treb: you can play the game online here

    Torque Owner Euan Gamble
    #18
    06/06/2005 (8:57 pm)
    Yeah I heard Riddick was very good too. I even bought it! And I still havent played it yet.

    I dont know... Its too complicated to just "pick up and play" and I havent had the time to sit down and figure it out.

    But I dont understand why your criteria for a game would be "based on a movie"?

    Torque Owner Magnus Blikstad
    #19
    06/06/2005 (9:43 pm)
    Quote:Yeah I heard Riddick was very good too.
    Yeah... I've heard that too but I haven't gotten around to pick it up. Guess I should, some day.

    Starbreezes office is only a couple of blocks away from here by the way. =)

    Torque Owner Anton Bursch
    #20
    06/06/2005 (9:54 pm)
    Magnus - sell your soul to go work for them!! they are the coolest! But make them make Enclave 2.
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