Well, if you count games that never had a specific movie they were based on, but rather set in a similar universe to a movie, you could probably rattle off every video game in the world that didn't break totally new ground. Kingdom Hearts, Star Wars RPGs, some of the Star Wars shooters, tons of "Street Fighter" style fighting games with characters based on some Japanese anime (as long as they didn't suck; I rather liked Ranma 1/2 on the SNES), and so on.Anton P. Nym said:
Games spawned from films that don't suck!
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Spidey II and King Kong are the shining examples, because they broke the mould of licensed games.
Spiderman II had a good sandbox element, and in King Kong, Jack's sections were straight-up survival(maybe survival horror?).
Spiderman II had a good sandbox element, and in King Kong, Jack's sections were straight-up survival(maybe survival horror?).
I hated those 6 or 7 foot tall raptors, didn't you? You used to hide and they'd swarm, trapping you.
Escape from Butcher bay really was great, it was like splinter cell stealth and semi-halflify combat put together, and it was even normal mapped, which is great considering the game was from '04. 007 nightfire was really great as well, but then again it wasn't from a movie anyway. Spiderman 2 was great, and the spongebob movie game was almost ok, whoch shocked me. And of course there's Star Wars: Empire at War.
side note: People wonder why I hate green day, but when mr american idiot avatar here has four posts on one short thread with at least twenty grammar mistakes, I really cant help it.
side note: People wonder why I hate green day, but when mr american idiot avatar here has four posts on one short thread with at least twenty grammar mistakes, I really cant help it.
What's semi-half-life? Wouldn't that be quarter-life or something?steveo_justice said:
Yes, that was meant to be a joke.
the key word was games that DON'T suck.DGKT93 said:
I'm going with the matrix: PON. I thought it was surprisingly good.
Republic Commando was sweet. The thing with Star Wars is that they don't all just follow the movies exactly - there's a whole giant expanded universe to play with. Hence we have Knights of the Old Republic. And, technically, they fit into this topic, since it's "games SPAWNED from films". But if you want a Star Wars game that didn't suck, and still followed the movies? Check out Lego Star Wars. I loved that. Obviously, if you're a powergamer, you're going to be disappointed by the difficulty, but it's great for younger gamers, or people who just want to mess around for a bit.Anton P. Nym said:
Star Wars Battlefront II (I never played the first) was good as it allowed people to do the grunt work. Yes, you could be a Jedi but I still loved the atmosphere of watching hundreds of people sprinting right at you.
May as well join the other slew of people bringing it up, but my answer would be GoldenEye on the N64.
Ah, those caffeine and sugar filled nights as a teenager, combating friends in toss-and-detonate remote mine explosion-fests. Those were the days of hilarious FPS combat.
Ah, those caffeine and sugar filled nights as a teenager, combating friends in toss-and-detonate remote mine explosion-fests. Those were the days of hilarious FPS combat.
Night at the Roxbury. (Oh wait, that was a movie spawned from a Saturday Night Live skit. oh well. Might as well go whole hog.
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In my opinion Ghost in the Shell wasn't half bad.
In my opinion Ghost in the Shell wasn't half bad.
