Poll: Best book based on a game?

[Dessembrae]

i have been reading some of the books based on different game universes, and i think that some of them are quit good. while far from some of the original books they still entertain me, some more than others and I was wondering with universe has the best books, and why.

I could not write each individual book as an option, so i wrote the universes so if you want to be more specific write it in you post. and only books based on videogames plz, so no warhammer or star wars/trek etc.

And as for me. I liked the ME book the best becasue it had quite good characters and a desent story, and gave me a feeling of "this might be possible!" while I was reading it.

EDIT: fixed the spelling and subject.

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[shatnershaman]

Yea 40K is more table top than game so Halo (*GASP!*)

 

[AlphaWolf13]

Hmmm, I think a Hellgate London book could be very interesting. I won't touch the game ever again (It's sooo bad >.<), but the whole story and setting of it could be really, really good. If they have a good author.

 

[tooktook]

If anybody knows of a good Starcraft based novel please send me a private message.
Would really like to read one but don't know if they are worth the time.

Same goes for Warcraft.

 

[Dessembrae]

Hmmm, I think a Hellgate London book could be very interesting. I won't touch the game ever again (It's sooo bad >.<), but the whole story and setting of it could be really, really good. If they have a good author.

acually the 3 book i coming out this august! and yes they ar cuite good acually ^^

 

[N-Sef]

a while back I read the book adaption of Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger. What was hilarious about this book was that EVERY line of dialogue from the game was transcribed and used in the novel, I felt a sense of deja vu when I read it.

Also I heard the Halo an Diablo books are quite fun.

 

[AlphaWolf13]

If anybody knows of a good Starcraft based novel please send me a private message.
Would really like to read one but don't know if they are worth the time.

Same goes for Warcraft.

Warcraft
I read the second book of the "War of the Ancients" trilogy.. At the time (3 years ago?) it seemed to be a very good book. Obviously try the first, and I won't promise that it was the best, I just remember that I actually liked the book and was planning on buying more. (which is rare for me)

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I must confess that I've never read any video game fiction, but if my experiences with the Dungeons & Dragons novels I read in my teens are anything to go by, then the quality is pretty low.

Essentially, if you are in the target age demographic they hold up quite well, but if you re-examine them as an adult you will be disappointed.

This thread didn't need a poll by the way.

 

[KamikazeSailor]

I'm betting Tom Clandy's Endwar novel will be pretty good, so I voted Other...

 

[Anarchemitis]

Tom Clancy wrote books before he sold out. Splinter Cell was pretty good in text.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Tom Clancy wrote books

WHAT?!?!?!?!

I think the Halo novels are the best videogame novels out at the moment but I'm sure a Half-life novel would be better.

 

[zari]

Hmmm, I think a Hellgate London book could be very interesting. I won't touch the game ever again (It's sooo bad >.<), but the whole story and setting of it could be really, really good. If they have a good author.

Urgh. I read the first Hellgate book and while I quite like the premise, I really had to struggle to make it to the end (much like the game).

I picked up a bunch of the Horus Heresy Warhammer 40k books a while back, and while the quality of writing was... varied, the overall story was quite good and made them worth reading (some of the later ones do drift off the core plot a bit though).

Being the Fallout fanboy that I am, I'd really like to see a book/series along those lines. I've read some pretty decent post-apocalyptic books, but it'd be good to get a lot of the (in some cases dark) humour that was in the games. Maybe I should write one in my spare time ;P

 

[Prozoquel]

There's no such thing as a good book based on a game. It just doesn't work.

 

[Silver]

There's no such thing as a good book based on a game. It just doesn't work.

You obviously haven't read the blizzard books. Wether it's based on Warcraft, Starcraft or Diablo the quality of writing in those books is great. The worlds are welldeveloped, and feel real, genuine (well, up until WoW came around) and the stories are great in themselves. You should try reading some of them.

 

[AngryMan]

Okay, the official best book based on a game ever, is EASILY "Empyrean Age" by Tony Gonzales.

you people seriously need to read it.

 

[Soothsayers]

Here was a Mass Effect book, which wasn't half bad. I was more of a prolouge to the event in the game.

 

[Erana]

If I used the remains of my Xbox and a few N64 cartridges as a base under my Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy, would that count?

 

[zebubble]

Hmm, I haven't read too many books based off of games, because I avoid stuff like that because most of it is crap. However, I did read the book Splinter Cell, and I thought it was actually pretty good.

 

[mathias53]

I really enjoyed the books based off the Myst game. They really explained the history of, well, everything that ever happened and why it happened in the game well.

The Halo books were OK.

And the Baulders Gate books were OK

 

[AlexHarman]

If the Splinter Cell books were based on the game rather than vice-versa, then those.