Poll: College Assignment - Movie tie-ins

[Reire]

For school I've chosen to do an article on whether or not movie tie-ins are destined to fail at providing decent game play and actually be worth the money that gets spent on them.

I need to do some first hand research and where better to do it than here?

I know that there is no "right" answer as there will be exceptions for both sides but a general opinion would be brilliant and any other reasons you can think of would help to no end.

So, Escapists, are movie tie-ins destined to be quick, cheap and poorly made cash ins?

 

[Phlakes]

Spiderman 2 and Goldeneye were great, probably for all of those reasons. They had goo developers (hell, Goldeneye had Rareware), wren't rushed out to release before the movie, and weren't just cash-ins.

All the others are.

 

[Reire]

I've heard that Escape from Butcher Bay was a good one, never had the chance to play it though so anyone who has played it feedback would be great.

I remember playing Toy Story 2 and I always thought it was great, probably just because I was young though :/

 

[MikailCaboose]

It depends on the developer. Golden Eye was great, and I personally thought that The Incredibles game was pretty good (Well, the GC version, I didn't play other versions so I don't know about any changes there may or may not have been).

 

[Sronpop]

Depends on the game and developer. Its all well and good saying Spiderman 2, but look at spiderman 3, its was woeful. And spiderman 2 wasn't even THAT good, it was just the best spiderman game.

I think any developer could make a good tie in game given the time and freedom, etc Arkham Asylum. Most choose not to, or are forced not to due to licensing. Rushed games = shit games, tie ins = rushed games. Thats my logic anyway.

 

[loooooowwww]

Depends on the game and developer. Its all well and good saying Spiderman 2, but look at spiderman 3, its was woeful. And spiderman 2 wasn't even THAT good, it was just the best spiderman game.

I think any developer could make a good tie in game given the time and freedom, etc Arkham Asylum. Most choose not to, or are forced not to due to licensing. Rushed games = shit games, tie ins = rushed games. Thats my logic anyway.

Arkham asylum isnt a movie tie in game its based on the comics....