Bar Goldeneye... has there been any?

Let's see... Dark Forces and Jedi Knight were both inspired by movies...

I'm guessing you mean direct conversions from a movie to a game, though, with the same storyline and everything.

I would argue that the Call of Duty games could count, seeing as parts of them were heavily inspired by WW2 films (and true events!).

Maybe some of the older Indiana Jones point and click adventures? Weren't some of those a direct retelling of what went on in the movies?

I've heard that some of the Chronicles of Riddick games were good, but none of them were directly based on either of the movies, but were new stories in the same universe. So if DF/JK doesn't count, neither do they.

Spider-Man 2, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Return of the King, Batman Begins, Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie.

I only glaced over at my stack of console games.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was fun. It kind of followed along with the movie.

Michael Jackson Moonwalker

Medal of Honor Allied Assault

Spider-Man 2 was pretty good.

Last Crusade was the only Indy point and click based on a movie



kind of but it strayed quite a bit and it's a damn good thing it did



there's also LEGO [insert movie series here]

i think we should limit this to directly based on movies not inspired by movies

Pretty much any star wars game. To name a few:

The phantom menace
Podracer
X-wing alliance
Jedi power battles
super star wars series
Etc.

so which movie is XWA based on?

RoTJ..at least the end is

again i think we should limit it to games DIRECTLY based on movies or else we can start tossing in just any game that has some connection with a movie

and The Phantom Menace and Jedi Power Battles? we are discussing GOOD games here

Phantom menace was good. JPB wasn't for everyone.

You could probably say Pod Racer was directly based on TPM. That was a really decent game.

Episode 1 Racer (the actual title) isn't based directly on TPM it's based on something that was shown in the movie

How were the recent Ghostbusters games? Maybe if the franchise has gone cold, it will result in different quality games than those that come out right on the tail of the movies to cash in.

Also: the Back to the Future game(s) coming out?

I bought a Back to the Future game once, but I drove too quickly on my way home and it traveled back in time to before I bought it.

STALKER kinda sorta,ish.

Goldeneye, Spider-man 2 and Pod Racer all spring to mind.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine was awesome in the demo. Then I got the full game and found out it was pretty much the same crap over and over. And not even particularly entertaining anymore after a while.

The Warriors for PS2/X-Box. As close as you'll get to a 3D Double Dragons.

I liked The Phantom Menace. It wasn't JK, to be sure, but it was fun. And Racer, if it counts.
The Two Towers and Return of the King were great, very Dynasty Warriors I felt.
The Room had a great unofficial game.
The Dragonball Budokai games cover the events of the animated movies, if that counts.
I heard nothing but good things about Tron 2.0, which I understand was based on a movie that didn't come out.
Likewise, I hear the GBA "Ballistic: Ecks Versus Sever" was excellent and somehow was released before a new script draft or something that turned the movie into ****.
Going back a bit, I had a lot of fun with Aladdin and Jurassic Park for the Genesis, A Bug's Life for the 64, and the Lost World light gun shooter.

And if we get into "It's like <movie>, but a game!" territory...
House of the Dead Overkill's a great Planet Terror game, but somehow even more disgusting.
DEFCON, since I loved WarGames as a kid,
I'm gonna put STALKER here, since despite the name it's not actually a licensed game of Stalker, and doesn't really have the same story.

-And of course, who can forget: I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game

I disagree. It was a movie tie in so it should count and it is excellent.





Agreed and agreed. Good game and possibly the best incarnation of the character yet seen outside of comics.



Again, agreed. Still need to finish this someday. I was having difficulty with the final Doc Ock fight, I believe.



Yes and the only game I've maxed out achievements on. It is a last generation/current gen launch title, though, so unless you are a fan or not overly critical of dated controls you might not like it now.

Finally, let's not forget E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. Probably the forerunner for the majority of all movie to game adaptations.

and also the forerunner of movie to game adaptations that are absolute ****

That's what I said.

Republic Commando

And don't forget Uwe Boll's adaptation of ET for the Atari 2600.

-<3 Snob

It has dated controls? I played it on GameCube and thought the controls were rock-solid, aside from the Kong sections where I couldn't always tell if it was me doing stuff or if the game was playing itself. I was going to buy it on PC but the demo installed some douchebag starfoce crap which I wasn't about to tolerate.

I reckon Spider-Man 2 would have to be the best adaption of movie to gameplay ever. Forget the ****ing visuals or voice acting or dialog - if you want that then watch the ****ing movie. The gameplay was awesome. The play time I had on that game (before my memory card died oh noes) was something like 25 hours on a game that has a basic story mode of 6 or 7 hours. As a whole, the game is not great. It's pretty good, but they nailed making you feel like Spider-Man, which is remarkable considering the Spider-Man games that came before it and have come since.

I'd like to say King Kong was the best at turning movie into gameplay but those lame as **** Kong sections... But it wins hands down for putting you in the movie. They got everything right and created an immersive world that felt real. Running from the V. Rex and hiding from Venatosaurs was legitimately nerve-wracking every time I played it.

So what we've established is there are hardly any games that follow the movie which are any good, but games set in the movie universe can be pretty successful.

Well it's obvious that I like the game as well and there is nothing wrong with the controls, per se. There are some typically frustrating 3rd person control issues that pop up with Kong, nothing too bad, but there is a "stiffness" that exists in the 1st person controls that were typical for last gen games. It's kind of hard to describe and not the type of thing you really notice when you play it until you go back and play it after being accustomed to newer games.

It won an award for having the most ridiculously long title and the 360 had issues running the game in standard definition, at least at launch, and gamers playing the 360 on standard def were advised to buy the Xbox version and play via backwards compatibility.

Also, really great visuals. It's nerve racking as Driscoll to have a giant V-Rex looming overhead and pretty awesome to combat them as Kong.

I'm a huge Kong fan. Particularly the new film. I have the game, the theatrical release, the extended release, and the extended release with extras. I also picked up the production diaries. The latter three items I picked up extremely cheap. I don't believe this film get's the love it deserves.



Actually, generally, most movie to game instances are poor. Star Wars is the most notable exception although, once rock solid, they are hit or miss anymore. The same is true with game to movie adaptations. And there is certainly a difference between "successful" and "good".