Movies that should become games

[Pharoah]

mine is 300

[Ba'alzamon]

Erm, there is...

[Makrell]

mine is pokemon the first movie

[Legio]

There's a 300 game for PSP but it's pretty awful.

Sphere would make a sick adventure game.

[VOP2288]

Triumph of the Will

...

Erm...just kidding


Doomsday could've made an interesting post-apoc action adventure game, 28 Days later could've been a decent zombie survival horror title, The Spirit and Sin City could've been semi-noir, visually appealing action/adventure games.

I'm sure there's more but I'll have to think on it.

[Inhuman One]

Movies tend to make for poor games unless its something like star wars, which has its own established universe to explore.

[Comrade_Rory]

Movie games are usually awful.

Excluding Star Wars of course, the only movie-games i've ever thought were REALLY good were Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (which was pretty much only in name) and Spiderman 3... i mean Spiderman 3 was awesome! There was so much to do!

[Wulfburk]

Delta Force Black Hawk Down was awesome!

[Sir Winston Churchill]

There should be a law banning video games based on movies because 99.9% of them usually suck ass.

[Ba'alzamon]

I wonder what Halo would've been like if it was a movie first?

[Celsius]

Driving Miss Daisy would be pretty cool.

[_Suetonius_]

Well, I thought the LOTR games were pretty good too.

And I think you can make some kind of race game out of the Fast & Furious movies.

[Akar]

Movie to game doesn't work. You'd always be too restricted in it, you can't develop your own character enough or feel free to explore if you are restricted to the settings and the movements of the movie.

[Finlander]

The King's Speech.

Basically the player would need to hit correct buttons on right time and it would generate words. Cool, nay?

[Inhuman One]

Well star wars kind of became its own genre of games, there where times that multible where released in a year. Theres probably more star wars games than mario games.

Lord of the Rings does have the potential for that as well, although its a setting from books primarily and not movies. Visual appearance of the movies does help for familiarity though.
They simply have not been able to really strike gold yet with this setting however. Quite a few decent LOTR games but nothing spectacular.

[Legio]

Here's hoping War in the North will be spectacular.

Another good film-game would be, in theory, The Road.

[Augment]

Ferris Buellers Day Off, - Skip schooldays, becomes harder after so many day offs and thus you need to get more creative.
The Wild Geese , - should feature an open world featuring a ficticious third worldcountries and a switzerland/london-esque place where you plan your missions.
American Psycho , - you play a wallstreet banker and you are also a psychopath, you must satisfy your sick urges while trying to fit in with the wallstreet crowd.
Inglorious Basterds , - kill nazis for scalps and in the end kill Hitler.
Day of the Jackal , - based on the original movie, you are an assassin tasked by the OAS to kill president Charles deGaulle during the 60s.

[eXistenZ]

First LOTR:BFME game from EA was horrible.

[Makrell]

hoobo with a shotgun: the game

[the_mango55]

The problem with movie games is that the development timeline is so short (since they want the game to come out at the same time the movie does) and developers have to keep the plot open to cope with any last minute changes in script, so basically the story always sucks since it's written very quickly.


However if we're taking old movies and making games out of them they have a lot more time to develop, write, polish, etc. Goldeneye came out 2 years after the movie and was a fantastic game.


I'd like a 5th Element game and perhaps an Inception game.