It’s exhausting to say what’s extra of a bummer, of us. Was it the darkish days the place each single large blockbuster film received a shitty tie-in online game crunched out by some poor dev workforce in six months to launch alongside the movie? Or is it the current, the place new motion pictures hardly ever get tie-in video games in any respect exterior of the occasional throwaway cellular sport? Yes, in fact there are exceptions, however for each Goldeneye 007, Scott Pilgrim, or Spider-Man 2, there are a dozen E.T.s, Rambos, or Fight Clubs. Meanwhile, we’ve lastly received sort of factor going within the different path, with sufficient high quality film/TV variations of video games that an outright shitburger like Borderlands seems like a uncommon exception and never the rule.
I get it, video games take longer and extra effort to make, particularly the sort of quadruple-A factor most movie studios would like their cash-ins to appear to be. But right here’s the key sauce, children: Most of the very best movie-to-video-game variations aren’t even direct variations of a selected film, however are as a substitute parallel tales, spinoffs, off-brand prequels and sequels, and peculiar anthology tales current in the identical universe. Star Wars has been proving that principle proper for many years now, however even ambitious-yet-average one-offs like Mad Max and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora have the precise thought.
And that’s the candy spot we’d like to take a look at, particularly within the wake of the relatively glorious Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The video games that took a movie’s ball and ran with it. There’s fairly just a few of them, however right here’s 10 which are particularly price your time.
