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"Lets make a mmovie!"

The computer gaming industry is now growing to a much larger audience and publicising is very important for the sales of software and hardware in the market. Of course as the business is growing the companies have to make changes and new features to attract the new gamer. So it is no surprise that films have started originated from the hit games we are playing on the current consoles.

Don’t know what I am talking about? Well all these games will be appearing on the big screen eventually.

- Tomb Raider (Starring Angelina Jolie)
- Final fantasy
- Soul Calibur
- Duke Nukem (starring The rock!)
- Shadowman (starring Ice Cube… good thing?)
- Resident evil! Starring… David Boreanz aka angel and it could be here by Halloween!)
-Metal gear solid! (Hopefully starring Russell Crowe)

Now all of these games were massive hits and have or are making sequels and I think what better way to give a game campaign a good try than a film of it to get non gaming fans into it. I haven’t seen much about any apart from Tomb Raider and Final fantasy. Now apparently Tomb Raider is unwatchable Trifle but it does look good to me. But The Final fantasy movie looks… mind numbingly awesome! It is done virtually and the animated characters look so real and cool that any gaming fan has to go and see it, as it is all action and some great effects. When you first see the trailer for it you can hardly believe it is FF!

Advantages!
Well there is no question that stunning trailers like the Final Fantasy one will attract almost anyone and they would probably buy the console that the game was on just because of seeing the film. So the film essentially has to be a hit for the game to succeed if companies want to drag in some new customers then they will have to make it good.

Disadvantages…
Well obviously a non-gamer will look into the game if they see a good film but what will happen if the film is a blooper. Well I think for the moment a lot of companies will steer clear from movie making and wait for one of their rivals to fail first. There is no argument that to someone who doesn’t know much about games that an underachieving film good slightly discourage them. I will go and see some gaming movies but I know at this early stage not to expect too much.

So I think that it is another new gaming upgrade or feature and soon it will be quite common. But the future of this could go wrong… How? Well films could eventually replace gaming and just have more terrible sequels.

The end is nigh...

T_W

Good post and another film this YEAR!

I hve high hopes for the resident evil film but if I remember correctly it is being filmed by the bloke who did the street fighter movie.

Oh dear:(

Time_Warp wrote:
> I think he was once in the form of writing.

Dunno... I was checking out a few reviews for it last week (hunting down cheap N64 titles) ... And they seemed to think that the Comic Book company owned by Acclaim has already created the Shadowman (American) comic books?

I dont even know if it was a 3-4 book special, or a continuing series?

I think he was once in the form of writing.

Wasnt Shadowman a comic book character before becomming a computer title?

I think they can and will be hits!

Spider II wrote:
> I think these filims will be rubbish. We all know these games are
> ace and everyone will expect so much. And after actullay contorlling
> the main character to not controlling them, not a lot of people will
> like that.

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I hadn't thought about it like that Spider. Although I now totally agree with it. I mean we are all used to being able to control what the fate of the character will be. Now this has been changed I don't know if it will be as good. They still sound good though.

I think these filims will be rubbish. We all know these games are ace and everyone will expect so much. And after actullay contorlling the main character to not controlling them, not a lot of people will like that.

Shadowman/MGS films.....am I in heaven. Only joking its just I never realise that these were coming out. Also I agree on the fact that if someone has never played the games (all of which are great) and they see a cack film they will automatically put the game down. Do you know what game would be good as a film.....CBFD....as an animated adult film. Obviously using graphics like shrek though and not just a normal cartoon.

I actually quite liked Mortal Kombat the Movie. It had everything that a mortal kombat movie needed and at least it was better than the dire Street Fighter one.

The sequel was complete tripe though. Shame really.