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Quite a few popular games have been made into movies, and some popular movies have been made into games. With the release of Tomb Raider on the big screen, starring Angelina Jolie, I thought I'd go through the good points and the bad points, of the transformation of games to movies, and vice versa.
Lets start with games to movies. As I've said, the PlayStation, PC and Dreamcast game Tomb Raider, has been made into a big Hollywood movie, with Angelina Jolie starring as the heroine Lara Croft. The series was loved all over the world (although I, personally, didn't like it much, especially the way she moved. How many times did I walk into walls?! Arrgghh!!)
Due to it's popularity (I believe Lara's chest contributed largely), it was decided that it would make the perfect movie.
Although, I feel that a game with a better plot (Metal Gear Solid, Deus Ex) would have been a better choice, the action in the TR games might prove the choice to be a good one after all.
So, in a choice of HIT, MISS or MAYBE my verdict on this movie is...MAYBE!
My feelings are sort of the same for another game that is apparently being turned into a movie AND a TV Series. Perfect Dark, which was a huge hit for the N64 (mainly because of it's superb multiplayer mode,) is set to hit our screens quite soon, when Rare accepted an offer for the PD movie/TV licensing.
Once again, I don't agree with this choice. The plot in Perfect Dark is...basic. For a game, the plot's pretty good, but a movie?? A TV series?? Somehow, I just don't think so.
But guess what?? The star of PD is the luscious Joanna Dark (I suspect a beautiful-but-tough Hollywood superstar to take her role in the movie,) and just like in TR, I can expect to see the boys watching Joanna Dark on the big screen, and nothing else.
I suppose there will be some good action, and some 'nice' weapons, but I think this movie may be a...MISS!
There are a few others, Resident Evil was announced as being made into a movie quite a while ago, and although I haven't heard much on it, this movie could be rather good. It gets a MAYBE, just because I haven't heard much about this lately.
Lets move on hastily, shall we??
Quite a few movies have been turned into some sort of game, and I have to admit it, not many of them are any good.
Take Tomorrow Never Dies on PlayStation. A good enough Bond movie, but in many people's minds, an awful game. The graphics aren't special, gameplay is annoying, movement is annoying, it's not very long and there's no multiplayer.
But there is good news!! Everyone loves the Star Wars saga (Ant smiles hopefully,) and I take it everyone loved Episode 1!! (Everyone shuffles feet until finally someone shouts out, "No, you mindless idiot!"
Well, some people liked it, and I'm one of them. And I have to say, the video games that have come out of the series are rather good as well. The Phantom Menace, which is out on PC and PlayStation got a mixed reception. I loved it, PSM loved it. Others such as GameSpot, hated it.
Then there was Jedi Power Battles, out on PlayStation and Dreamcast. This game was a big hit due to it's great action, and it's superb gameplay features. (Ant begins to grumble) Of course, if the ledges weren't so damn far away from eachother, then I'd be able to get past the 4th level....anyway, this game was a success.
Episode 1: Racer was a simulation of the Pod Racing Event in Episode 1. Due to it's awesome popularity, it was released on N64, PC and PSX. The sequel is soon to be released on the one and only PlayStation 2.
Star Wars: StarFighter is a major hit on PS2, along with Battle For Naboo on N64.
The only poor game that has come from Episode 1 is Super Bimbad Racing, which leaves a lot to be desired.
So, the conversion from movie to game was a success there. But what else is there??
Aliens Vs Predator on PC, that's what. With awesome graphics, gameplay, sound, weapons and online multiplayer, this game was a massive hit. A definite success. The same goes for the Die Hard Trilogy, which is a hugely fun game on PSX.
So overall, it's not too bad. Games to movies are yet to prove themselves, but movies to games have proved to be quite popular, apart from the rare occasion.
I personally hope the Tomb Raider movie works out well, and also hope that more great movies get turned into great games.
Thanks for reading, An-"What about TV Programs?!" You all ask.
*Ant shudders* Just 2 words. X-Files.
Thanks for reading, Ant.
Lets start with games to movies. As I've said, the PlayStation, PC and Dreamcast game Tomb Raider, has been made into a big Hollywood movie, with Angelina Jolie starring as the heroine Lara Croft. The series was loved all over the world (although I, personally, didn't like it much, especially the way she moved. How many times did I walk into walls?! Arrgghh!!)
Due to it's popularity (I believe Lara's chest contributed largely), it was decided that it would make the perfect movie.
Although, I feel that a game with a better plot (Metal Gear Solid, Deus Ex) would have been a better choice, the action in the TR games might prove the choice to be a good one after all.
So, in a choice of HIT, MISS or MAYBE my verdict on this movie is...MAYBE!
My feelings are sort of the same for another game that is apparently being turned into a movie AND a TV Series. Perfect Dark, which was a huge hit for the N64 (mainly because of it's superb multiplayer mode,) is set to hit our screens quite soon, when Rare accepted an offer for the PD movie/TV licensing.
Once again, I don't agree with this choice. The plot in Perfect Dark is...basic. For a game, the plot's pretty good, but a movie?? A TV series?? Somehow, I just don't think so.
But guess what?? The star of PD is the luscious Joanna Dark (I suspect a beautiful-but-tough Hollywood superstar to take her role in the movie,) and just like in TR, I can expect to see the boys watching Joanna Dark on the big screen, and nothing else.
I suppose there will be some good action, and some 'nice' weapons, but I think this movie may be a...MISS!
There are a few others, Resident Evil was announced as being made into a movie quite a while ago, and although I haven't heard much on it, this movie could be rather good. It gets a MAYBE, just because I haven't heard much about this lately.
Lets move on hastily, shall we??
Quite a few movies have been turned into some sort of game, and I have to admit it, not many of them are any good.
Take Tomorrow Never Dies on PlayStation. A good enough Bond movie, but in many people's minds, an awful game. The graphics aren't special, gameplay is annoying, movement is annoying, it's not very long and there's no multiplayer.
But there is good news!! Everyone loves the Star Wars saga (Ant smiles hopefully,) and I take it everyone loved Episode 1!! (Everyone shuffles feet until finally someone shouts out, "No, you mindless idiot!"
Well, some people liked it, and I'm one of them. And I have to say, the video games that have come out of the series are rather good as well. The Phantom Menace, which is out on PC and PlayStation got a mixed reception. I loved it, PSM loved it. Others such as GameSpot, hated it.
Then there was Jedi Power Battles, out on PlayStation and Dreamcast. This game was a big hit due to it's great action, and it's superb gameplay features. (Ant begins to grumble) Of course, if the ledges weren't so damn far away from eachother, then I'd be able to get past the 4th level....anyway, this game was a success.
Episode 1: Racer was a simulation of the Pod Racing Event in Episode 1. Due to it's awesome popularity, it was released on N64, PC and PSX. The sequel is soon to be released on the one and only PlayStation 2.
Star Wars: StarFighter is a major hit on PS2, along with Battle For Naboo on N64.
The only poor game that has come from Episode 1 is Super Bimbad Racing, which leaves a lot to be desired.
So, the conversion from movie to game was a success there. But what else is there??
Aliens Vs Predator on PC, that's what. With awesome graphics, gameplay, sound, weapons and online multiplayer, this game was a massive hit. A definite success. The same goes for the Die Hard Trilogy, which is a hugely fun game on PSX.
So overall, it's not too bad. Games to movies are yet to prove themselves, but movies to games have proved to be quite popular, apart from the rare occasion.
I personally hope the Tomb Raider movie works out well, and also hope that more great movies get turned into great games.
Thanks for reading, An-"What about TV Programs?!" You all ask.
*Ant shudders* Just 2 words. X-Files.
Thanks for reading, Ant.
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cookie monster wrote:
> Im going to see it, it looks really good however i think im the only
> person on the planet that liked street fighter the movie.
You liked it? *proceeds to remove the name cookie monster from his memory*!!
No, I actually never saw it!
Mortal Kombat wasn't bad, not good though!
> Im going to see it, it looks really good however i think im the only
> person on the planet that liked street fighter the movie.
You liked it? *proceeds to remove the name cookie monster from his memory*!!
No, I actually never saw it!
Mortal Kombat wasn't bad, not good though!
Time_Warp wrote:
> LOL. I am sure your hair is just perfect!
JUST? JUST? Ill give you just, every hair is within 0.2 nanometers of its designated parameters!!!!!!!
I'll give you JUST!
> LOL. I am sure your hair is just perfect!
JUST? JUST? Ill give you just, every hair is within 0.2 nanometers of its designated parameters!!!!!!!
I'll give you JUST!
Im going to see it, it looks really good however i think im the only person on the planet that liked street fighter the movie.
I would much rather make my own judgement about the Tomb Raider film. I haven't been very impressed with films that have been based on games in the past. One of the most popular beat em ups, Streetfighter gets a film and turns out to be absolute pants.
But, judging by the trailer of Tomb Raider that I saw when I went to see Evolution, it does look good.
But, judging by the trailer of Tomb Raider that I saw when I went to see Evolution, it does look good.
He's often critical about my hair!!!
A friend. I was talking about pro critics, though they never get it right!
A friend. I was talking about pro critics, though they never get it right!
I might, I'm going to see what my friends/the critics say first :)
Meka_Dragon wrote:
> I know I responded to this in the Movies forum, but that was from
> the Games to films angle, now I'll give my thoughts on films to
> games.
The thing about films is that essentially they tell a
> story.Or a least they should. Games should not simply tell a story,
> but let you take it in many different directions, leading to all
> manor of possible conclusions. Games don't really do that yet, with
> the only possibilities being you complete the tasks and move on, or
> you don't and you die.
Very true, although some games (RPGs mostly) tell a decent story, but as you said, you can take it in many different directions.
As games aren't based around the story,
> the fact that they're based on a movie shouldn't make any difference
> to their quality whatsoever. But when linked to a movie, certain
> expectations are made. With the James Bond games, Goldeneye and
> TWINE, they stuckpretty well to the basic plot of the movie, and
> made the game fun, with the new 007 game coming to the PS2, there is
> no existing story to work to, so you have no expectations of what
> should be in the game.
Yeah, this is why I prefer MGS to Goldenye. Or, why I think MGS had more effort put into it. I mean, they had to think of an amazing plot like that!! Which was, in some people's minds, better than the Goldeneye plot!! Rare just used the plot from the movie, really.
Anyway, as I was saying it depends wholly
> on the developers whether the game is any good, and it seems to me
> that sometimes getting a movie licenced game out to coincide with
> the movie is more important than getting it out to actually be any
> good!
Yep, that is the biggest problem.
If you look at any of the better film-games they're the
> ones that were released much much later than the movies, so were not
> working to release at the time of the movie. Goldeneye was out years
> after the film, and it was a class game. Star Wars games have been
> of various qualities over the years, but none were launched to
> coincide with the movies.
Apart from Episode 1, which had a mixed reception. I loved it, though.
Some games are just bad, replacing all
> of the characters with ones from a movie doesn't make it any less
> bad, but it does make it sell more copies. I mean how did they turn
> A Nightmare on Elm Street into a NES platform game?
Yep, once again I agree. A mixed view then, really. Well, lets see how good Tomb Raider is...
> I know I responded to this in the Movies forum, but that was from
> the Games to films angle, now I'll give my thoughts on films to
> games.
The thing about films is that essentially they tell a
> story.Or a least they should. Games should not simply tell a story,
> but let you take it in many different directions, leading to all
> manor of possible conclusions. Games don't really do that yet, with
> the only possibilities being you complete the tasks and move on, or
> you don't and you die.
Very true, although some games (RPGs mostly) tell a decent story, but as you said, you can take it in many different directions.
As games aren't based around the story,
> the fact that they're based on a movie shouldn't make any difference
> to their quality whatsoever. But when linked to a movie, certain
> expectations are made. With the James Bond games, Goldeneye and
> TWINE, they stuckpretty well to the basic plot of the movie, and
> made the game fun, with the new 007 game coming to the PS2, there is
> no existing story to work to, so you have no expectations of what
> should be in the game.
Yeah, this is why I prefer MGS to Goldenye. Or, why I think MGS had more effort put into it. I mean, they had to think of an amazing plot like that!! Which was, in some people's minds, better than the Goldeneye plot!! Rare just used the plot from the movie, really.
Anyway, as I was saying it depends wholly
> on the developers whether the game is any good, and it seems to me
> that sometimes getting a movie licenced game out to coincide with
> the movie is more important than getting it out to actually be any
> good!
Yep, that is the biggest problem.
If you look at any of the better film-games they're the
> ones that were released much much later than the movies, so were not
> working to release at the time of the movie. Goldeneye was out years
> after the film, and it was a class game. Star Wars games have been
> of various qualities over the years, but none were launched to
> coincide with the movies.
Apart from Episode 1, which had a mixed reception. I loved it, though.
Some games are just bad, replacing all
> of the characters with ones from a movie doesn't make it any less
> bad, but it does make it sell more copies. I mean how did they turn
> A Nightmare on Elm Street into a NES platform game?
Yep, once again I agree. A mixed view then, really. Well, lets see how good Tomb Raider is...
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