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With top box office draws such as Harry Potter and Star Wars, its not long before developers are picking up the phone and asking for the rights to use the license to make a game.
The question is does converting films into games work??
And even if it does work will the public actually like the game or just buy it as it has the offical film license??
Well as we have seen film conversions seem to sell quite well as games like Harry Potter and James Bond: AUF have found out but even though the film conversions sell like hot cakes does a lot of effort go into these games or are they rushed done and put onto the shelf just to make money?
I think though that 90% of the time game developers really do put in a lot of effort in to make the game suceed and not just rely on selling them because they are licensed by a film. As we have seen games like the Star Wars racing games seem to have actually worked and are not half bad games, not forgetting the huge James Bond games: Golden eye and Agent Under Fire which you could see by just looking at them that the blood, sweat and tears of the development team went into the making.
But sometimes it seems its gone all pearshaped as other conversions like the Flinstones PS2 game looks like its been made for the Mega Drive and not forgetting the appaling PS1 game Tommorow Never Dies which let Bond fanatics down but Bond has made up for that.
So will the film licensed games of the future be the work of geniuses or rich kids who want to make money and don't care what the finished product looks like.
Lets hope they are made by the geniuses as there is a big line up of film licensed games winging their way to the PS2,
the one which everybody has been waiting for is The Terminator which is going to sell by the ship load even if it is not a good game as The Terminator films have been seen by everyone and if you have not seen them you must be locked in some deep, dark cellar as tht films have been around a whlie. And who can resist a game with a big film License like this? Exactly no-one can. The public just can't resist those big films turned into games.
The film licensed game im looking forward to though is John Carpenters THE THING as I have seen screen shots and this is going to be one hell of a game.
So good luck to the film licensed games as they have not done to bad so far but will greed take over and games be made in minutes just to get them on the shelves to sell quickly? Lets hope not.
Othe film licensed games to look forward to are: Mission Impossible 2, Dusk Till Dawn, Austin Powers, Jurassic Park and Men in Black, so what a choice we have!
The question is does converting films into games work??
And even if it does work will the public actually like the game or just buy it as it has the offical film license??
Well as we have seen film conversions seem to sell quite well as games like Harry Potter and James Bond: AUF have found out but even though the film conversions sell like hot cakes does a lot of effort go into these games or are they rushed done and put onto the shelf just to make money?
I think though that 90% of the time game developers really do put in a lot of effort in to make the game suceed and not just rely on selling them because they are licensed by a film. As we have seen games like the Star Wars racing games seem to have actually worked and are not half bad games, not forgetting the huge James Bond games: Golden eye and Agent Under Fire which you could see by just looking at them that the blood, sweat and tears of the development team went into the making.
But sometimes it seems its gone all pearshaped as other conversions like the Flinstones PS2 game looks like its been made for the Mega Drive and not forgetting the appaling PS1 game Tommorow Never Dies which let Bond fanatics down but Bond has made up for that.
So will the film licensed games of the future be the work of geniuses or rich kids who want to make money and don't care what the finished product looks like.
Lets hope they are made by the geniuses as there is a big line up of film licensed games winging their way to the PS2,
the one which everybody has been waiting for is The Terminator which is going to sell by the ship load even if it is not a good game as The Terminator films have been seen by everyone and if you have not seen them you must be locked in some deep, dark cellar as tht films have been around a whlie. And who can resist a game with a big film License like this? Exactly no-one can. The public just can't resist those big films turned into games.
The film licensed game im looking forward to though is John Carpenters THE THING as I have seen screen shots and this is going to be one hell of a game.
So good luck to the film licensed games as they have not done to bad so far but will greed take over and games be made in minutes just to get them on the shelves to sell quickly? Lets hope not.
Othe film licensed games to look forward to are: Mission Impossible 2, Dusk Till Dawn, Austin Powers, Jurassic Park and Men in Black, so what a choice we have!
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With top box office draws such as Harry Potter and Star Wars, its not long before developers are picking up the phone and asking for the rights to use the license to make a game.
The question is does converting films into games work??
And even if it does work will the public actually like the game or just buy it as it has the offical film license??
Well as we have seen film conversions seem to sell quite well as games like Harry Potter and James Bond: AUF have found out but even though the film conversions sell like hot cakes does a lot of effort go into these games or are they rushed done and put onto the shelf just to make money?
I think though that 90% of the time game developers really do put in a lot of effort in to make the game suceed and not just rely on selling them because they are licensed by a film. As we have seen games like the Star Wars racing games seem to have actually worked and are not half bad games, not forgetting the huge James Bond games: Golden eye and Agent Under Fire which you could see by just looking at them that the blood, sweat and tears of the development team went into the making.
But sometimes it seems its gone all pearshaped as other conversions like the Flinstones PS2 game looks like its been made for the Mega Drive and not forgetting the appaling PS1 game Tommorow Never Dies which let Bond fanatics down but Bond has made up for that.
So will the film licensed games of the future be the work of geniuses or rich kids who want to make money and don't care what the finished product looks like.
Lets hope they are made by the geniuses as there is a big line up of film licensed games winging their way to the PS2,
the one which everybody has been waiting for is The Terminator which is going to sell by the ship load even if it is not a good game as The Terminator films have been seen by everyone and if you have not seen them you must be locked in some deep, dark cellar as tht films have been around a whlie. And who can resist a game with a big film License like this? Exactly no-one can. The public just can't resist those big films turned into games.
The film licensed game im looking forward to though is John Carpenters THE THING as I have seen screen shots and this is going to be one hell of a game.
So good luck to the film licensed games as they have not done to bad so far but will greed take over and games be made in minutes just to get them on the shelves to sell quickly? Lets hope not.
Othe film licensed games to look forward to are: Mission Impossible 2, Dusk Till Dawn, Austin Powers, Jurassic Park and Men in Black, so what a choice we have!
The question is does converting films into games work??
And even if it does work will the public actually like the game or just buy it as it has the offical film license??
Well as we have seen film conversions seem to sell quite well as games like Harry Potter and James Bond: AUF have found out but even though the film conversions sell like hot cakes does a lot of effort go into these games or are they rushed done and put onto the shelf just to make money?
I think though that 90% of the time game developers really do put in a lot of effort in to make the game suceed and not just rely on selling them because they are licensed by a film. As we have seen games like the Star Wars racing games seem to have actually worked and are not half bad games, not forgetting the huge James Bond games: Golden eye and Agent Under Fire which you could see by just looking at them that the blood, sweat and tears of the development team went into the making.
But sometimes it seems its gone all pearshaped as other conversions like the Flinstones PS2 game looks like its been made for the Mega Drive and not forgetting the appaling PS1 game Tommorow Never Dies which let Bond fanatics down but Bond has made up for that.
So will the film licensed games of the future be the work of geniuses or rich kids who want to make money and don't care what the finished product looks like.
Lets hope they are made by the geniuses as there is a big line up of film licensed games winging their way to the PS2,
the one which everybody has been waiting for is The Terminator which is going to sell by the ship load even if it is not a good game as The Terminator films have been seen by everyone and if you have not seen them you must be locked in some deep, dark cellar as tht films have been around a whlie. And who can resist a game with a big film License like this? Exactly no-one can. The public just can't resist those big films turned into games.
The film licensed game im looking forward to though is John Carpenters THE THING as I have seen screen shots and this is going to be one hell of a game.
So good luck to the film licensed games as they have not done to bad so far but will greed take over and games be made in minutes just to get them on the shelves to sell quickly? Lets hope not.
Othe film licensed games to look forward to are: Mission Impossible 2, Dusk Till Dawn, Austin Powers, Jurassic Park and Men in Black, so what a choice we have!