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As you look at this title, the first game that will come into your head should be "Goldeneye", the movie that was turned into a game in the best possible way. Rareware took characters and missions from quite a few James Bond movies, and combined them with all Goldeneye objectives, rolled them together, added some nice graphics, good gameplay and a multiplayer on top. Great!
The James Bond license, after that, was then taken away by EA, and they continued to produce games for the 007 license, which included Tommorow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and the recent game for PS2, Agent Under Fire. Tomorrow Never Dies was terrible. That was all that could be said about it. It was one of the worst games that the PlayStation saw, and it put 007 fans off the series all together. Not very good for the 007 license then, but EA tried again, an produced The World Is Not Enough, and this time, placed it on the PlayStation and the N64, and this game, it had to be said, was slightly better than the first game. TWINE had a multiplayer, was good to look at, and the gameplay was a lot better than Tomorrow Never Dies' gameplay. It could at least last you for more than a week.
TWINE had given EA more hope, and the version that did the best would probably have to be the N64 version. It had a 4 player multiplayer, and fans were eagerly awaiting a first person shooter, after the amazing Perfect Dark. The PlayStation version was only a 2 player, but it did surprisingly well with sales, and eventually it led to the next Bond game being produced. TWINE had gotten EA back on track, and had given them ideas on how to improve for their next big game, which would move up a place onto the PS2, as EA Games' first game for the PS2. EA Sports had put quite a few games on the PS2 and now it was EA Games's turn.
James Bond : Agent Under Fire turned out to be a nice game. A good game. No, not quite a great game, but it was not bad either. It had action, speed, good looks and women. What more could James Bond fans wish for? Not much would be the answer to that. Agent Under Fire was probably EA's best game on the PS2 to date, except maybe both the SSX games, especially Tricky. EA Games also produced this game for the X-Box, and it'll be out for the GC as well, soon after the Cube's launch. EA still have the 007 license, and will continue to produce games for all the next gen consoles, simply because that's what EA do. :-)
James Bond is probably the best known game that has come from a film (or 12) but there are other games too. Driven was a fairly average racing game that came out on almost all consoles that are around (PS2, X-Box, GC, GBA, GBC and DC) and it got a mixed reception. Some people, mainly fans of the movie or of racing games liked it, but most others didn't. This game, in my opinion wasn't that good really, and I found it didn't last, and wasn't much fun overall. Not a good example to show you but it had to be said.
Such films as Tarzan, or Batman, or possibly the Spiderman series on TV are in the Films -----> Games category, and most of them are also fairly average. Some are ok, but they are really too young for any of us. Not exactly 'failed' attempts at cloning a game to a console from TV, but more of just a game that we wouldn't all play, simply because we don't watch Tarzan or Spiderman. Silly really!
Here's the exact opposite of what I've been talking about. Final Fantasy is one of them. There's a clue.... no. Ok, games to films. Final Fantasy has been selling copies for ages on the Playstation console, and is soon going back to Nintendo, but, as it was such a good selling and liked game, it got itself a film, based on one of the first FF games. Was the movie liked? Sure it was, and many people called for a sequel already. So.... this shows that films into games could be better than games into films. Another example of that is Pokemon, although, no matter how addictive the Pokémon games were, the films didn't seem to be too good.
Overall, the message here shows that films into games can be good, or can be bad. It all depends on how the company care about their gaming license in that area. It also shows that games into films can have the same outcome as the films into games. It all depends on whether the movie makers are keen for the film to do well or not.
Cheers, Afro.
The James Bond license, after that, was then taken away by EA, and they continued to produce games for the 007 license, which included Tommorow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and the recent game for PS2, Agent Under Fire. Tomorrow Never Dies was terrible. That was all that could be said about it. It was one of the worst games that the PlayStation saw, and it put 007 fans off the series all together. Not very good for the 007 license then, but EA tried again, an produced The World Is Not Enough, and this time, placed it on the PlayStation and the N64, and this game, it had to be said, was slightly better than the first game. TWINE had a multiplayer, was good to look at, and the gameplay was a lot better than Tomorrow Never Dies' gameplay. It could at least last you for more than a week.
TWINE had given EA more hope, and the version that did the best would probably have to be the N64 version. It had a 4 player multiplayer, and fans were eagerly awaiting a first person shooter, after the amazing Perfect Dark. The PlayStation version was only a 2 player, but it did surprisingly well with sales, and eventually it led to the next Bond game being produced. TWINE had gotten EA back on track, and had given them ideas on how to improve for their next big game, which would move up a place onto the PS2, as EA Games' first game for the PS2. EA Sports had put quite a few games on the PS2 and now it was EA Games's turn.
James Bond : Agent Under Fire turned out to be a nice game. A good game. No, not quite a great game, but it was not bad either. It had action, speed, good looks and women. What more could James Bond fans wish for? Not much would be the answer to that. Agent Under Fire was probably EA's best game on the PS2 to date, except maybe both the SSX games, especially Tricky. EA Games also produced this game for the X-Box, and it'll be out for the GC as well, soon after the Cube's launch. EA still have the 007 license, and will continue to produce games for all the next gen consoles, simply because that's what EA do. :-)
James Bond is probably the best known game that has come from a film (or 12) but there are other games too. Driven was a fairly average racing game that came out on almost all consoles that are around (PS2, X-Box, GC, GBA, GBC and DC) and it got a mixed reception. Some people, mainly fans of the movie or of racing games liked it, but most others didn't. This game, in my opinion wasn't that good really, and I found it didn't last, and wasn't much fun overall. Not a good example to show you but it had to be said.
Such films as Tarzan, or Batman, or possibly the Spiderman series on TV are in the Films -----> Games category, and most of them are also fairly average. Some are ok, but they are really too young for any of us. Not exactly 'failed' attempts at cloning a game to a console from TV, but more of just a game that we wouldn't all play, simply because we don't watch Tarzan or Spiderman. Silly really!
Here's the exact opposite of what I've been talking about. Final Fantasy is one of them. There's a clue.... no. Ok, games to films. Final Fantasy has been selling copies for ages on the Playstation console, and is soon going back to Nintendo, but, as it was such a good selling and liked game, it got itself a film, based on one of the first FF games. Was the movie liked? Sure it was, and many people called for a sequel already. So.... this shows that films into games could be better than games into films. Another example of that is Pokemon, although, no matter how addictive the Pokémon games were, the films didn't seem to be too good.
Overall, the message here shows that films into games can be good, or can be bad. It all depends on how the company care about their gaming license in that area. It also shows that games into films can have the same outcome as the films into games. It all depends on whether the movie makers are keen for the film to do well or not.
Cheers, Afro.
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allardini wrote:
> AfroJoe wrote:
I
> wonder if he'd be like The Rock was in the Mummy
> Returns.
Egyptian?
---
Nah, it was just the worst case of computer graphics that I'd ever seen.
> AfroJoe wrote:
I
> wonder if he'd be like The Rock was in the Mummy
> Returns.
Egyptian?
---
Nah, it was just the worst case of computer graphics that I'd ever seen.
AfroJoe wrote:
I
> wonder if he'd be like The Rock was in the Mummy Returns.
Egyptian?
I
> wonder if he'd be like The Rock was in the Mummy Returns.
Egyptian?
G®åpô²ºº² wrote:
> AfroJoe wrote:
> I thought that Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within was a
> good enough 'port' from
> a game. It was full of action, had some good
> acting, and it was based on a game
> in one of the best series' of games
> ever.
How did you fin that?
i personally thought it was pretty lame. It
> had a wafer thin plot, looked like they couldnt be bothered to render the
> monsters, and there were no final fantasy esque features in it. no battles, no
> finding things, no anything.
---
Well, it was a decent enough port from a game anyway.
:-)
> AfroJoe wrote:
> I thought that Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within was a
> good enough 'port' from
> a game. It was full of action, had some good
> acting, and it was based on a game
> in one of the best series' of games
> ever.
How did you fin that?
i personally thought it was pretty lame. It
> had a wafer thin plot, looked like they couldnt be bothered to render the
> monsters, and there were no final fantasy esque features in it. no battles, no
> finding things, no anything.
---
Well, it was a decent enough port from a game anyway.
:-)
AfroJoe wrote:
> I thought that Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within was a good enough 'port' from
> a game. It was full of action, had some good acting, and it was based on a game
> in one of the best series' of games ever.
How did you fin that?
i personally thought it was pretty lame. It had a wafer thin plot, looked like they couldnt be bothered to render the monsters, and there were no final fantasy esque features in it. no battles, no finding things, no anything.
> I thought that Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within was a good enough 'port' from
> a game. It was full of action, had some good acting, and it was based on a game
> in one of the best series' of games ever.
How did you fin that?
i personally thought it was pretty lame. It had a wafer thin plot, looked like they couldnt be bothered to render the monsters, and there were no final fantasy esque features in it. no battles, no finding things, no anything.
I don't really like films to games, there always made bad. Goldeneye was the best but the rest are just perfectic, there just no good and hey afro who says i don't like spiderman
I thought that Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within was a good enough 'port' from a game. It was full of action, had some good acting, and it was based on a game in one of the best series' of games ever.
How did you fin that?
How did you fin that?
Great post AJ.
Some films into games have failed terribly, whereas some are great successes, as you said. Goldeneye always was and always will be my favourite shoot 'em up of all time. Because of the films great plot, the game works very well and there's so much to do.
Games to films, sadly, don't always work. Because of their linear plots the films just don't work as well as they should. Maybe if films were made like AUF they would be better. Using characters and areas from the game but make a brand new plot. This would probably work much better than using the original plots from the games.
Anyway, great post AJ, good luck on winning GAD for it.
Some films into games have failed terribly, whereas some are great successes, as you said. Goldeneye always was and always will be my favourite shoot 'em up of all time. Because of the films great plot, the game works very well and there's so much to do.
Games to films, sadly, don't always work. Because of their linear plots the films just don't work as well as they should. Maybe if films were made like AUF they would be better. Using characters and areas from the game but make a brand new plot. This would probably work much better than using the original plots from the games.
Anyway, great post AJ, good luck on winning GAD for it.
Ah well, Lylat Wars could be like a film. I'd love to see what Andross would look like in a film with real people in real planes and htings like that.
I wonder if he'd be like The Rock was in the Mummy Returns.
:D
I wonder if he'd be like The Rock was in the Mummy Returns.
:D
Films into games can be good fun and enjoyable to play but more than most of the time they turn out to be pretty lame.
Goldeneye turned out to be classic as did other Bond games. The problem is that turning a film into a game is hard to make it authentic, with plot and storyline needing to be kept to and also missions to partake in, they end up being too familiar in the end.
Games into films turn out to be pants, Final Fantasy, Street Fighter although saying that Mortal Kombat was a good film.
Speaking if which don't you think Lylat Wars was just like a film that you played in. If you see what I mean.
No?
Oh, ok.
:0)
Good post Afro
Goldeneye turned out to be classic as did other Bond games. The problem is that turning a film into a game is hard to make it authentic, with plot and storyline needing to be kept to and also missions to partake in, they end up being too familiar in the end.
Games into films turn out to be pants, Final Fantasy, Street Fighter although saying that Mortal Kombat was a good film.
Speaking if which don't you think Lylat Wars was just like a film that you played in. If you see what I mean.
No?
Oh, ok.
:0)
Good post Afro
I think that the films to games conversion only really works well when the developers don't change much, and keep it relatively similar to the film itself - especially if it's one of the biggest releases around!
Films with lots of action that also keeps you glued to your seat also seem to do well as games, like Goldeneye.
I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of The Matrix to see what it's like, and like with my game idea, i'd like to see a game of Fight Club! It's films that interest us that make it in the gaming world.
I'm also quite sure that Lord of the Rings will do well.
I think that EA 'lost it' with Tommorow Never Dies because they tried to change it too much, and make it too different to both the Bond films and the highly-succesfull Goldeneye.
TWINE did slightly better becasue they had realised their mistakes, and also becasue the film was highly-regarded.
Films with lots of action that also keeps you glued to your seat also seem to do well as games, like Goldeneye.
I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of The Matrix to see what it's like, and like with my game idea, i'd like to see a game of Fight Club! It's films that interest us that make it in the gaming world.
I'm also quite sure that Lord of the Rings will do well.
I think that EA 'lost it' with Tommorow Never Dies because they tried to change it too much, and make it too different to both the Bond films and the highly-succesfull Goldeneye.
TWINE did slightly better becasue they had realised their mistakes, and also becasue the film was highly-regarded.
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