Games based on movies have a bad reputation. Quite often, unscrupulous publishers release something incomprehensible, hoping to easily snatch a piece of someone else’s success. However, this does not mean that all developers do this. In this article, we will recall the best games based on films, TV series and cartoons.
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X-Men: The Beginning. Wolverine”
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is one of the rare examples of how you can turn a hideous movie into a great video game. To do this, the developers only needed to raise the age rating from 12+ to 17+. This is what helped breathe life into Wolverine, one of the most brutal comic book characters in history.
The game actually retells the plot of the movie X-Men: The Beginning. Wolverine “, along the way expanding it with additional details. Gameplay, it is a traditional third-person slasher. Wolverine fights hordes of enemies, using adamantium claws for their intended purpose and not very directly – the objects surrounding him. The result is always the same, spectacular and very bloody.
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“Crazy Max”
Mad Max is not based on any particular part of the Mad Max series, but it is closest to the latest movie, Road of Fury. In addition to the fact that the picture and the title were released with a gap of only a few months, their storylines partly overlap. For example, in the game, Max Rokatanski fights Chlem Ostrus, the son of the Immortal Joe from the film.
There are many complaints about the open world, combat system, and storyline that would normally not allow the game to be included in a list with the “best” title. However, battles on cars and their tuning can easily cross out all the disadvantages for fans of “Mad Max”. The game allows you to feel like a real warrior of the roads, blowing up and tearing apart the cars of enemies.
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“Star Wars”
Games created directly from specific parts of Star Wars, of course, do exist. However, they are lost against the background of more successful independent works on this franchise. Unfortunately, most of them were deleted from the official canon, but they did not become less interesting because of this.
Most of the battle scenes from Star Wars can be experienced in the multiplayer shooters of the Star Wars Battlefront series. For fans of the finer work of special forces, there is the Republic Commando, which tells the story of a squad of commando clones. For gamers with a general mentality, the Empire at War strategy will suit, in which you can destroy the Galactic Empire or crush the Rebel Alliance.
Jedi: Fallen Order, which brings elements of Souls-like and Metroidvania to a galaxy far, far away, will tell how the Jedi survived after the Great Extermination. Find out more about the Order of the New Republic with the Jedi Knight series, still considered the best simulator of limb severing with a lightsaber. And definitely worth mentioning is the Knights of the Old Republic dilogy – some of the best RPGs of all time.
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“Chronicles of Riddick”
Authors of films based on games or games based on films are constantly scattered in loud statements that they have carefully studied the original, carefully introduced innovations and are ready to delight both fans and newcomers. Usually this is either a blatant lie, or a very, very strong exaggeration. Fortunately, this is not the case with The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay.
The game tells about the events that took place before the “Black Hole”, in particular about how the main character gained the ability to see in the dark. And to make it easier to perceive the title as part of a film series, Vin Diesel (Riddick) and Cole Hauser (Jones) returned to their roles.
The entire plot of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is dedicated to Riddick’s escape from the prison “Butcher’s Cove”. However, this does not make the gameplay monotonous, on the contrary – it is constantly changing. There are peaceful RPG-style moments when you need to find the information you need, one-on-one fights, horror segments with monsters, stealth, and gunfights.
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Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, etc.
Continuing the horror theme, one cannot but recall Friday the 13th: The Game and Dead by Daylight. The first is dedicated to various incarnations of Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, and the second has become a video game haven for dozens of maniacs and monsters from various horror films, including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Saw, and Halloween.
Both games are asymmetric multiplayer games. That is, one person plays as a villain, and he is opposed by a team of victims. The task of the first is to kill everyone else, while the others, accordingly, must be saved. To do this, they need to perform several actions, such as turning on the generators to open the gate, or fixing the car in order to leave. Friday the 13th: The Game even has an option to kill Jason, but it’s only for the most well-coordinated teams.
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These were ten (or more) of the best games based on films, TV series and cartoons. Of course, not all good titles of this kind are included in the list. There is the legendary GoldenEye 007, The Warriors from Rockstar or The Thing. Tell us about your favorite igronization in the comments.
