Movies based on video games is at an all time high right now. This has even broadened into TV shows and anime likeThe WitcherandCastlevaniaon Netflix. There aren’t a lot of video games coming out based on movies any more though which used to be a staple of the industry.
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Some of the most celebrated games of all time came from movies such asGoldenEye 007and evenAladdin. Those are two great games from two great movies. This brings an interesting question to mind though. Has there ever been a game better than the movie of which it is based?
10Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
This was the firstLegogame made by Traveler’s Tales and it was an instant hit. It came out in 2005 to coincide with the release of the third and final prequel movie. Not many like those films, in general, so getting something better than the source material wasn’t a high bar to jump over.Lego Star Wars: The Video Gamemanaged to blow expectations out of the water on consoles like thePS2.
9Disney Infinity: The Lone Ranger
With everyDisneymovie there used to be an accompanying game to it. These movies were made for kids so it was only natural to make a game for what is perceived to be a childhood hobby by many.
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After that well dried up, Disney Infinity was the answer to try something different with how they approached tie-in games via playsets on consoles like thePS3. Playsets came with a whole campaign designed around a movie, likeThe Longer Ranger, which might not be a good movie but it is a fun, more kid-friendlyRed Dead Redemption.
8Ratchet And Clank
Many forget that the lastRatchet and Clankgame beforeRift Apartwas aPS4tie-in to the movie in 2016. There were even cutscenes from the film spliced into the game and they looked worse than the game itself. It used to be that any sort of CG movie added to a game, like the cutscenes inFinal Fantasy VII, would look better. That’s not the case here and just shows how far along video games have come in terms of technology.
7Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game
If one were to rank out everyScott Pilgrimmedium it would go the comic,this digital game, and then the movie. All three things are great, but as for game and movie comparison goes, the game is just slightly better. It was a real win for gamers when it finally came back to consoles in January 2021 after being delisted from digital stores like the PS3 in 2014. It’s a short but fun brawler experience best played with three other friends.
6Sweet Home
Sweet Homeis an obscure pick for those that don’t follow Japanese cinema. It’s a horror movie from 1989 which is good but also very cheesy in that perfect 80s way. In that same year, Capcom made an RPG puzzle game for theNES. This is the game that would later go on to inspire Capcom tomakeResident Evil. The game never released outside of Japan but there is an English fan patch for it.
5The Mummy Demastered
Remember when Universal announced their Dark Universe?The Mummyreboot with Tom Cruise was so poorly received that all plans for future films in the franchise were canceled. Fans can rejoice at the very least forThe Mummy Demasteredwhich came out on platforms suchas the PS4. It was a prequel to the movie starring a bunch of nameless soldiers infiltrating a tomb. It was made by WayForward and played outlike a Metroidvaniawherein if players died, another soldier would take their place.
4The Scorpion King: Sword of Osiris
Another great WayForward action platformer prior to this wasThe Scorpion King: Sword of Osiris. Funnily enough, this spinoff movie, which was also panned very hard, was also tied toThe Mummy. This was the 90s franchise with Brendan Fraser though. One can not explain the glory that is The Rock in pixel form. Abs never looked so good on theGBA.
3The Warriors
One of Rockstar’s mostoverlooked PS2 gameswasThe Warriors. It was a video game tie-in way past its due as the film came out in 1979 as opposed to 2005. It translated well into video game form because the lore of this film fit the medium so much. It was a world filled with whacky gangs with high stakes. Fight gangs, take over territories, repeat. It’s not a direct adaptation but the game is better because of that fact.
2TMNT
TMNTis based on the first theatrical film since the live-action ones from the 90s. It was a CG reboot in 2006 that wasn’t bad but it also wasn’t outstanding either.
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Most of the video game tie-ins were just as averagely received all except for the GBA version. It was worked on by staff members at Ubisoft who would later go on to make theScott Pilgrimgame. Both games have a lot in common from the brawling action to enemies dropping money.
1X-Men Origins: Wolverine
MostX-Menfans of the live-action films were there to see one hero and one hero only: Wolverine. It made sense to give him his own spinoff then, but unfortunately, that turned out to be a bomb. The most infamous thing about it was how disrespectful they were to Deadpool. Thegame on PS3the other hand was a great hack and slash game that tried to mirror other hits likeGod of War. It wasn’t as good as that but it was a blast.
