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Sep 9, 2021 · We've collected the best movie tie-in games in this list, which includes titles based on The Matrix, James Bond, Spider-Man, and much more.
May 9, 2024 · At worst, a movie tie-in game would become creatively bankrupt and resort to making a one-off racing game. At their best, however, a game adaptation could go above and beyond to create something truly memorable. These are the ten best movie tie-in games ever made.
- Robocop 3 (1993, Amiga) Robocop 3 was a terrible, terrible film – and the cyborg cop’s previous outings in video games were clunky, generic platform games.
- The Terminator (1990, PC) A 3D sandbox game, set in an accurately-mapped virtual Los Angeles, in which you boost cars, rob shops and engage in gun battles with cops?
- Batman: The Movie (1989, Amiga/Atari ST) Until 1989, Batman’s most striking movie presence consisted of a man in grey tights and a black mask with chalked-on eyebrows.
- The Warriors (2005, PS2) Taking a break from the mighty Grand Theft Auto series, Rockstar Games put its creative talents to work on The Warriors – based on the 1979 cult action thriller.
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Bad Boys: Miami Takedown
- Ghostbusters
- Fight Club
- Charlie’s Angels
- Highlander
- Tunnel Rats: 1968
- Catwoman
- Dirty Harry
- Beverly Hills Cop
The lore behind Atari 2600 mega-flop E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is well known by now—programmer Howard Scott Warshaw had a mere five weeks to get the game done for a Christmas release, and it was so puzzling, ugly, and unintuitive that it crashed and burned. Atari had paid a rumored $25 million for the right to make the game in the first place, so...
The PlayStation 2 era was notorious for tremendous highs and catastrophic lows, especially near the end of the system’s lifespan. One of the absolute worst games the console ever saw was 2004’s Bad Boys: Miami Takedown, released in conjunction with the 2003 sequel. This game is a third-person shooter roughly following the movie’s plot, but neither ...
Most of the versions of this Activision tie-in to the hit 1984 movie are merely average, but the NES version (released in 1986) has a segment so terribly awful that it drags the whole product down. In Ghostbusters, you take your squad of paranormal investigators around New York City, earning money to buy better equipment before a face-off with Zuul...
Releasing a tie-in game five years after a movie is released is a rare thing, but Vivendi Universal’s Fight Club sure didn’t take the extra time to polish the gameplay. Dispensing with the twisty, corrosive musings on society and identity from the film, Fight Club the game is a dull and repetitive one-on-one fighter that plays like Tekken with all ...
This dire GameCube and PS2 beat-em-up came out three years after the hit movie, which is already a bad sign. Developed by French studio Neko Entertainment, the minds behind Crazy Frog Racer and Garfield Lasagna World Tour, it delivers an uninspired and pig-ugly morass of punches and kicks delivered by low-poly models with nightmarish face textures ...
One would think the decapitation-centric narrative of the Highlanderseries would lend itself well to video games, but unfortunately, the ZX Spectrum just wasn’t up to the task in 1986. This brutally primitive title lets you take Conor McLeod through a whopping three heavily pixelated swordfights, where the only sound is a Pong-like blip when your b...
German director Uwe Boll is widely known for producing incompetent movies based on video games. But what would a video game based on one of his movies be like? Surprise, it’s bad. Tunnel Rats: 1968 was a tie-in game for his 2008 Vietnam War drama, and while the movie isn’t one of Boll’s worst, the game is atrocious. A glitchy first-person shooter w...
2004’s Catwomanfilm is probably the most reviled DC adaptation ever, a muddled mess starring Halle Berry as the titular feline thief. The game was developed by Argonaut, who certainly should have known better—they helped make the legendary Star Fox—but by the 00s had fallen on hard times. This is a 3D action-adventure game obviously inspired by the...
The Nintendo Entertainment System had a flood of lousy movie games, but none were as aggressively bad as 1990’s Dirty Harry. Based on the 1971 thriller starring Clint Eastwood as SFPD detective Harry Callahan, the game takes…some liberties with the source material. At no point in the films does Harry, for example, traverse apartment buildings full ...
Eddie Murphy was at his peak as Axel Foley in the 1984 action-comedy movie, and there were contemporaneous video games released at the time for systems like the Commodore 64. And then there’s the nightmare that is the 2006 Beverly Hills Cop game, released only in Europe. Let’s start with the elephant in the room: For some reason, Axel Foley is whit...
- Game: Tron 2.0 (2003)
- Film: Tron (1982)
- Format: PC. Now an almost-forgotten curio, Tron 2.0 was a fascinating attempt to create a canonical gaming sequel to an original movie that, at the time, seemed to have no chance of getting a follow-up in cinemas.
- Format: PC. Before the impressively awful films of 2004 and 2007, there was a perfectly decent AVP franchise that ticked along very nicely, thank you very much.
Apr 1, 2024 · Goldeneye (2007) Goldeneye is the perfect single-word riposte to those who tell you video game tie-ins are trash. Armed with your Walther PPK and licence to kill, you don the sharp tux of James Bond as you stealth your way through Goldeneye ’s story, a whole platoon of Russian rebels and a former 00 agent turned rogue.
Dec 17, 2021 · Turning a film into a video game doesn't always work, but when it does, it absolutely rocks. Here are the 10 best movie tie-in games.
