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Sep 9, 2021 · The best movie-tie in games are enjoyable romps through popular cinematic universes, while the worst games are ones we don't really talk about (or bury in landfills).
- 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...
- E.T. Nearly Killed The Video Gaming Industry. Of all movie tie-in games, none are as notorious as E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. Released shortly after the smash hit movie of the same name, the game was considered to have incomprehensible gameplay, not aided by incredibly basic graphics.
- Aliens: Colonial Marines Was A Colossal Disappointment. Aliens: Colonial Marines was released 27 years after the film it ties into, but nonetheless makes heavy use of its ties to the film Aliens, being set shortly after it as a fresh wave of marines arrive on the ship from the film, hoping to rescue any survivors.
- Catwoman Was Almost Bad Enough To See Policy Changes. Catwoman is a movie notorious among superhero fans and regular audiences alike for its sheer poor quality, often considered one of the worst superhero films ever made.
- Shrek: Swamp Kart Speedway Had Few Redeeming Features. The Shrek series is known for many poor tie-in games, but there are few as poorly-regarded as Shrek: Swamp Kart Speedway.
18+. A top 10 countdown featuring great gaming action. S10 E7 - Iconic Weapons + Worst Film & TV Tie-In Games. 30min.
- Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) It might not be the worst Alien game — Aliens: Colonial Marines saw a far harsher critical reception — but there isn't a worse game in the franchise in terms of direct movie tie-ins.
- Alvin And The Chipmunks (2007) The 2007 Alvin and the Chipmunks movie didn't receive a strong response from critics either ,but this rhythm-based video game tie-in was even more negatively received.
- Catwoman (2004) It would have been more surprising if the tie-in game for Catwoman had been good, but its failure to deliver a technically polished game meant it couldn't do justice to one of the strongest female DC characters either.
- Battleship (2012) Though the attempt to turn the board game into a blockbuster movie ended up being a massive box-office failure and one that most people would be happy to forget, Battleship also produced not one but two separate video game tie-ins of the same name.
May 13, 2019 · Basically, Hulk went off the deep end by trying to convince you that you’d buy a Hulk game to play as Bruce Banner. 9. Peter Jackson’s King Kong. Peter Jackson’s King Kong has a similar ...
Jun 19, 2019 · Alex LaFreniere. June 19, 2019. Updated: March 7, 2024 5:19 PM. Bringing up movie tie-in games around any dedicated gamer is bound to elicit a cringe. Games based on movies have an arguably well-deserved reputation of being notoriously bad.
