I remember my friends bought the Two Towers for my birthday when it just came out. we got to camp out in my backyard and stay up all night playing it and watching Out Cold. Memories
Yeah, the GBA versions of TTT and ROTK were genuinely credible portable Diablo-likes. They kept me sane for months at a crappy call center job in college.
I particularly enjoyed how stupidly OP Legolas could get in NG+.
Game was scary af, i remember being toward the late game in some like long corridor and i just see this thing in the distance, i took a shot at it and i see it whip around and had this like giant claw arm thing and it just starts barreling toward me and im like HOLYYY SHITTTT
man, i remember playing the demo for king kong. i loved beating the shit out of t-rexes. dunno where i could purchase the game today but i should look for it
I've never played "Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie" or "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" but I see a lot of people picking these, I might have to give them a try.
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher bay is excellent and now better than most of the movies!
The two tower and return of the king games were great fun
I love the Quantum of Solace and Bourne got a mention
This series died a death which is super annoying. Growing up, I watched Pitch Black so many times.
Possible reboot one day maybe? Although without Vinny, probably not the same vibes.
I dunno if i'm mixing it up with another bond game but it had cod style gameplay with a rainbow six Vegas style cover system it really fit my tastes as a teen
I think you are talking about James Bond 007: Blood Stone from 2010-11. It was a standalone game with Daniel Craig giving his name and likeness to the Bond character.
It was a short and somewhat clunky game but with passable shooting mechanics, a working cover system and decent gameplay.
Probably not the best of all time, but my favorite was the Peter Jackson's King Kong The Official Game of the Movie (actual title I think). That game went way harder than it had any right to, genuinely a great time.
Absolutely no HUD, genuinely great environments (on the original release, the weird remaster for 360 was bad to look at). Jack calling out how much ammo you had left on reloads had me absolutely sweating as a kid.
I was about to say this. The human shooter-survival-puzzle levels were actually pretty solid, way more than any movie tie-in game I ever played. And the Kong levels were awesome. You actually feel like an absolute BEAST when you play as him.
And then the secret ending you get is the cherry on top. I would legit play this again if given the chance
Gameplay was good actually, the combat was amazing too, the main problem was you not being Neo.
People wanted to play as Neo, not as the two side characters.
And the 2nd main main issue was the game being rushed, it wasn't polished properly and it really shows on some levels, the music also is super annoying because it starts and stops completely randomly.
Edit: Also the hacking mini game was amazing, it actually felt like you were a genius hacker.
The car combat, setting and lore are absolute top tier. Watching a dust storm roll in, hunting convoys, and the story that was based on lore for upcoming movies is amazing.
As soon as you did anything outside your car that game went downhill *fast*.
Yeah, Pod Racer is a pretty awesome game. Doesn't even matter that it's a movie tie in. If it was released as a stand alone game, it would still be awesome.
Bringing back my Ben Quadrinaros PTSD. How does he always *win*!? I just played against my brother at a family get together on an emulator and he never played as a kid and won all 3 races as Ben. I guess that’s why his engines exploded at the start of the race in the movie. Ben Q was about to smoke them and become Darth Vader
Goldeneye was definitely among the best like you said, so here are some of the other contenders in my book.
Aladdin (times two, because there were two very different games for SNES and Genesis, both good)
Batman Returns (SNES)
Super Star Wars series (SNES)
Blade Runner (PC)
Any of the old Dune games (various)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (PC)
I feel like I’m forgetting something but that’s what I can remember at the moment.
You can get a retro collection with Aladdin and Lion King. The SNES version of Aladdin isn't included in the base game but DLC has that and the Jungle Book
On the Dune games, Dune (Cryo 1992) is great, although vastly overshadowed by Dune 2.
Frank Herbert's Dune (Cryo 2001) OTOH was the tie in for the miniseries around then and it was god awful.
Rise and fall of a developer across two products, one making them and one breaking them.
Spider-Man The Movie, tie in for the first Tobey Maguire movie.
It was great and then you finish it and unlock cheats, and one of the cheats was the best thing I have ever seen in the game.
It allowed you to play through entire game as Green Goblin but it wasn't a simple reskin you had all the abilities and combos of Goblin, and instead of wall climbing you could summon the glider and glider had weapons of its own.
But it gets better, the story of entire game changes to accommodate this as well, main character is voiced by the actor who voiced Norman in normal game and main villain is Harry instead of Norman with his own looks, attacks and combos voiced by someone completely different, it was insane.
Damn, that has to be either the most dedicated and elaborate cheat code ever made in gaming history, or it was probably an extra bonus content/cut content that they decided to turn into a cheat code.
For the time it was incredible, the problem is spiderman 2 was SUCH a giant leap in graphics, smooth gameplay, and the webslinging was so good that it overshadowed the first.
Lmao didn't expect to see my favorite Star Wars game on this list. I worked at a movie theater that had that arcade game. I spent hours playing that game, never got old
Squadrons is the only VR game I return to since it doesn’t require motion controllers. It’s also my go to for showing people VR. I’ll just play the game and they’ll experience it like it like a 4D movie lol. Always blows their minds. It’s the same models that we’ve seen so many real live actors in, that it is so convincing.
I really enjoyed Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone for PC and GBC. The GBC version was a pretty well done turn-based RPG, and the PC version had great atmosphere and music (Jeremy Soule ftw).
I never played Goldeneye but I did have The World is Not Enough on the N64 and I loved it. Great missions and fun co-op.
This might sound weird, but the "Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon" game was absolutely fantastic. It was a tactical naval combat game in "space", and was surprisingly deep and could get quite difficult (forcing you to split your fleet across multiple objectives, fighting superior forces, sudden reinforcements in zones you didn't expect while still not feeling cheap/cheaty). If I recall, it followed Jim Hawkins after he graduated the naval academy and captains his first ship, and goes through a major war with another country that goes into the sudden and violent changing naval dynamics of wood vs ironclad ships (done in the style of Treasure Planet). I was so sad when my disk broke, I really should see if GoG has it sometime.
Transformers the game comes to mind
Open world Transformers game where you can play as both Autobot and Decepticon in campaigns that actually have alternate endings. In hindsight while the combat is hella repetitive, having a movie tie-in do alternate endings is incredible for such a niche genre that's been falling off in recent years
Loved the tipping sideways function to make it through tight spots at high speeds. Off by just a little, and you either blow up or severely damage yourself.
I liked buying old parts from the scrapyard for cheap and having the repair bots fix it up.
Also so many levels have secret routes, I liked the exploration
I personally love when a game is an actual 'tie-in' where it remains canon but shows things from another perspective.
The Godfather comes to mind. You play as an enforcer working for (I think) Luca Brasi. It follows the story of the first movie but shows you working behind the scenes to make events happen.
Same with Star Wars The Force Unleashed. You play as Vader's apprentice, ushering along events that happen in the movies
>The Godfather comes to mind. You play as an enforcer working for (I think) Luca Brasil. It follows the story of the first movie but shows you working behind the scenes to make events happen.
Scrollled way too long for this. Such a great game. Working through the ranks to eventually become Godfather was so much fun. This plus King Kong would be remasters I'd buy in a heartbeat.
This. Every time the game seemed to come to an end I felt like I was about to wake up from a nightmare, only to realise, there was yet more horror waiting for me. Very much like Alien and Aliens did.
I thought they did a fantastic job with that.
Atmosphere was perfect. I always loved the ship/technology design of Alien and they stayed true to all of it.
It made me so happy to see that all of the terminals were true to the original, everything is run on punch cards, all of the habitation areas were true to the film. And the additional world building, such as including seegson as a competitor to WY, felt like a realistic depiction.
So far this is the only movie game that got me to watch the movies while playing it. Had never seen the sequel Aliens before, and now I play Dead by Daylight to be the Xenomorph on the Nostromo crash site lol
Robocop Rogue City was better than it had any right to be. They didn't NEED to make it a full-on Robocop life sim, but the game was better for it.
BTW, if you haven't played the dev's previous Terminator game Resistance, check it out. It has the same sort of thing going as Rogue City where it's clearly a bit low-budget, but laser-focused on getting the *vibe* right.
There is a hulk game I played on x box that was phenomenal and so fun. When you "die" ypu just super charge the hulk and he runs around the city smashing things.. so fun to play! And I think spiderman 2 on ps2 was amazing! Came out with spiderman 2 movie with toby but the game was wayyyyy more content than the movie. Another fun game!
Well the movie was the jean Claude van dame movie being based on the game. Then they made a game based on that movie and did that picture animation like mortal combat of the movie versions
I really loved the Star Wars: Episode 3 game, need to replay it. I also have vague memories of a Quantum of Solace game that I enjoyed but am unsure it ever actually existed. Also, Mad Max is great. Special mention to all the Lego games as well, they are all worth experiencing at any age.
Any of those old LJN games could qualify as worst movie tie-in. I feel like a lot of them were generic games without a theme, then they slapped some movie title on them to shit it into stores.
The early Lego Star Wars games. My son was only about 5 when we got them to play and I didn't think they'd be very good. I was very wrong.
They may be made for kids and not be very difficult but I was really impressed with the games. They didn't take themselves too seriously and considering the lack of speech in the games they managed to convey what was happening and they had plenty of humour.
I know they have made lots more Lego games, we enjoyed the Lord Of The Rings ones and the first Raiders Of The Lost Ark games especially but the Star Wars original trilogy ones will always be my favourite.
Never played, but I know that it and The Matrix Online are cannon in the lore. The focus mechanic I think is from Enter the Matrix originally. Path of Neo just has fun with the property. Lots of jokes, 90s references, video game logic, and just fun. But the gameplay had so much weight to it for a game from 2005. I’m betting because they used mocap. Pulling off a long string of combos felt really satisfying, to the point that (similar to games like DMC) the goal was less to kill the enemies and more to whoop their asses.
Everything was jank in 2005. One of my favorite strats in og Battlefront 2 on Kasyyk was to drive a tank 180 degrees up a tree and out onto a branch overlooking the enemy spawn point. Rained missles and heavy lasers from above.
Star Wars has had a lot of great games.
Super Star Wars, Star Wars X-Wing series, Star Wars Galaxies, Jedi Academy 1 & 2, KOTOR 1 & 2, Rogue Squadron, Jedi Starfighter, Republic Commando, the original Battlefronts (remakes are not bad, just not the same), and recently of course Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor.
I’m sure I’m leaving some good entries out, but Star Wars fans have eaten good over the years even if there have been a few stinkers here and there. Here’s hoping Outlaw continues the trend of pretty damn good lately.
Enter the Matrix. They essentially shot a parallel movie to the Matrix: Reloaded. The story and acting are very well done and it explains in greater detail a lot of what's happening in the background.
Cars the Video Game, without question for me.
It was so cool that they had pretty much every voice actor reprise their roles for it. And it felt so authentic to the movie. The new characters they introduced were I believe scrapped characters meant to be in the movie, which explains why they fit so well.
X-men Origins: Wolverine
Not a great movie but man the game on the 360 and PS3, we don't take about the Wii version, has such fantastic hack and slash gameplay coupled with a great adventure story taking place in awesome set pieces. A definite recommend for anyone.
The original Cars game from 2006. It was my first open world racing game and I spent countless hours just driving around or trying to do stunts. Basically Forza Horizon if it was set in Radiator Springs (and made in 2006).
Scrolled for a while and I'm very surprised that no one has mentioned Guardians of the Galaxy as far as I know.
It's a really solid game and the voice acting is great, beautiful set pieces.
Yeah, Goldeneye for the 64 would probably be my top pick, certainly the on I spent the most time playing. There have been some good Spiderman games too.
Personally had a blast playing Middle Earth: Shadows of War. That Nemesis system is one of the greatest innovations in video games in recent years and am patiently awaiting 2035 when Warner Bros no longer has the system patented, allowing other developers to use it!!
Spiderman 2 (2004) was the best (and pretty much only **good**) video game version of Spiderman until insomniac's recent efforts, where they very much used the 2004 game as a crib sheet.
X-Men 2: Wolverines Revenge!
It was weird though. It takes place between films yet is in its own sort of world? Lots of references to other characters, Mark Hamill voiced Logan, Mr Sinister shows up and Apocalyspe at the end, Omega Red, etc.
Was a great story and awesome gameplay
My personal favorite is Mad Max. How did they make a game that so much fun, both car combat and hand combat. Every impact feels so real. Unfortunately, it was sold same day as MGS5 so maybe it was under performance sell but this game is run better than Just cause 4 lol.
Obi-wan
Was an OG Xbox launch game... You played as obi wan during the events of the 1st movie.
Was so good and so fun but it's not backwards compatible so I can't play it anymore.
King Kong was a real good playthrough, Golden Eye is definetly up there. I realy enjoy Blade Runner, realy captures the feeling from the game.
Worst, hhard to say, but I'm 99% sure it's something by Ocean Software from the early to mid 90's
Mad Max was phenomenal. Nailed the world building, lore/vibes, and fanatical madness of the movies. Felt gritty, violent and just right for a game set in that universe.
The warriors!
I’d even say it’s a must play for fans of the movie
Did that with a friend. We watched the movie then beat the game.
I think it’s awesome how they expanded on the movie in ways the seemed faithful
Underrated and one for the emulator to play through..
Return of the King
There are many, many, many nights from 2004 I cannot remember solely from playing ROTK with my cousins.
I remember my friends bought the Two Towers for my birthday when it just came out. we got to camp out in my backyard and stay up all night playing it and watching Out Cold. Memories
I really feel like Two Towers had better gameplay. Return of the King simply allowed co-op.
Two Towers was an absolute masterpiece when it was released. So much fun.
But co-op was what made it so awesome. Having a friend over and playing that together was one of the best video game experiences to have as a kid.
It was also incredibly imbalanced for solo play
Gandalf was busted af
Was that the one where you had to fight Golem at the end but didn’t have a chance to level Frodo all game? That game was awesome
Even the gba version was epic.
Yeah, the GBA versions of TTT and ROTK were genuinely credible portable Diablo-likes. They kept me sane for months at a crappy call center job in college. I particularly enjoyed how stupidly OP Legolas could get in NG+.
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith The Thing The Warriors Spider-Man 2 the Game
I was all about Star Wars Episode 3 and Spiderman 2 growing up
The Warriors
Love going back to this game. Dust of my original Xbox once a year to play through it.
Was looking for Spider-Man 2.
The Thing game needs a remake.
Game was scary af, i remember being toward the late game in some like long corridor and i just see this thing in the distance, i took a shot at it and i see it whip around and had this like giant claw arm thing and it just starts barreling toward me and im like HOLYYY SHITTTT
The Thing was great fun to find all the Easter eggs related to the movie.
man, i remember playing the demo for king kong. i loved beating the shit out of t-rexes. dunno where i could purchase the game today but i should look for it
King Kong for sure
I've never played "Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie" or "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" but I see a lot of people picking these, I might have to give them a try.
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher bay is excellent and now better than most of the movies! The two tower and return of the king games were great fun I love the Quantum of Solace and Bourne got a mention
Chronicles Of Riddick was really good.
This series died a death which is super annoying. Growing up, I watched Pitch Black so many times. Possible reboot one day maybe? Although without Vinny, probably not the same vibes.
I read the other day that they’re working on another one
Today I learned that they made a Quantum of Solace game. Of all the Daniel Craig Bond movies, they chose the worst one to make a game of...
I dunno if i'm mixing it up with another bond game but it had cod style gameplay with a rainbow six Vegas style cover system it really fit my tastes as a teen
I think you are talking about James Bond 007: Blood Stone from 2010-11. It was a standalone game with Daniel Craig giving his name and likeness to the Bond character. It was a short and somewhat clunky game but with passable shooting mechanics, a working cover system and decent gameplay.
That's funny because Quantum of Solace was my choice for worst game.
Probably not the best of all time, but my favorite was the Peter Jackson's King Kong The Official Game of the Movie (actual title I think). That game went way harder than it had any right to, genuinely a great time.
I wish this game would get remade. It had no right being as good as it was, and it released for only $20 at my local Dollar General store.
Absolutely no HUD, genuinely great environments (on the original release, the weird remaster for 360 was bad to look at). Jack calling out how much ammo you had left on reloads had me absolutely sweating as a kid.
I was about to say this. The human shooter-survival-puzzle levels were actually pretty solid, way more than any movie tie-in game I ever played. And the Kong levels were awesome. You actually feel like an absolute BEAST when you play as him. And then the secret ending you get is the cherry on top. I would legit play this again if given the chance
My brother was obsessed with this game as a kid.
Enter the matrix was dope.
While it probably wasn't the best in gameplay, the "tie in" part was something else. It really felt like an extension of the movie
Gameplay was good actually, the combat was amazing too, the main problem was you not being Neo. People wanted to play as Neo, not as the two side characters. And the 2nd main main issue was the game being rushed, it wasn't polished properly and it really shows on some levels, the music also is super annoying because it starts and stops completely randomly. Edit: Also the hacking mini game was amazing, it actually felt like you were a genius hacker.
But we did eventually get Path of Neo and it was an incredible game.
Riddick: Escape from Butcher's Bay. Sooooo good and underrated game!!
Yes.
Mad max
I think a lot of people turned their noses up at Mad Max thinking it was just another movie tie-in cash grab, but it's actually a great game👍
The car combat, setting and lore are absolute top tier. Watching a dust storm roll in, hunting convoys, and the story that was based on lore for upcoming movies is amazing. As soon as you did anything outside your car that game went downhill *fast*.
"Ohh, it's a mighty duster!!"
The lightning strikes were terrifying at first too.
It was made by the Just Cause 2 team, which explains why the destructon and explosions are so great.
The game nailed the car combat *and* the fistfights. Rare achievement right there.
On my back log to play actually.
May wanna move it to the top of your play list. It’s supposedly cannon to the universe and will be referenced in the new movie
Pod Racer. Ez
Yeah, Pod Racer is a pretty awesome game. Doesn't even matter that it's a movie tie in. If it was released as a stand alone game, it would still be awesome.
It's a new track record.
Beautiful world building - honestly my favorite racing game of all time
Bringing back my Ben Quadrinaros PTSD. How does he always *win*!? I just played against my brother at a family get together on an emulator and he never played as a kid and won all 3 races as Ben. I guess that’s why his engines exploded at the start of the race in the movie. Ben Q was about to smoke them and become Darth Vader
Goldeneye was definitely among the best like you said, so here are some of the other contenders in my book. Aladdin (times two, because there were two very different games for SNES and Genesis, both good) Batman Returns (SNES) Super Star Wars series (SNES) Blade Runner (PC) Any of the old Dune games (various) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (PC) I feel like I’m forgetting something but that’s what I can remember at the moment.
Super Star Wars were good. Hard though. I liked Indiana Jones and the infernal machine too actually.
Agreed about the Super Star Wars game difficulty. Good music, good graphics… good grief, I just died again. 😉
Aaaaand now I have the SNES Aladdin 1st level stage theme stuck in my head
Love those SNES shout outs.
Batman returns was so much fun, damn I forgot how much I played it, taking turns with my cousin.
The “escape from the lava” stage in Aladdin was my nemesis.
You can get a retro collection with Aladdin and Lion King. The SNES version of Aladdin isn't included in the base game but DLC has that and the Jungle Book
On the Dune games, Dune (Cryo 1992) is great, although vastly overshadowed by Dune 2. Frank Herbert's Dune (Cryo 2001) OTOH was the tie in for the miniseries around then and it was god awful. Rise and fall of a developer across two products, one making them and one breaking them.
I had last crusade on my Amiga 500, that train was a bitch at the beginning.
Spider-Man The Movie, tie in for the first Tobey Maguire movie. It was great and then you finish it and unlock cheats, and one of the cheats was the best thing I have ever seen in the game. It allowed you to play through entire game as Green Goblin but it wasn't a simple reskin you had all the abilities and combos of Goblin, and instead of wall climbing you could summon the glider and glider had weapons of its own. But it gets better, the story of entire game changes to accommodate this as well, main character is voiced by the actor who voiced Norman in normal game and main villain is Harry instead of Norman with his own looks, attacks and combos voiced by someone completely different, it was insane.
Damn, that has to be either the most dedicated and elaborate cheat code ever made in gaming history, or it was probably an extra bonus content/cut content that they decided to turn into a cheat code.
I never see anyone talk about this game, only the 2nd one. It was so good, and for the time I felt like the graphics were incredible!
For the time it was incredible, the problem is spiderman 2 was SUCH a giant leap in graphics, smooth gameplay, and the webslinging was so good that it overshadowed the first.
Damn, that sounds very good, like if it was a completely different game
The Bourne Identity game slapped. Quantum of Solace on the Cod Engine. Mission Impossible on the N64 (personal opinion as it was jank as fuck)
Mission Impossible was very jank "Rock steady"...
Star Wars Rogue Squadron Also, the Star Wars joystick arcade game where you lightsaber duel Darth Vader.
Lmao didn't expect to see my favorite Star Wars game on this list. I worked at a movie theater that had that arcade game. I spent hours playing that game, never got old
Squadrons is the only VR game I return to since it doesn’t require motion controllers. It’s also my go to for showing people VR. I’ll just play the game and they’ll experience it like it like a 4D movie lol. Always blows their minds. It’s the same models that we’ve seen so many real live actors in, that it is so convincing.
Those devs did amazing things with the hardware they had. Factor 5 had ALOT of talent in their walls.
I really enjoyed Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone for PC and GBC. The GBC version was a pretty well done turn-based RPG, and the PC version had great atmosphere and music (Jeremy Soule ftw). I never played Goldeneye but I did have The World is Not Enough on the N64 and I loved it. Great missions and fun co-op.
Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Order of the Phoenix were great too!
This might sound weird, but the "Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon" game was absolutely fantastic. It was a tactical naval combat game in "space", and was surprisingly deep and could get quite difficult (forcing you to split your fleet across multiple objectives, fighting superior forces, sudden reinforcements in zones you didn't expect while still not feeling cheap/cheaty). If I recall, it followed Jim Hawkins after he graduated the naval academy and captains his first ship, and goes through a major war with another country that goes into the sudden and violent changing naval dynamics of wood vs ironclad ships (done in the style of Treasure Planet). I was so sad when my disk broke, I really should see if GoG has it sometime.
It's on steam. Still got my copy there.
Transformers the game comes to mind Open world Transformers game where you can play as both Autobot and Decepticon in campaigns that actually have alternate endings. In hindsight while the combat is hella repetitive, having a movie tie-in do alternate endings is incredible for such a niche genre that's been falling off in recent years
Didn't played a lt of them, but i think the "SpongeBob: The Movie: The Game" was good
Spiderman 1 & 2 Small Soldiers Wolverine
Which Wolverine game? And why is the only correct answer X-Men Origins Wolverine?
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Man the Small Soldiers game, my computer lagged like crazy trying to play that at the time, but I remember it being very cool.
This one isn't the best but I still had loads of fun with it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/808910/STAR_WARS_Episode_I_Racer/
Had it as a kid. Its a good racer.
Loved the tipping sideways function to make it through tight spots at high speeds. Off by just a little, and you either blow up or severely damage yourself.
I liked buying old parts from the scrapyard for cheap and having the repair bots fix it up. Also so many levels have secret routes, I liked the exploration
Die Hard
I personally love when a game is an actual 'tie-in' where it remains canon but shows things from another perspective. The Godfather comes to mind. You play as an enforcer working for (I think) Luca Brasi. It follows the story of the first movie but shows you working behind the scenes to make events happen. Same with Star Wars The Force Unleashed. You play as Vader's apprentice, ushering along events that happen in the movies
>The Godfather comes to mind. You play as an enforcer working for (I think) Luca Brasil. It follows the story of the first movie but shows you working behind the scenes to make events happen. Scrollled way too long for this. Such a great game. Working through the ranks to eventually become Godfather was so much fun. This plus King Kong would be remasters I'd buy in a heartbeat.
the godfather was my shit, played thru it so many times on ps2, then again on Xbox 360
"I'm not paying you anything" *puts head through shop window* "Okay okay I'll pay" Ah good times, definitely in my top 5 games I love it.
You just reminded me of that Scar Face game, terrible continuation of the story but fun gameplay action all the same.
Alien: Isolation I'm a little biased but it thought it did a great job of capturing the horror of Alien
This. Every time the game seemed to come to an end I felt like I was about to wake up from a nightmare, only to realise, there was yet more horror waiting for me. Very much like Alien and Aliens did.
I thought they did a fantastic job with that. Atmosphere was perfect. I always loved the ship/technology design of Alien and they stayed true to all of it.
It made me so happy to see that all of the terminals were true to the original, everything is run on punch cards, all of the habitation areas were true to the film. And the additional world building, such as including seegson as a competitor to WY, felt like a realistic depiction.
So far this is the only movie game that got me to watch the movies while playing it. Had never seen the sequel Aliens before, and now I play Dead by Daylight to be the Xenomorph on the Nostromo crash site lol
Kung Fu Panda was FAR better than a tie-in to a kids movie had any right to be.
Goldeneye Alien: Isolation Robocop: Rogue City
Is it really a tie-in game when it comes out decades after the movie?
Yeah Alien Isolation is amazing at least. Definitely the best I've played in terms of movie tie-ins I think. Easily the first that comes to mind.
It is in my book.
Robocop Rogue City was better than it had any right to be. They didn't NEED to make it a full-on Robocop life sim, but the game was better for it. BTW, if you haven't played the dev's previous Terminator game Resistance, check it out. It has the same sort of thing going as Rogue City where it's clearly a bit low-budget, but laser-focused on getting the *vibe* right.
Shrek 2
Batman begins
Spiderman 2
There is a hulk game I played on x box that was phenomenal and so fun. When you "die" ypu just super charge the hulk and he runs around the city smashing things.. so fun to play! And I think spiderman 2 on ps2 was amazing! Came out with spiderman 2 movie with toby but the game was wayyyyy more content than the movie. Another fun game!
Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. Not strictly a movie tie-in but it was fun as hell.
Worst game based on a movie is hands down Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game
Haha hows that title though?
Well the movie was the jean Claude van dame movie being based on the game. Then they made a game based on that movie and did that picture animation like mortal combat of the movie versions
Fun fact: Mortal Kombat's development code name was Van Damme. Full circle!
I didn't know that bit so fun fact indeed.
Street Fighter The Movie: The Game is indeed, truly awful. But worst? Are you forgetting about E.T.?
Toy Story for Sega Genesis.
Super Star Wars series on SNES
I really loved the Star Wars: Episode 3 game, need to replay it. I also have vague memories of a Quantum of Solace game that I enjoyed but am unsure it ever actually existed. Also, Mad Max is great. Special mention to all the Lego games as well, they are all worth experiencing at any age.
Toy Story 2 on the ps1 was downright amazing fun.
Mad Max: vehicle and close quartes combat is really fun and it managed to portray the theme very well
You should rephrase the question: Goldeneye is the best movie tie-in game ever made. What is the second best?
Back to the Future for the NES was terrible.
I love BTTF (my brother has a DeLorean), but that game was so fucking terrible. Might be the first game I rage quit as a kid.
Any of those old LJN games could qualify as worst movie tie-in. I feel like a lot of them were generic games without a theme, then they slapped some movie title on them to shit it into stores.
For a GOOD NES movie tie-in game, look to Batman by Sunsoft. One of my favorite NES games and the music goes HARD.
Hot take: ET was fine. You just need to read the manual.
Once I got the hang of it I flipped that game.
For me spiderman 2
The early Lego Star Wars games. My son was only about 5 when we got them to play and I didn't think they'd be very good. I was very wrong. They may be made for kids and not be very difficult but I was really impressed with the games. They didn't take themselves too seriously and considering the lack of speech in the games they managed to convey what was happening and they had plenty of humour. I know they have made lots more Lego games, we enjoyed the Lord Of The Rings ones and the first Raiders Of The Lost Ark games especially but the Star Wars original trilogy ones will always be my favourite.
The Matrix Path of Neo. It isn’t even close.
I only ever played Enter the Matrix. Any comparison?
Never played, but I know that it and The Matrix Online are cannon in the lore. The focus mechanic I think is from Enter the Matrix originally. Path of Neo just has fun with the property. Lots of jokes, 90s references, video game logic, and just fun. But the gameplay had so much weight to it for a game from 2005. I’m betting because they used mocap. Pulling off a long string of combos felt really satisfying, to the point that (similar to games like DMC) the goal was less to kill the enemies and more to whoop their asses.
I played that entire game to do the Burly Brawl from *Reloaded*. And it was completely worth it.
The scene before the last fight with the Wachowski's trying to decide whether or not the film supports fate or freewill was highly amusing to me.
I kinda liked the fighting in thr matrix game. Jank as though. SHINY made weird games.
Everything was jank in 2005. One of my favorite strats in og Battlefront 2 on Kasyyk was to drive a tank 180 degrees up a tree and out onto a branch overlooking the enemy spawn point. Rained missles and heavy lasers from above.
Ratchet and Clank PS4 Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3 (You could fill this entire post with Start Wars games TBH)
Jedi Power Battles
Yessss found it finally! Wish I could emulate this and play it online with a friend
Star Wars has had a lot of great games. Super Star Wars, Star Wars X-Wing series, Star Wars Galaxies, Jedi Academy 1 & 2, KOTOR 1 & 2, Rogue Squadron, Jedi Starfighter, Republic Commando, the original Battlefronts (remakes are not bad, just not the same), and recently of course Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor. I’m sure I’m leaving some good entries out, but Star Wars fans have eaten good over the years even if there have been a few stinkers here and there. Here’s hoping Outlaw continues the trend of pretty damn good lately.
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga.
The Lego games for star wars and such are very good.
obviously Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game
Enter the Matrix. They essentially shot a parallel movie to the Matrix: Reloaded. The story and acting are very well done and it explains in greater detail a lot of what's happening in the background.
Alien Isolation
Riddick: Escape from butcher bay was amazing. Also little Nemo (NES) and Hook (snes)
Scarface and The warriors
Batman Returns on SNES is arguably the best Batman game until Arkham Asylum came out.
The Incredibles for the PS2 was pretty hype.
Max Max is directly tied into the movie and an amazing game. The wolverine game was also fantastic.
Cars the Video Game, without question for me. It was so cool that they had pretty much every voice actor reprise their roles for it. And it felt so authentic to the movie. The new characters they introduced were I believe scrapped characters meant to be in the movie, which explains why they fit so well.
X-men Origins: Wolverine Not a great movie but man the game on the 360 and PS3, we don't take about the Wii version, has such fantastic hack and slash gameplay coupled with a great adventure story taking place in awesome set pieces. A definite recommend for anyone.
The original Cars game from 2006. It was my first open world racing game and I spent countless hours just driving around or trying to do stunts. Basically Forza Horizon if it was set in Radiator Springs (and made in 2006).
Mad max or the star wars battlefront series
Gonna have to go with lego star wars here
Scrolled for a while and I'm very surprised that no one has mentioned Guardians of the Galaxy as far as I know. It's a really solid game and the voice acting is great, beautiful set pieces.
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
Surprised nobody has said The Lion King for SNES yet. That game went harder than it had any right to.
Yeah, Goldeneye for the 64 would probably be my top pick, certainly the on I spent the most time playing. There have been some good Spiderman games too.
The Matrix: Path of Neo is a good one
Battlefront 2 (2005)
Personally had a blast playing Middle Earth: Shadows of War. That Nemesis system is one of the greatest innovations in video games in recent years and am patiently awaiting 2035 when Warner Bros no longer has the system patented, allowing other developers to use it!!
Gonna go with spider-man 2
Riddick - Escape from Butcher Bay
The lotr games on ps2 and true lies on the snes loved that one
Friday the 13th.
Spiderman 2 (2004) was the best (and pretty much only **good**) video game version of Spiderman until insomniac's recent efforts, where they very much used the 2004 game as a crib sheet.
The Chronicles of Riddick
Spider-Man 2 the Game
Peter Jackson’s King King on PS2 was pretty great from what I remember.
I mean it’s obviously Goldeneye, but I’d be curious to see what people think the second best one is.
Spider-Man 2 the Movie the Game has to be up there
X-Men 2: Wolverines Revenge! It was weird though. It takes place between films yet is in its own sort of world? Lots of references to other characters, Mark Hamill voiced Logan, Mr Sinister shows up and Apocalyspe at the end, Omega Red, etc. Was a great story and awesome gameplay
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay.
The Spongebob Movie game.
My personal favorite is Mad Max. How did they make a game that so much fun, both car combat and hand combat. Every impact feels so real. Unfortunately, it was sold same day as MGS5 so maybe it was under performance sell but this game is run better than Just cause 4 lol.
Obi-wan Was an OG Xbox launch game... You played as obi wan during the events of the 1st movie. Was so good and so fun but it's not backwards compatible so I can't play it anymore.
The Mummy Demastered is a very solid metroidvania.
King Kong was a real good playthrough, Golden Eye is definetly up there. I realy enjoy Blade Runner, realy captures the feeling from the game. Worst, hhard to say, but I'm 99% sure it's something by Ocean Software from the early to mid 90's
Bugs Life on PS1 was legit good fun, and the entire movie was basically cut up and placed in the game as clips. Child me loved it.
Loved Mad Max. It was free on PS plus and I’m glad I got to experience that sleeper hit.
Mad Max was phenomenal. Nailed the world building, lore/vibes, and fanatical madness of the movies. Felt gritty, violent and just right for a game set in that universe.
The X-Men Origins wolverine game was unreal, I remember being blown away at the real time healing effects
The game that came out with that horrible Mummy reboot was amazing
Star Wars the arcade game Atari early 1980 something.. I pumped so many freaking quarters into that thing.
The Wolverine Origins game was dope
Xmen origins wolverine. That game was fucking glorious
This is gonna sound strange, but the Shrek 2 game honestly goes so hard. Great for couch coop.
Either Hulk game
Wolverine uncaged edition. That game was violent and everything the movie failed to be.
X-men Origins: Wolverine