There are plenty of spin offs and tie ins but not adaptations (save for Lego) for some reason. Obviously this isn’t the case for the reverse.
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There are plenty though?
Like, List of Middle-earth video games from Wikipedia just for LOTR alone
edit: changed the link so it drops you to the “Official games based on the films” section
John Wick is getting another videogame adaptation too
The fuck you talking about? There are tons of video games adapted from movies. Like so many it was literally a meme in the 90s. And they were usually fucking terrible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_based_on_films
So many things on this list are directly copying the plot beats of the movies they are based on if not straight up just a playable version of the film.
And then you have crap like League of Legends that doesn’t even try to follow the plot or visual design of Arcane.
What were they thinking??
Lmao nice
Point taken, I guess I should’ve specified nowadays and “few”.
As others have pointed out in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s there were tons of them. It was pretty much guaranteed if a movie came out, pretty much any movie, there’d be a game for it. even tv shows. Hell there was even a game for the movie The Lawnmower Man and the show Home Improvement.
The reason they stopped making them for every theatrical release or tv show is very few, if any, were any good and modern games take a lot longer to make than 16 or 32bit era games. Movies take what? a year or two to make? games now take a lot longer. you had to release the tie in game as soon or very shortly after a movie/show release. Also I don’t think it was very profitable.
Add to the fact the vast majority of them weren’t very good. I can count on one or two hands the good ones. Batman on the NES, Jurassic Park on the Genesis, Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay, Enter the Matrix, Aladdin on the Genesis, LOTR The Two Towers and Return of the King, um really struggling to think of others at this point. Top Gun on the NES was pretty decent as was Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Xbox.
It’s also the same reason you don’t see Toys for movies anymore. I mean hell when I was a kid they had toy lines for Terminator 2 and Aliens which arguably weren’t kid movies. Even Robocop and Rambo had toylines. You just don’t see the merch for movies anymore because I guess it wasn’t profitable in the long run.
As I replied to sb else, I didn’t mean tie ins that come out with or shortly around the movie, I meant adaptations that use a movie as the ‘source material’.
Mad Max says VROOOOOOOOM BAM BAM BAM
Mad Max was a surprisingly fun game. Probably the only movie game I’ve played that was worth it. Other than something like the LEGO games.
Most of them were terrible, all the money goes into getting the ip, so they’re both low-budget, and uncreative, paint-by-numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_based_on_films
There are exceptions, like Alien:Isolation, 007(back in like 1999), the mafia games (which are just goodfellas and Godfather with the label scratched off), gta: vc, which is 80% Scarface.
Ty for the suggestions
Alien:Isolation is the only one worth looking at for any reason but understanding history of video games. The others were very much of their eras.
There’s like a few Harry Potter and LOTR adaptation, and then there’s Street Fighter The Movie The Video Game. It just isn’t worth the dev time these day i guess, because people will just watch the movie.
There is a Robocop game from 2023 which is quite good and true to the movies.
Schindler’s list would be an interesting game.
Have you seen the Monster Hunter movie? That’s why .
