Video games based on movies have a bad track record; most of them suck, it's the law or something. Bad movies tend to have bad games and good movies tend to have surprisingly bad games.

To my mind, the Godfather game is only movie based game that doesn't suck something awful. What do you guys think?

What about Goldeneye?

Indigo_Dingo:
What about Goldeneye?

Of course! How could I forget that! Silly me.

IRONMAN looks pretty good.

I think that lists all of them.

Oh wait, if all the violence of 300 appealed to you immensely, if you like cleaving your way through legions of slaves in only a cape and loincloth then 300: March to Glory for PSP is a good choice. Overall its the game is a simplistic version of God Of War, but it is much better than most movie games.

The Demo for "The Bourne Conspiracy" was pretty good. Not great, but good. If the game is exactly as the Demo, then it should be good as well.

I heard some of the Lord of the Rings games were pretty good.

In the history of video games, only 2 movie-based games where great.
Second place-The Warriors-Not only it went back to explain why the Warriors had so many enemies, but the beat-em-up style gameplay with many perks made it different from the rest,
First place-Goldeneye 007-Need I say more?

Razzle Bathbone:
I heard some of the Lord of the Rings games were pretty good.

I didn't really like the 'Arcadey' feel of The two Towers and Return of the king, I would've liked it if it had tried to run the levels together instead of throwing you back to the menu screen every 10 minutes, but then it would've been less obvious you were winning extras.

Most of those good things I heard were in relation to the RTS games, not the action-adventure ones. Didn't play them though, so I can't vouch for the truth of it.

Most of the movie games i have played turned out to be really bad. The only one that really didnt dissapoint me was Godfather, but that still got a bit tedious after the first hour of game play.

Riddick?

Anarchemitis:
IRONMAN looks pretty good.

Played Iron Man on PS2 & PSP......sucks, maybe theres more on offer on the 360 version, the clip I watched saw Iron Man grab an incoming missile then throwing it back.

Which reminds me...

I loved Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (ok ok not based on the film but the game that WAS based on it should be stricken from the history books! David Banner stealth levels ftl!)

Surely honourable mention must go to Spiderman 2 on PS2! (Death to Spiderman 3, the game AND the movie!)

Agreed on the Goldeneye thing, I bought an N64 purely for that gorgeous bit of code! Perfect Dark a nice follow up by...was it Rare? (can't be bothered to open up a new tab for Google)

Arcticflame:
Riddick?

Yeah that was supposed to be good. Played the demo but wasn't in an FPS mood. Heard good things though.

the spider-man game's were pretty cool but were nearly impossible to clear.
except the third one, that was too easy.

a can vouch for riddick's excellence. Neck-snapping prison-escaping shotgun-toting night-vision fun all round.

the only games based on movies iv come across that are any good are the james bond FPS's they were quite decent

Batman motherfuckin' Returns for the NES. Not only is it one of the best games for the NES, it's also a damn movie-game.

Lightbulb:

Arcticflame:
Riddick?

Yeah that was supposed to be good. Played the demo but wasn't in an FPS mood. Heard good things though.

Escape from Butcher Bay, though, really wasn't based on a movie. It was sort of a tie in between two movies. So, I'm not sure it exactly counts. But yes, it was very good.

GoldenEye sort of, but only because of the multiplayer. The actual game itself, I thought, was "meh".

I'd also say a SLEW of Star Wars based games. Direct adaptations (other than maybe Lego) aside, some of the spin offs were very good, like the Jedi Knight series.

What's worse, though: Moveis based on games, or games based on movies (let's leave Uwe Ball out of it, because he just skews the curve)?

I loved Indiana Jones and the last crusade. The Adventure from 1989. Also, if that counts, the Alien versus Predator series.

LOTR games were good as movie tie ins though prety average games.

Goldeneye is & always will be awsome, though probably more for nostalgia reasons then it actually being a great game

The Punisher is a good game I thought though its not really based on the movie at all

Transformers. That is probably one of the only Wii games that have a GTA feel of it.

As long as the game didn't come out as the same time of the movie just because when a franchise is released you have to put it on every form of media possible, then there are chances it's going to be good.

The Lego series is pretty damn fun

Shadows of the Empire stands out to me along with Goldeneye. I'd say the beautiful SNES version of Jurassic Park save for the fact that there was NO save/continue feature whatsoever and a nonexistent ending. It takes the bronze.

2 really great ones:
Blade Runner
Both Indiana Jones Lucasarts Adventures

And 2 okayish:
The Thing
Riddick

Jedi Knight 2, Knights Of The Old Republic, X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter... Wait, does Star Wars even count?

Red 5 standing by! Sit down version was brilliant.

Aliens/The Simpsons(?)/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Streetfighter (THE ANIMATED VERSION)/Bruce Lee/The Goonies/Die Hard

What's worse, though: Moveis based on games, or games based on movies

Movies based on games...I can think of perhaps 2 that have worked. And I'm including Doom as one of them.

Not sure if anyone likes but hell... Scarface: The World is yours...okay its more a what if game rather than the actual movie but it still appealed to me....
Goldeneye was one of my first ever videogames, shooting blocky soldeirs/guards in the ass sweet, sweet bliss.
The Godfather was good, preferred it to the film, but a bit to lenghty and repititive.....

One of the Spiderman Games?

Scarface: The World is Yours is really great competition for the GTA throne. It did so many things better. I loved it! It was a cool what if game, definitely.

Predator: Concrete Jungle is also great. You can use camoflage, heatvision, and voice mimic, plus much much more. It lets you skin people and dangle them from bilboards etc.. You can rip out peoples spinal columns, climb up walls, use cool weapons, change outfits, traverse large cities. Loved it.

Right now I'm playing Hulk: Ultimate Destruction after hearing about it on these forums. It's so much fun!

The Spider man games made after the movies were actually pretty good.

and if we count star wars than the Battlefront series was really good.

Irrok the Wide:
Scarface: The World is Yours is really great competition for the GTA throne. It did so many things better.

Of course it is, its Vice City with a story.

They're not really based on movies, but movie IP's so they technically count:
I liked the SpiderMan game, Indiana Jones game, and Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire for the N64. And don't forget the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat 'em ups. They might have been mediocre games in hindsight, but hell, I loved me some SotE back when I was a kid.