The Bourne Conspiracy
the demo sold me on buying that game

I have to agree with the verdict of Iron Man not being all that bad. I played the demo and found it a little difficult to control at first, but inverted the Y-axis for flying and turned down the sensitivity and started really having fun with it. I'll probably buy the full game if I get the chance.

The_root_of_all_evil:

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.

I'm curious as to what the second one is then, because I too can think of 2 really good video game based movies, neither of which are Doom (although I did love the FPS sequence to DEATH). I am, of course, referring to Silent Hill and Mortal Kombat.

Star Wars everything (never gets old)
LOTR: Fellowship of The Ring
LOTR: Two Towers
LOTR: Battle For Middle Earth

Eyclonus:

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.

What story? The entire game is a lull between the movies explosive finale and the games. Sure, its got action, but its all to do with getting the money and the power (and hence, the women), with nothing to do with Sosa until the end.

I've got it! Interactive Weird Al music video: the game!

The Two Towers and Return of the King were pretty solid beat-em-ups. Spider Man 2 is a great rental, but it gets samey really fast.

While it's not strictly based on a movie, 007: Everything or Nothing was pretty cool. I thought it looked good, had decent controls, and had some very fun stuff in it (i.e. the cliff dive scene, 'Bond moments'). While there have been a lot of stellar Bond games, I feel this one kind of gets lost in the shuffle.

The King Kong game wasn't THAT bad, was it?

weirdaljedifan2:
Transformers. That is probably one of the only Wii games that have a GTA feel of it.

i played that game on my ps2 and i think id rather toss up 24 hours straight than go through that again

Eyclonus:

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.

wow nice bash on vice city dillweed i liked that game (personally i liked it more than half of san andreas)

Irrok the Wide:

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.

While it was great that it had those features, the thing that REALLY let it down in my opinion was the half-baked stealth element and clumsy controls. As the Predator, you're not going to want to take on a large group of enemies head on (especially when you handle like a minivan with four flat tyres); you want to pick them off one by one with your lithe skills. However I found too often the game would force you into a firefight with multiple enemies, or in later levels, put you in a wide open space with no spots of cover, rendering your stealth abilities absolutely useless.

Darkrai:
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?

Hitting someone in the face with a brick never, ever, got old. Loved that game, I was living in NYC when I was playing it and went out to Coney just to see the Wonder Wheel.

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN YOU DIIIIIIG IT????

Blasphemous! No movie games are good.

... **Clears throat** Ok, maybe I was a bit overzealous. I mean, Spiderman 2, while not great, was some fun... Other than that, yeh, they can all burn.

Pretty much just The Chronicles of Riddick. Though I guess Spiderman 2 wasn't so bad.

Edit:

Oh yeah, and The Warriors is pretty good, the hand to hand combat is really nice and brutal.

goldeneye: rogue agent is great, even when you fight those guys with the OMEN guns that kill you in one hit LoL

Ummm....you've all neglected an Epic movie that was followed by an even Epic...er...game.

Independence Day.

"Welcome to Earth."

L4Y Duke:
The King Kong game wasn't THAT bad, was it?

If throwing infinite amounts of spears and bits of bone at things is your bag.

Goldeneye hands down, so many wonderful memories, my friends come over and we still play the bugger. Pistols, Licence to kill, hmmm. Star Wars has had many wonderful incarnations and many terrible ones. Does AvP count? How can anyone forget Lion King and Aladdin? Darn they were good platformers, back when Disney cranked out good games. Discs of Tron and Tron for that matter. Jurassic Park on the snes was so freaking great, many a day wasted. Same goes for Batman Returns on the snes, enjoyable little beat em up and as a kid I found it bleeding hard. I must also agree on Chronicles of Riddick, it actually had a story! In fact I'm going to go play it now. Bye.

hulk ultimate destruction was great! imagine gta only you are big green and angry. its so much fun, you can literally punch missiles back to their senders. how rediculously awesome is that? great game though, also had a lot of fun taking a bus, flattening it and surfing around the streets on top of it. that game is just way cool. and the abilities are just too much fun.

Irrok the Wide:
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.

Yeah, that is exactly what I was thinking... Glad I read through to see if anyone else said it. Scarface is an incredibly good game. Definitely more replay value than Grand Theft Auto.

SaneIntolerant:

I'm curious as to what the second one is then, because I too can think of 2 really good video game based movies, neither of which are Doom (although I did love the FPS sequence to DEATH). I am, of course, referring to Silent Hill and Mortal Kombat.

I'll give you a clue; it wasn't Mortal Kombat, much as I enjoy that franchise, the movie was a Channel 5 affair. I've seen better on late night Bravo.

The only top quality games I can think of are The Chronicles of Riddick and Lego StarWars. The first was really good, the second was fun and good for a laugh.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors isn't based on any specific movie, but it's certainly movie based. And it kicks butt for the generations.

Also, Alien 3 and Stargate and possibly the Super Star Wars series are pretty underestimated.

In short, SNES had the best movie games. :D

Sigh... There have been (in my opinion) NO games that come from movies that were good. Other than maybe Goldeneye, LotR, and possibly StarWars (which has been dragged out like a zombie and is being repeated like Van Helsing on sci-fi). They all follow a story line which you already know, they voice acting is most likely horrible, and they overall just plain suck. Flame me for all you want but its the TRUTH!

Alien Vs Predator was awesome. Pity Vista doesn't like it. Grrr. AvP2 sucked.

Robocop Vs The Terminator and the Genesis/Megadrive was fun, as was Alien3 (I think someone mentioned that one)

- Alien versus Predator 1 and 2 come to mind, though they're technically based on any of the movies but rather more based on the Alien and Predator Universe.(games were released years before Paul Anderson decided to make the movie)

The games were really descent First Person Shooters and honerable momenst is the horror-themed FPS the game is when playing the Marine campaign or when exploring the Alien-infested lairs even as a Predator (those facehuggers are the 1-hit-1-kill equivalent of Half-Lifes headcrabs, only a fuck-a-ton faster and they can climb any surface/wall/ceiling...)
I also recall the game having pretty descent and interesting Multiplayer.

- The Matrix: Path of Neo

Now this game while not being among the best shooters out there; compared to it's predecessor 'Enter the Matrix' - it wasn't bad. Interesting concept, it was pretty descent on the X-box.
While the gameplay was a tad broken a time the game offered some interesting levels, interesting skills and abilities and offering just an average shooter which isn't bad at all compared to all the other Movie-Licensed games out there.

- Robocop the Arcade game

This is aclassical shooter that I remember liking back in teh days of the arcades.
I rememeber the game being ported to NES and some other systems and I can't say how well those are, but the arcade game was nice. It was a basic sidescrolling shooter that had all the gameplay elements you'd expect.

Goldeneye 007.

Not only is it a good movie game, it is one of the best First Person Shooters.

The LOTR games were good. Both Star Wars Battlefront games were good (even they were essentially just multiplayer with bots). And despite having horrendous voice acting, and being more repetitive than...well, think of the most repetitive thing ever, then think about doing it about 15 times; that gives you the Spider Man 2 game. But if you could get past that, the swinging and combat controls were really great, and actually made it possible for me to ignore the repetitiveness and crappy voice acting.

Alien 3 for the genesis. The controls were a little wonky, but it was scary as hell!

Tie Fighter for the PC (oooh, that makes me feel old!).

It all rather depends on what you define a movie based game to be - Goldeneye is, after all, only very loosely based on the film, and Riddick is explicitly a prequel. Both are still excellent games though.

Most tie-ins, released at the time of the film, often with a goal of just cashing in, well, most of those are a bit crappy.

Most of the games released outside of this window, with a decent dev time, tend to turn out okay - AVP, a lot of the older PC star wars games, and so on...

The SNES Disney games were great. Except Jungle Book, I couldn't stand that game.

I was just about to type in that no one had mentioned the origional X-Wing or Tie Fighter but I guess I got beaten too the punch. Most movie tie-ins are made quickly to cash in on the movie and generally are designed to not be terrible rather than to be good.

Does Kingdom Hearts count as a movie tie-in? My sister claims that it and it's sequel are the best games ever made although it generally causes me to want to hurl.

Anyone ever play the old Terminator 2 arcade game? Sure, it inserted plenty of scenes and things that just didn't happen in the movie, but it was a hell of a fun game to play - mostly because it was a shooter. Can't really complain there.

Anarchemitis:
IRONMAN looks pretty good.

I take it you've yet to play it then.
It's only half finished, what is finished sucks.

Aside from Goldeneye, no movie tie in has ever been great.
A few have been average by dint of not being broken, but Only Goldeneye is great.

Goldeneye of course. But to say something no one else has, what about the three SNES Star Wars games? Sure, the challenge was brutal on them, but they were still well made, with levels from the movies, character selection, and well done vehicle sections.

I thought the Spider-Man game which came out along with Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man movie was better than the movie. But then again, that's more because the movie was horrifically bad than because the game was actually terribly good.

I personally quite liked Spider-Man 2. The whole free-roaming atmosphere, and the helping citizens in need part gave it a feel that I quite liked. A sort of "day in the life of a super-hero" feel.

From Russia With Love wasn't that bad either, laregly because although it stuck to the story, it wasn't afraid to add in some crazy set pieces.