The only one I can think of is goldeneye on the N64, the rest are just cheapo games made in 1 month to cash in on a films success

Though the puzzles are more of a casual level Prince Caspian is the first game this year where I haven't felt let down by spending money on it. (Stupid GTA4, Brawl, Phantom Hour Glass and Army of Two)

#click# can you hear that? it's the sound of a thread being locked...

Also, Goldeneye.

I think the only film games that are good are the ones where they have a licence to be original not just blindly follow the film's plot.

Aladdin on the Megadrive was good. The SNES version not so much. Plus the Riddick game, Butcher's Bay I think, is meant to be very good. I have it but haven't played it yet.

it would be easyer to answer if the topic was games spawned from movies that DO suck.
there would be a hell of a lot more posts!

Duck Tales on the Gameboy was pretty sweet.

I seem to remember The Simpsons Game for the PS2 as being the only Simpsons-related videogame that wasn't terrible and/or absurdly difficult.

Mother Yeti:
Duck Tales on the Gameboy was pretty sweet.

I seem to remember The Simpsons Game for the PS2 as being the only Simpsons-related videogame that wasn't terrible and/or absurdly difficult.

I remember a arcade games about the simpsons that was pretty sweet, but hard

Spiderman 2 was pretty sweet. Huge sandbox, at least.

probably simpsons road rage. thats the earlyest one that i can think of thats on the ps2.
the hulk movie game was good, from what i remember.

I would have thought Simpsons Hit and Run would be the "good" PS2 game. A GTA clone, but it was fun, the gameplay wasn't broken and it had plenty of fan service. Thats the only good Simpsons game outside of the arcade game in my book.

hobob:

Mother Yeti:
Duck Tales on the Gameboy was pretty sweet.

I seem to remember The Simpsons Game for the PS2 as being the only Simpsons-related videogame that wasn't terrible and/or absurdly difficult.

I remember a arcade games about the simpsons that was pretty sweet, but hard

It was okay, but unless you had like $40 in quarters you didn't stand a chance in hell of beating it.

my opinion is the game spiderman game i know it sounds rather homosexual but i liked the open world and then jump off really tall buildings and splat like the empire state bulding whheeeeeeeee!!!! SPPPPPLLLLLATTTT!

ignore this post, sorry!

Can't believe you guys haven't mentioned Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay yet. It's a great game, actually better than the movie.

there remaking that for 360 arent they?

The Lord of The Rings games were pretty good too. Solid Co-Op Hack 'n' Slasher.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic didn't suck. Neither did TIE Fighter or X-Wing. I'm sure there's other Star Wars titles that weren't bad either, if I could just sort through jumbled memories. (Oh, Republic Commando was supposed to be good but I didn't give it a try myself.) SW: Battlefront wasn't bad, but it didn't inspire me to buy it after the rental. (Dons asbestos underwear. Man, it itches as much as I remembered.)

I had another title in mind, but alas it's completely slipped away from me courtesy of a phone call. Oh well.

-- Steve

Goldeneye, Riddick... that's about it.

Funny thing about games based on movies is that they have ENORMOUS profit margins, because parents will buy them for their kids no matter how crappy they are, looking only at the "name brand." And kids will play them, because it helps them pretend they are their favorite cartoon characters, even if the game sucks so much that they can't leave the first stage because of a bug. You press JUMP, and Remy from Ratatouille jumps! It's the most awesome thing ever, just seeing him jumping in place when you press the button!

The lower the already miniscule production costs of the game are, the greater the profits become. Only games based on adult-oriented movies like Goldeneye and Riddick can buck this trend, because the parents buy them for themselves, and are far more judgemental an audience than preteens.

Kingdom Hearts bucked this trend, though almost entirely by having no specific movie behind it, just an almagram of Disney classics grafted on to a typical emo JRPG that Squeenix would have turned into Another Freaking Fantasy if they had been denied the license.

The SNES Star Wars trilogy was good, but brutally hard.

Spider-man 2, Goldeneye, KOTOR....that's about it. Oh, and The Simpsons arcade game.

Anton P. Nym:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic didn't suck. Neither did TIE Fighter or X-Wing. I'm sure there's other Star Wars titles that weren't bad either, if I could just sort through jumbled memories. (Oh, Republic Commando was supposed to be good but I didn't give it a try myself.) SW: Battlefront wasn't bad, but it didn't inspire me to buy it after the rental. (Dons asbestos underwear. Man, it itches as much as I remembered.)

I had another title in mind, but alas it's completely slipped away from me courtesy of a phone call. Oh well.

-- Steve

Well, if you count games that never had a specific movie they were based on, but rather set in a similar universe to a movie, you could probably rattle off every video game in the world that didn't break totally new ground. Kingdom Hearts, Star Wars RPGs, some of the Star Wars shooters, tons of "Street Fighter" style fighting games with characters based on some Japanese anime (as long as they didn't suck; I rather liked Ranma 1/2 on the SNES), and so on.

The Punisher on Xbox. Great game.

Spidey II and King Kong are the shining examples, because they broke the mould of licensed games.

Spiderman II had a good sandbox element, and in King Kong, Jack's sections were straight-up survival(maybe survival horror?).

damn i forgot about king kong!

I hated those 6 or 7 foot tall raptors, didn't you? You used to hide and they'd swarm, trapping you.

Escape from Butcher bay really was great, it was like splinter cell stealth and semi-halflify combat put together, and it was even normal mapped, which is great considering the game was from '04. 007 nightfire was really great as well, but then again it wasn't from a movie anyway. Spiderman 2 was great, and the spongebob movie game was almost ok, whoch shocked me. And of course there's Star Wars: Empire at War.

side note: People wonder why I hate green day, but when mr american idiot avatar here has four posts on one short thread with at least twenty grammar mistakes, I really cant help it.

steveo_justice:
... semi-halflify combat ...

What's semi-half-life? Wouldn't that be quarter-life or something?

Yes, that was meant to be a joke.

lol i sadly i found that funnier than it was!

Imperial Avenger:
The Punisher on Xbox. Great game.

Was that spawned for the film or the comic?

I'd have to say Goldeneye as well. It was by far my favourite fps on the N64

Melaisis:
Spiderman 2 was pretty sweet. Huge sandbox, at least.

Yeh, I'll have to agree. I mean, grappling a guy and throwing him into the ocean never gets old...

the punisher game was fromthe film!

DGKT93:
damn i forgot about king kong!

the key word was games that DON'T suck.
I'm going with the matrix: PON. I thought it was surprisingly good.

conqueror Kenny:
I'm going with the matrix: PON. I thought it was surprisingly good.

The keyword is games that DON'T suck.

Anton P. Nym:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic didn't suck. Neither did TIE Fighter or X-Wing. I'm sure there's other Star Wars titles that weren't bad either, if I could just sort through jumbled memories. (Oh, Republic Commando was supposed to be good but I didn't give it a try myself.) SW: Battlefront wasn't bad, but it didn't inspire me to buy it after the rental.

I had another title in mind, but alas it's completely slipped away from me courtesy of a phone call. Oh well.

-- Steve

Republic Commando was sweet. The thing with Star Wars is that they don't all just follow the movies exactly - there's a whole giant expanded universe to play with. Hence we have Knights of the Old Republic. And, technically, they fit into this topic, since it's "games SPAWNED from films". But if you want a Star Wars game that didn't suck, and still followed the movies? Check out Lego Star Wars. I loved that. Obviously, if you're a powergamer, you're going to be disappointed by the difficulty, but it's great for younger gamers, or people who just want to mess around for a bit.