How many movie tie-in games have you played that were good?

[Queasy]

I just rented James Cameron's Avatar: The Game so I can review it and see if it breaks the string of bad movie tie-in games (I'm looking at you Transformers and GI Joe) and it had me thinking about what was the last good movie tie-in game that I played. Had to be Kung Fu Panda for the 360. It was a surprisingly good brawler with enough variety in play to keep things interesting along with some decent multiplayer mini-games. It is still one of my kids favorite games. The only decent Pixar movie game I've played is the original Cars game. The rest have been trash.

 

[mmntech]

Any of the Starwars games on NES/SNES/Gameboy. Granted they had more time to work on them.

X-Men Origins Wolverine wasn't too bad. Similar to God of War. I just played the demo though but from what I saw, the game was better than the movie.

 

[AstroManLuca]

That's a good one. Hmm...







Hmm.....







I guess Riddick was pretty good.

 

[Queasy]

X-Men Origins Wolverine wasn't too bad. Similar to God of War. I just played the demo though but from what I saw, the game was better than the movie.

I forgot about that one. I just played the demo as well but it played very well for a movie tie-in.

 

[gorcorps]

Ghostbusters was the last I played fully that was any good. Played the demo for Wolverine, and I think I'd like the game MUCH more than I liked the movie. There were a couple LOTR games put out by EA that weren't bad on the PS2. Riddick is the obvious one.

 

[Rage187]

Iron Man wasn't horrible.

 

[Xellos2099]

Lord of the Ring: Conquest is pretty darn good.

 

[purbeast0]

other than some mentioned here, i have a good old one.

the jurassic park game on Genesis was freaking awesome!

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Goldeneye is the only one that I've played personally, although I could easily see Ghostbusters making the list if I bought it.

 

[tk149]

Aliens on the Apple 2. Yeah...

 

[cyphilis]

I really liked Wolverine, however I thought the going back and forth between past and present got really old. About the time I got used to playing as one wolverine, it would throw you back in the damn jungle and vice versa. The demo pretty much showed what you do on that game. Again, good game, but kind of sloppily followed the movie. A good one to rent, and conquer on a weekend.

Ghostbusters was fun for half an hour, then it was the same ole same ole. Also a nice renter, but probably not a buy it kinda game.

I agree Kung Fu Panda was fun and kind of a surprise for me. I found myself having fun, but it was also challenging. I have recently went back to that one to try and get more achievements, but found it getting to hard to do every level perfect.

 

[ivan2]

lego starwars!

 

[bucwylde23]

X-men Origins Wolverine was a lot of fun.

Ghostbusters was fun, worth a rent.

I also agree that LOTR: Conquest was a lot of fun, I liked that game a lot.

I remember playing a Jurassic park game like purbeast was talking about but not on genesis. It's been so long but I do remember having a lot of fun playing it.

 

[Kabob]

The first Riddick game was good.

If you can say that the overall darker tone and resurgence of Arkham Asylum parallels with the new movies I'd suppose most people would say the new Batman game...but it's such a big franchise I guess you can't say it's movie based.

 

[AstroManLuca]

The first Riddick game was good.

If you can say that the overall darker tone and resurgence of Arkham Asylum parallels with the new movies I'd suppose most people would say the new Batman game...but it's such a big franchise I guess you can't say it's movie based.

That's just the thing. Arkham Asylum was specifically NOT based on one of the movies. If there was a game based on the movie The Dark Knight, I bet it wouldn't be nearly as good because it would be rushed by developers under heavy time pressure. The same goes for a whole lot of comic book games. The Marvel Ultimate Alliance games are both pretty good, and both feature a lot of characters that have also appeared in movies, but they are definitely based on the comics. Iron Man, on the other hand, was a movie game, and it was a rental at best.

I don't remember who exactly pointed this out (maybe it was a Cracked article), but it seems that the best movie games are the ones that come out much later than the movie. Ghostbusters and Riddick are two good examples, but there are plenty more. The problems come up when the marketing department is cracking the whip on the game developers, because they don't understand that video games are separate creative endeavors from movies rather than simple promotional materials that can be cranked out in a few months.

 

[purbeast0]

I remember playing a Jurassic park game like purbeast was talking about but not on genesis. It's been so long but I do remember having a lot of fun playing it.

the one on SNES was a top down view. it wasn't nearly as good as the Genesis one which was a side view platformer/adventure type game.

another game on genesis that was BADASS, while not really based on a game but more of a comic, is the X-Men game. that was one of the greatest genesis games.

 

[zerocool84]

I think the only good games that have been based on movies are the ones that don't follow the movie at all and do their own thing but just have the same name as the movie. Chronicles of Riddick was a great game but had extremely small ties to the actual movies except for a few characters.

 

[mmntech]

Iron Man wasn't horrible.

You're kidding right? "moychendising! We put the picture's name on everything!"

The quintessential one is probably GoldenEye. I also just remembered the Disney games that used to be on the SNES/Genesis. Aladdin was a great game, probably only topped by The Lion King. Unfortunaely Virgin Games is now defunct.
Duck Tails as well, even though it was a TV show I think we can still include it. A lot of people consider it one of the greatest NES games ever made if not one of the greatest period.

Lego Star Wars/Lego Indy. I didn't really enjoy them myself but I can see why people do.

 

[Queasy]

Played a couple of hours of Avatar: The Game so far. I'll give it points for not being full of immediate and obvious suckage. Not really feeling a positive or negative vibe to this point but it seems like it is trying to be Mass Effect lite with the third-person way off the shoulder view and some very very very light RPG elements.

 

[digiram]

the one on SNES was a top down view. it wasn't nearly as good as the Genesis one which was a side view platformer/adventure type game.

another game on genesis that was BADASS, while not really based on a game but more of a comic, is the X-Men game. that was one of the greatest genesis games.

Yap..that was a classic.

 

[JDub02]

Goldeneye on N64 .. that's the only one I can think of.

 

[mchammer187]

I remember Aladdin and the Lion King for genesis to be pretty good

Goldeneye was great

 

[purbeast0]

wow, aladdin on genesis was awesome! completely forgot about that, and it followed the story nicely as well.

 

[Crizza]

I liked The Two Towers and Return of the King on PS2. Hack 'n' slash goodness from Snowblind.

 

[Beev]

Spiderman 2 was very good.