The best movie based games you have ever played

[Flygon]

Eh, the topic title demand I don't make an explanation.

Anyway, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the Game Boy Color caught me VERY by surprise, in simply the sheer work thats been done into it. The humor. The fact that it has some of the smoothest animation I've ever seen in an 8-bit game, combined with huge sprite sizes (Excepted of an RPG, but play the game to get what I mean).

But yeah, long story short, it has 4 megabytes of data and takes it by the neck to make a great game.:daze:

Whats your favorite movie based game?

[Tanegashima]

Jurassic Park: Genesis
Batman: Genesis
Street Fighter the Movie: The Game for Sega Saturn (I'm only kidding, I just think the title is hilarious.)

[Aarzak]

"Surf Ninjas". *wonders who gets the reference*

[MrMatthews]

Well, Goldeneye obviously . . .

Also TMNT for GBA is quite good

Alien 3 for Genesis

Super Star Wars on the SNES

Does Rogue Squadron for the GameCube count? It should.

[Segs]

Goldeneye on the 64

Spiderman 2 on the PS2

[Metal_Sonic]

Lately? the Bourne game.

[FoxHound]

Goldeneye is number one, and Batman Returns for SNES is just as good

[Anthall]

My best movie-based games are:

Golden-Eye (N64)
Terminator (Megadrive)
Indiana Jones: Greatest Adventures (SNES, actually based on three movies)

[Youngie]

Where the heck is Blade Runner (PC)? Ace game.

IIRC there was some old Rambo games too.

Also Mortal Kombat though that was a game before being a film (and the film was bad to say the least). Same goes for Street Fighter (with Kylie & Jean Claude Van Damme)

[The Sports Guy]

Aladdin, T2: The Arcade Game, there are certainly more, but I have to go to class. Someone stir up my memory while I am gone.

[AD2101]

No love for Chronicles of Riddick for the Xbox? I'm kinda playing through it right now its certainly better than the movie, although I'm not sure if it really follows the film(I tried to purge that movie from my mind).Of course movie based games usually aren't very good but I'd say that and obviously Goldeneye, at least back in the day, topped the actual film releases.

[Casselfornia]

Aladdin on Gen! Never played such a great licensed game after a movie! Wait...maybe also Jurassic Park on Master System.

[j_factor]

Small Soldiers for Playstation.

[InternalPrimate]

Aladdin on Gen! Never played such a great licensed game after a movie! Wait...maybe also Jurassic Park on Master System.

Great minds think alike :D

Goldeneye, Lion King, and Rogue Leader II are also good choices.

[Casselfornia]

Great minds think alike :D

Goldeneye

Damn, your right! :)
And I forgot that Goldeneye - I remember we rented it when it came out...every weekend: " Daddy...come on, lets drive to the video store and rent it" xD

Later my grandma bought it for my little brother at the video store. She spent about 210 $ which was exactly 180 DM xD

And today the kids complain about spending 60 or 70 € for a new 360 or PS3 Game.

But Goldeneye was a real perfect movie port. You were really sucked into the game - YOU felt like 007. ;)

[ninjabearhug]

Goldeneye kicks ass :)

I also have fond memories of the T2 judgement day cart for the C64. I didn't have a console at the time so remember been blown away by the graphics compared to the tape games i had.

[Youngie]

Now that we've had the best movie based games...

Here's some of the worst ones:

Friday The 13th (ZX Spectrum)
Rocky Horror Show (ZX Spectrum)
Monty Python & The Holy Grail (PC)

[nissling]

Goldeneye truly is the best N64-game, which dosen't say much. It's a really great game but I've played it so maaaaany times that I'm tired of it.

But I love Moonwalker on the Sega Genesis, for some reason.

[Hiarcs]

Jurassic Park.

[Pulstar]

Die Hard Trilogy
Blade Runner
Aladdin/Jungle Book/Lion King (same game!)
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
SkyNET
Muppet Treasure Island
The Warriors
The Thing
The Goonies (MSX)
Alien vs Predator (all except the last one)
The Simpsons Arcade
King Kong
Sword of the Berserk
TRON 2.0
Star Trek: TNG---A Final Unity
The X-Files: Resist or Serve
Toy Story
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Speed Racer: The Game (DS)
Transformers (2003 game)
The Godfather
TMNT: Hyperstone Heist
Scarface: The World is Yours
007: Everything or Nothing
The Punisher (was this based on the first movie?)
Robocop vs Terminator
WarGames
The Addams Family Values
Batman Returns (SNES)


Movies I would like made into videogames
Blade Runner (WRPG)
Akira
The Matrix
Cube
Run Lola Run
Total Recall
Patlabor
Battle Royale
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
28 Days Later
Back to The Future
Escape From New York
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Bad Lieutenant
District 9
The Dirty Dozen
Ronin
Mad Max (like, dude, totally! haha)

[M4R14NO94]

Die Hard Trilogy
Aladdin/Jungle Book/Lion King (same game!)
Ghostbusters: The Video Game
The Warriors
Alien vs Predator (all except the last one)
The Simpsons Arcade
TRON 2.0
Toy Story
The Godfather
TMNT: Hyperstone Heist
Scarface: The World is Yours
007: Everything or Nothing
The Punisher (was this based on the first movie?)
Robocop vs Terminator


All awesome choices. Here are mine (note: some of them will also be games based on cartoons/TV shows):

Ghostbusters (Genesis)
Alien 3 (Genesis)
RoboCop 2 (Arcade)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (both the Genesis and arcade versions)
Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition
Navy Seals (Game Boy)
RoboCop (Game Boy)
Star Wars Battlefront 2
LEGO Star Wars 2
LEGO Indiana Jones
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Inspector Gadget: Advance Mission
Muppet Pinball Mayhem
Thunderbirds: International Rescue
Aladdin (Genesis)
Asterix & Obelix (SNES/GBA)
Asterix & Obelix: XXL (GBA)
Demolition Man (Genesis)
The Lawnmower Man (Genesis/SNES)
The Terminator (Genesis)
T2: The Arcade Game
Terminator 3: Redemption
True Lies
Daffy Duck in Hollywood
The Fairly OddParents: Shadow Showdown (PS2)
Jackass: The Game (PS2)
Toy Story Racer
Muppet RaceMania

[Zoltor]

This is easy, Willow on the NES, It's a very good Action/RPG, and 007 for N64(if that counts).


The only other good movie based game out there, was Batman for the NES.

[Hiarcs]

This is easy, Willow on the NES, It's a very good Action/RPG, and 007 for N64(if that counts).


The only other good movie based game out there, was Batman for the NES.

I havent tried Willow.

[Zoltor]

I havent tried Willow.

You should give it a try(for a movie based game on the NES, It's relatively accurate to the movie as well, and while It's not as good as Crystalis or Secret of Mana, It's still one of the better Action/RPGs). The only thing that sucks, is It's Password based, but as long as you are using a top loader, that's not a big problem.

[Waterfaller]

The Super Star Wars trilogy on the SNES, please.

[Olls]

Movies I would like made into videogames
Blade Runner (WRPG)
Akira
The Matrix
Cube
Run Lola Run
Total Recall
Patlabor
Battle Royale
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
28 Days Later
Back to The Future
Escape From New York
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Bad Lieutenant
District 9
The Dirty Dozen
Ronin
Mad Max (like, dude, totally! haha)

There are games based on all of these movies. Well, the ones in bold anyway.

[Pulstar]

I know, but none of them were really good. Except BR of course, but I want another game akin to the 16-bit Shadowrun.

BttF for instance. It can be done like a small open world game with time-travel mechanics similar to Shadow of Destiny (ie you change something in the past and it affects the future etc). As for Patlabor we can always use low-grade mecha sims, seeing that the market is saturated with super-mechas from 2000 years in the future.

The recent Ghostbusters is a great example of how to do classic movies justice. Any word about that Heat game?

[M4R14NO94]

A good Patlabor game would be a dream for me, because the SNES game was horrendous

[kool kitty89]

Most definitely one of the various Star Wars games.

You've got the the simple Atari Classics (and the awesome vector arcade games for SW and ESB), the NES (and SMS/GG) games, Super Star Wars games, X-Wing Series, Star Wars Arcade and Trilogy Arcade, Dark Forces, Shadows of the Empire, Battlefront, Rogue Squadron (plus II and III), Battle for Naboo, Star Wars Starfighter, Jedi Starfighter, KoTR, etc, etc.

I'd probably have to go with X-Wing, but maybe Tie Fighter. (some consider X-Wing vs Tie Fighter with BoP expansion to be the best of the Series though)
The DOS CD-ROM version, of course, improved over the floppy original, but not hacked up like the win9x re-release.

However, a lot of the SW games are more expanded universe, not direct conversions of the Films, so if you go by a stricter definition, it's more limited. (X-Wing has a lot of expanded story aspects, bt generally follows events leading up to and through the original Film, and even X-Wing alliance concludes with the battle of Endor, though most is an expanded universe plot)



I know, but none of them were really good. Except BR of course, but I want another game akin to the 16-bit Shadowrun.
There were 2 Blade Runner games, the 1985 home computer game and the 1997 PC game.



The recent Ghostbusters is a great example of how to do classic movies justice. Any word about that Heat game?
The HAL developed New Ghostbusters II and Genesis Ghostbusters games were pretty good though. (Activision prevented the former from getting a US release though)

[M4R14NO94]

The HAL developed New Ghostbusters II and Genesis Ghostbusters games were pretty good though. (Activision prevented the former from getting a US release though)

And US NES owners got Imagineering's poor Ghostbusters II. At least Activision released the Game Boy version in the US

[Hiarcs]

You should give it a try(for a movie based game on the NES, It's relatively accurate to the movie as well, and while It's not as good as Crystalis or Secret of Mana, It's still one of the better Action/RPGs). The only thing that sucks, is It's Password based, but as long as you are using a top loader, that's not a big problem.

I will give it a try.