This is a plague that has been haunting the video game industry for over 25 years: Great movies being made into mediocre games. With the exeption of Spider-Man 2 (PS2), Batman Returns (SNES), and a few others, the whole idea of games based on movies just never seems to work. Look at the most recent one: Iron Man for example. It was an awesome movie, so Marvel decides to make it into a game. What do you get? A rushed game made on 5 systems with so many basic problems such as unresponsive controls and bad graphics that you don't even want to look at it. I know that these great movies can be made into great games, but why doesn't it ever click?
This whole Great Movie-Terrible game formula dates back to 1982 when Atari Made E.T on the Atari 2600. They wanted it in time for the holiday season, so they gave the developers 5 weeks (yes, as in 35 days) to make the game. Atari had anticipated Huge sales, so they made a bunch of copies. What happened? One of the Biggest disasters in video game history. And all the extra copies that Atari had of the game is what led to the E.T "incident" in 1983.
But did the game industry learn from that mistake? Apparently not, because they've been following virtually the same pattern for 25 years. Why do you think that 90% of games based on movies fall short of their true potential?
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
i agree, but its mainly because the game makers are on a deadline (look how rushed and unfinished enter the matrix was) to match the movie release date, and they have to stick to the story. Lord of the Rings was great as a RTS because it didnt have to stick to the story in the films.
Oh yeah, Goldeneye 64 was brilliant.
I'll try the Bourne game demo tonight to see if the trend continues.
When you take a story from a movie, and apply it to a game, most of the time, it just doesn't work. Lets say, this movie has 5 action scenes.. that's 5 stages, so you make boring areas into stages, which end up being pointless and boring. Or, better yet, make up things that never happened in the movie. And if the movie was bad enough it'd be too hard to do that, totally make up a story of what happened after the movie, or before.
The same thing happens when applying a game story to a movie.
The movies today are garbage. You take garbage and make it into a game, you get even more GARBAGE!! Movies are the same, you have a bad sequel to a movie that came out in the 80's, Movies made out of books, or worse yet, some baby's comic book.
So I stopped with the movies to become the fuhrer of california!!
There hasn't been anything original in movies since my smash hit classic JINGLE ALL THE WAY!!!!!!