Daily Q: Do you play movie games?
Category: Features, Posted: 05/02/2008 at 10:06AM CDT by Creighton DeSimone, Staff Writer
It is Friday, May 2nd and that means it's the first summer movie blockbuster weekend. And where there are summer movie blockbusters, there are movie tie-in games. It is on this day that the Iron Man movie game is released, so I thought that should be the subject of our Daily Q.
Do you play movie games? Why?
As a rule I stay away. I haven't played a direct movie tie-in game since the Toy Story 2 game on the PS1, but people seem to buy these things by the truckload. The Cars game was the best selling game of 2006. Yeah, it was on a whopping 12 platforms but that's still pretty impressive.
The problem we have as gamers is picking the crappy titles and staying as far away as possible. The most dangerous titles are the movie tie-ins. Ever since I played Super Star Wars on the SNES I have been wary of movie games. The part where you have to use Luke's speeder to run over Jawas was just weird.
The Iron Man game is tempting, as were the Spider-Man games before it. I just have to hold true to my principles. But that doesn't mean you have to.
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I generally stay away from movie games. On the other hand, sometimes they are ok. Actually, I really look at each game individually. If it seems to suck, I'm not really going to get into it. If it seems awesome, sign me up.
No.
It depends, batman begins was ok, Spiderman 2 got it right, 3 somehow screwed it up, and superman, wow, what a waste of time.
No.
No, I don't remember that last movie game I played.....Batman Returns for SNES maybe....
It's easy to forget it was a movie game: GoldenEye.
So... yes - the only one I've bought.
Generally, I avoid movie games as though they were the plague. Some of them might as well be after all...
To be fair I'm not sure if this counts as a movie game, but Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is one of my top five games. They did it right for that game, because they didn't try to make it about the events of the movie.
Yea sure some of the, like goldeneye and some other bond ones, also i think ill get iron man, its more then just movie based so it could be good
Most Star Wars games are pretty good, with the exception of the direct movie tie-ins. Also, Battle for Middle Earth II was a lot of fun.