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I haven't played many movie-based games since the 16-bit era so my picks are a little outdated.
1. Jurassic Park: The Lost World (PS1) Extremely addicting game where you can play as a compy, raptor, T-rex, or boring old humans. I loved the different options you had with each dinosaur. With the T-Rex you could choose to eat someone and then just toss him, or just sit there and roar and scare everyone away. From what I've seen, movie games of today probably include much more depth and immersion, but being released a decade ago this game was way ahead of its time. The absolute best part of it was the soundtrack. It was fully orcherstrated, no synth, a redbook audio, and composed by an unknown named Michael Giachinno who would later go on to compose for the Medal of Honor games, Alias, Lost, and The Incredibles, and is now considered a full-blown movie composer. I still listen to this soundtrack on an almost daily basis (my computer sound scheme is based it). 2. Aladdin (Genesis): All the reasons mentioned in posts above. That's the extent of my positive movie game experiences. I loved many of the Star Wars games (Rebel Assault) but those almost require a category all to themselves. The only other movie games that I can remember playing are Friday the 13th, Gremlins II, and Predator (all NES) and I don't have any positive memories of them. Most amazing jew boots |
Oh yea, Back to the Future was fun but hard as hell. I could never beat those later "soda shop" levels where you had to throw drinks at enemies.
Two more games to my list: Terminator CD Sega CD: Came out during a time when T2 the Arcade Game was all the rage and yet was based on the first movie. Don't remember too much about the game other than the walk cycles were cool (I think the game ran at 60 fps so the animations ran smoother than anything I had seen). It was an okay shooter/platformer, but the soundtrack was awesome. Like Aladdin, this is another Tommy Tallarico soundtrack and I loved it all the way. When other games only had 16-bit midi sound, this Sega CD game used live rock tracks which blew the Sega midi sounds away. Destinationz Unknown is still one of my favorite songs of all time. Cliffhanger (Sega CD): A rather common fighter in the vain of Final Fight (but with snow!). The snow boarding levels were different and added a little variety, and the FMVs from the movie were standard fare for Sega CD games at the time. But, once again, the soundtrack is what made this game rock. They used the full movie symphonic soundtrack which was amazing considering everything else at the time was midi sound. Best of all, I bought this game for $2.00 and it had the redbook audio of the entire movie soundtrack so I saved the $13 I would have spent on buying the movie OST (which I ended up buying anyways). Finally, does Kingdom Hearts 1,2 count in this discussion? Considering each level pretty much recreates an entire movie plot, I would think they would fit in. If so, they take my top spots. ![]() There's nowhere I can't reach.
Last edited by ashaman; Oct 7, 2006 at 01:36 AM.
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