[General Discussion] Best Movie Based Game You Have Played

I really liked Star Wars Episode 1: Podracer.

At the time of it coming out, I hadn't played a game that actually got across a great sense of speed, and the whole upgrading and boost system worked well. I still think it was the only good thing to come out of that movie.

Also, once you unlock it, you can light other people on fire with the last pod's taunt. It wasn't just a minor singe, or like throwing hot strips of bacon at them, it was a full-fledged explosion. But by that point you've already beaten the entire game...

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I would say my favorite movie based game is Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. Fun all around. Second is a more accurate movie based game, King Kong. I rented it and even though some parts got old after a while and it was very linear, that the tension just never let up.

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I updated my list (first post in thread) with the 360 version of The Godfather. I put the game at number four. I got the game based on Alias last week for the XBOX. I know Alias is a TV show and not a movie, but I've decided to include games based on TV shows. I'll put Alias on the list when I'm done playing it. I'm going to try to find a copy of Dark Angel for the XBOX.

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I was wondering and not sure but..

Can i put FInal Fantasy VII down on this list?
Technically the movie is a continuation of the game but not an actual remake of the game...Then again so is Resident Evil and that movie was horrible so I decided NOT to put that down

I was speaking idiomatically.

No, it's movie made into a game, not game made into a movie. Game into a movie would be a whole different topic.

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I was a big fan of the Game Gear version of Jurassic Park, it followed the movie really well. Especially the part where you dodge tornados by ducking underneath them and the levels where you'd have to run faster than the car along a Green Hill Zone style ground in order to shoot rocks and dinosaurs that would appear out of nowhere while making sure to collect floating cans of petrol.

I remember that part in the movie it was so great. ^____^

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ALADDIN. BEST MOVIE BASED GAME BEFORE GOLDENEYE.

Seriously, it was one of the best games on the Megadri- I mean, Genesis. The second level was always my favorite (desert level) along with the bonus levels where you had to control Apu and dodge falling pots out of windows. Good times.



HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE THIS? It had awesome sound effects, too.

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The two KOTOR games are amongst my favourite games of all time and the Lego Star Wars games are incredible too.

I have to say though, I really enjoyed Enter the Matrix. It wasn't the best game ever by any means but it was a lot of fun running up walls into groups of SWAT guys and beating them to death with their own rifles in slow motion. Sadly the sinping sections were really poorly executed which made finishing the game more frustrating than fun. I gave up at Ghost's sniping section in the power plant.

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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.

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Originally Posted by ashaman

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.

I personally liked the SNES Aladdin more though they were both excellent.

Star Wars definitely has way too many games to be included here. Rebel Assault was uber-awesome though.

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

I was a big fan of the Game Gear version of Jurassic Park, it followed the movie really well. Especially the part where you dodge tornados by ducking underneath them and the levels where you'd have to run faster than the car along a Green Hill Zone style ground in order to shoot rocks and dinosaurs that would appear out of nowhere while making sure to collect floating cans of petrol.

I remember that part in the movie it was so great. ^____^

I remember this game pretty well too, as the Game Gear was my first system I must have beaten this game +10 times. It was great that it could be beaten in like an hour.

Other than the obvious ones, the Lord of the Rings beat-em ups by EA (Two Towers and ROTK) were pretty good.

As for a very obscure title, Home Alone on game gear. The game looks like dirt, but actually had some good game play for its time (though has aged horribly imo). You could plan traps and make weapons, which was really cool to me at the time.

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The Lion King for SNES (was it also for Genesis? Probably) was a pretty good one. I liked it better than Aladdin.

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Star Wars Episode I: Racer

That was really the only movie based game I remember playing, aside from the letdown that was X-Men 3 game (I swear, it would have been a lot better if they just cut the Wolverine missions). Anyway, podracing reminded me of F-Zero + diverse track/environments. The track designs were awsome, even though some of them can get really hard (Mos Eisley, full track version comes to mind). It's also nice that, for once, you get to repair your craft on the fly.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by speculative

I liked the Star Wars games for SNES.

So did I, even though I never owned them. A friend of mine had them and I would always be going round to play on them. I also quite liked the NES Star Wars game as well. Again, I never owned this but a cousin of mine had it and lent it to me for a couple of months. T'was good fun back then, not too sure what I'd think of it now though.

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Originally Posted by Newbie1234

I personally liked the SNES Aladdin more though they were both excellent.

I don't see how that is possible. I just played the SNES Aladdin and I can confirm it sucks cocks.

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My top 5 games based on movies. Not surprisingly, all five games are from the same company. LucasArts has a knack with making excellent movie-to-game conversions.


Dark Forces, one of the best FPS' ever. It actually had a story line, excellent voice acting as always, and it was set in the Star Wars universe. The only bad part was that you couldn't use light sabers.


Star Wars Episode 1: Racer, an excellent racing game with uber-fast speed, great music, and lots of awesome locales. Sure, episodes 1-3 sucked, but who cares. This game rocks.


Tie Fighter Collector's CD-ROM, one of the best games ever to grace the PC, if not the best. Highly recommended.


Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb. The combat system used in this game is one of the best things about it. Definitely captures the Indy magic like in the movies.


Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis, a definite classic in the days of point-and-click adventures, with great characters, three different paths to the end, and a good score.

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Back to the Future for the NES...Great game actually. It was a major challenge for me, but one of those where I can really get "in the zone". Have never beaten it though...

And both SNES and Genesis Aladdin were some of the better platformers of their time.

And while it is hardly my "favorite" movie-based game (though, sadly, it probably is close), I do enjoy ET for the Atari 2600 and stand by my comments that people who honestly believe it was responsible for any kind of video game crash have no idea what they're talking about.*

Note: NOT directed at orion, who mentioned this earlier in the thread...I was talking more in general (mainstream press, general perception, etc.).

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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.

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Someone can delete this. I didn't see how OLD the post I was quoting was.

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Originally Posted by Elixir

I don't see how that is possible. I just played the SNES Aladdin and I can confirm it sucks cocks.

Well the main reason is probably because I owned an SNES and only played the Genesis one on emulators. It was just more colorful and I loved the Genie stage.

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Allright, of course that i love mostly all games that... well... everybody loves? (specially Goldeneye) but also, True Lies was a really good game on SNES, it was really underrated in those years.

Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire its another title that i like a lot, i know that the replay value of the game isnt too high but it was a very well made it, fresh and interesting title in the first n64 era.

I was speaking idiomatically.

There have been some good movie to games.... The usual Goldeneye, and Star Wars for SNES. Those are the only real Star Wars games I have played as well. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade was a cool game for SNES (or was it NES?) but I had a hard time spelling the name of Jesus... (I think it was supposed to be an I? Not a J...?)

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I don't know about all the new movie-based games that are out right now, since I've never played any...but I do know that "Batman" for the NES was nicely done even though it contained a few characters here and there that didn't appear in the movie.

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KoTOR One is the top followed by KOTOR two. Aladdin has to be one of the funnest traditional adventure games made. Tie Fighter up till Freespace Two was the best space sim period in my mind so it is up their also.

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Time Cop. Oh you said best! KOTOR, Chronicles of Riddick and Goldeneye are my favorites. Great games.

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Quite a few good calls here; I think I'll toss in a couple more:

• Alien^3 (SNES) - not 100% faithful to the movie, of course, but still a good game. Interestingly, few of the missions in the game have 'kill X' as a primary goal - for most of the game you'll be rescuing people or repairing things... but fear not, there're plenty of xenomorphs you'll have to kill in order to do these things in peace.
• Scarface: The World is Yours - the game which asks 'what if Tony Montana survived Sosa's kill team?' In addition to capturing the spirit of the movie it is based on very well, it brings to the sandbox several welcome additions - big example: Everything or Nothing-style targeting which works when you're firing from a vehicle as well as on foot.

And I can't be the only person who thinks we're long overdue for a new X-Wing/TIE Fighter game. Bonus points for using the Freespace 2 engine...

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