Many films debuted over the Christmas Day weekend including the long in development video
game movie adaption Assassin's Creed by 20th Century Fox and Ubisoft.
Not exact matches
Is this a
movie a faithful
adaption that fans of the franchise will love, or is this yet another example of a bad video
game movie.
Every once in a while a big screen
movie gets a
game adaption, but is The Mummy Demastered yet another poor cash cow or something more?
Board -
game adaptions such as «Ouija» have had a checkered history at the box office, with the big - budget «Battleship» — the last Hasbro
game turned into a
movie — famously flopping in 2012.
Neil Druckmann was not happy with Uncharted
movie direct
adaption to the
game, and he made it clear to everyone.
Final results of these
movies vary big time, some become lame efforts, where we think it was not right in the first place to go for the
movie adaption, but some on the contrary and to our surprise turn out to be the best examples of how a video
game should transform into a
movie.
With talk of Assassin's Creed and Uncharted
adaptions taking up the bulk of 2011's
game - to - film speculation, many have forgotten that it wasn't so long ago that Irrational Games» BioShock was heavily rumored for the
movie treatment.
Video
game adaptions of
movies don't have a stellar track record, so smartly developer Avalanche have opted to craft a
game that takes place sometime before Fury Road rather than trying to follow or replicate the events of the film, granting them the freedom to expand Mark Miller's postapocalyptic Australia a little bit more while escaping some of the stigma that comes with being based on a series of
movies.
We have no idea exactly what their planning for the
movie adaption, but we do feel this has potential of being one of the best video
games being remade for the silver screen.
So, when given the chance to review THQ's
adaption of the latest cinematic offering from Pixar, Wall - E, the first thing I did was toddle off to my local cinema to catch the
movie ahead of playing the
game.
One of the few, if only, good
game to
movie adaptions.
Neil Druckmann, creator of The Last of Us has confirmed that the upcoming
movie will be an
adaption of the
game, rather than a spin off.
On this episode, Judge Greg is joined by Tony from No Time for Time Travel as they take on 1995's Action Adventure
movie adaption of the video
game: Mortal Kombat!
On the topic of
games to
movies, one country that seems to be quite adept at this
adaption is Japan.