Sentences with phrase «movie licensed games»

Is it possible that this will lead to a trend for more good movie licensed games?

The Amazing Spider - Man may not only go down as one of the best Spider - Man games but one of the better movie licensed games out there because it doesn't feel like a movie game.

Also, most movie licensed games end up being a disaster, such as the Ironman games, the Thor game from 2011, and the Terminator Salvation game from 2009.

It may look like a typical movie licensed game, but Cars 3 seems like the real deal.

Gamasutra has done some research through Nielsen on the subject, and found movie license games are at the top of «online buzz» and intent to purchase list.

Today, the studio is probably best known for its work on the horror action series Dead Space, but it also worked on Dante's Inferno, and a bunch of pretty good movie license games.

This is one of better movie license games and I highly Suggest you buy this game.

While I must say that with this movie licensed game, Beenox has stepped it up a notch and maybe brought us one of the best Spider - Man games so far.

Wedge's Pick: Know how movie license games usually suck really hard?

Who knew that one of SEGA's own movie license games would be getting rave reviews?

Not exact matches

With combat that is just easy enough to engage the younger crowd, borrowed elements that keep the game from being boring, and a storyline that the kids already love, Eragon on the DS makes for an adequate movie - licensed RPG - lite for adventuring tweens everywhere.

This exotic pedigree gives Torrente the game an air of intrigue that eclipses the final product, which turns out to be a typically rotten movie - licensed budget shooter.

This may be the first time in video game history that a licensed DS title far exceeds the movie it's based on.

It is the very definition of an average game, and does nothing to pay homage to the original movie, merely taking up six times the shelf space it should and damning any of the current platforms to yet another throwaway licensed game that simply wasn't needed.

Over the Hedge has exactly what you'd expect the typical movie - licensed video game to have: unoriginal, repetitive gameplay that's obviously cashing in on a movie which had much more work put into it.

Ultimately, Afro falls into the same pitfalls as almost every other game based on a movie / television license: It presents an edited down version of a story that's familiar to fans but indecipherable to newcomers, wrapped up in a generic game housing.

Amazing Spider - Man 2 does little to dispel the negative reputation that licensed video games have garnered over the years, coming across like a project that was kicked out of the studio doors to coincide with the movie's release.

The current rash of movies based on toys, or comic books, or video games, or fairy tales, exists to canonize the narrative building blocks of childhood, to provide frameworks for all your stories about Spider - Man or Megatron or Snow White, and then to sell you specially licensed toys so you can keep playing those stories out.

Toy Story 3: The Video Game is, quite simply, one of the best movie - licensed video games to be released.

In the Smithsonian Magazine, Ted Turner is quoted as saying, 0x201CWe are making a war movie to try and get people not to like war.0 x201D At the same time an officially licensed PC game of Gods and Generals is being released where the player assumes the role of a company captain on the front lines as a first player shooter.

Calum Petrie reviews The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game... The LEGO games have been around for a good few years now, often taking on a comical and lighthearted approach to the source material and its licensed properties.

Sure this movie may have been popular in the late 70's and the Early 80's but can they possibly have a big enough fan base to turn this movie license into a great game?

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Inceptor is an upcoming board game that is, in everything except name (because that involves licensing), based on Chris Nolan's movie Inception.

Battle hardened gamers will know that the vast majority of «80s and «90s movie tie - ins were terrible — it was a time when publishers could always bank on licensed software to turn a profit, even if the game itself was an abomination.

It looks like developer Avalanche Studios has decided that a movie tie - in title doesn't need to be just some quick play that only appeals to the fans of the movie, it can be much, much more, a competent game in its own right even without the license.

The titles that weren't based on films haven't been so bad but some of the movie - licensed Spider - Man games, such as Spider - Man and Spider - Man 2, have been dire.

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., March 26, 2018 — Licensed books feature popular characters from movies, TV, games, toys, and lifestyle brands, where the publisher has paid the original intellectual property owner for the right to publish the character or property in book form.

Aside from video games, Ape Entertainment has also been developing a variety of licensing agreements with animation and movie studios, like DreamWorks Animation, an experience that Hedgecock says has really helped the publisher in developing its game - based offerings.

At the same time, this is really, really seriously and thoughtfully designed to allow people who are on the fringes of comics or not in comics at all — who are connected to the animation, or the movies, TV shows, video games — to connect to comics; not only licensed comics for those exact things, but this really amazing, great world of related content.

Included in this license bonanza was both the manga and light novel series of Log Horizon and The Devil is a Part - Timer, the light novel series No Game No Life, Pandora Hearts Caucus Race, and the manga version of the Disney movie Big Hero 6.

Licensed books feature popular characters from movies, TV, games, toys, and lifestyle brands, where the publisher has paid the original intellectual property owner for the right to publish the character or property in book form.

«We couldn't be more excited to expand on the epic movie universe in the Transformers: Dark of the Moon game, and allow fans to experience the gripping events and backstories that occur right before the upcoming film,» said Paul Wright, Head of Marketing for Licensed Properties, Activision Publishing.

And now, since we live in a time where various licenses are being used to create great games we're getting a boardgame version of the movie courtesy of designer Eric Lang and publisher CMON.

The Transformers license has had an incredibly rocky time when it comes to videgames, from the awesome PS2 title Transformers: The Game and High Moon Studios great War for Cybertron, and then considerably less impressive the movie tie - ins.

- 14 different licenses confirmed thus far: Ghostbusters, Portal, Back to the Future, The Wizard of Oz, DC Comics, Scooby Doo, Doctor Who, Lego Chima, The Lord of the Rings, The Simpsons, The Lego Movie, Jurassic World, Midway Games, and Lego Ninjag - not ready to talk about Midway Games content yet - total of 14 levels, each with four different areas to explore - game will be silly, family - friendly fun - main characters are DC Comics» Batman, The Lego Movie's Wyldstyle, and The Lord of the Rings» Gandalf - these characters work together to stop Lord Vortec, who is making the dimensions collide - Wyldstyle won't take any guff - Gandalf will provide the wisdom - the three will set off down the yellow brick road togethe - when Batman steps into the Wizard of Oz world, he ias quick to say, «We're not in Gotham anymore.

Bond is an event in both film and literature, but here he has been relegated to the likes of every licensed movie game created.

In fact it is the first computer game officially licensed by the Conan Doyle Estate, so those who have read the books or seen the movies can expect familiar faces from Watson, the doctor and Holmes» sidekick, to Mycroft, Holmes» brother in the secret service and, of course, Moriarty the criminal mastermind.

There has been talks about a video game tie in which seemingly is still on track as Barlog is involved in production of the movie and possibly in charge of managing the incorporation of the video game using the Mad Max license.

Beyond launch, some of my favorites include Vampire: Master of Darkness (a bonafide classic AFAIAC), Shinobi and Shinobi 2 (sort of Revenge of Shinobi meets Mega Man), X-Men and Gamesmasters Legacy, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and MMPR: The Movie (super smooth fighting games, no matter what you think of the license), the Sonic games, Ax Battler (sort of Golden Axe meets Zelda 2), and I am sure I am forgetting some!

So consider yourself forewarned - you're likely to want to watch the movies again after playing this game (I'm watching Fellowship of the Ring while writing this, as a matter of fact) and you'll probably be at The Hobbit on its opening weekend... which are probably good signs that the game makes good use of its license.

Transformers: War for Cybertron — proof that licensed games can be half decent if they're not movie tie - ins — 7/10

The movie was received so poorly at the box office and by critics that Nintendo has been fiercely protective of licensing any new non-video game depictions of their properties ever since.

But there's one early attempt at a video game movie that relied so heavily on artistic license that it's a mystery how Nintendo ever signed off on the final cut.

IGN has a press release confirming that Namco Bandai and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising will be releasing the movie - turned - game Dragonball: Evolution on the PSP in April of 2009.

Sony has the movie rights, Marvel has the game licensing rights.

I know what you're thinking; this is a movie - based game that has scored particularly low across most of the Internet, and it's probably fuel to the «every licensed game sucks» fire.

The publisher released a small quantity of games during the holiday quarter including: Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, a port of the Disneyland ride Toy Story Mania for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and a few licensed games on the mobile platforms, which one consisted of a game adaptation of their hit movie, Wreck - it - Ralph.

For some reason, the game has the Terminator 2 license — a movie that came out in 1991, and it's great, but we're not sure what it has to do with a battle royale game mode in the year 2017.

The license certainly does help thanks to Pixar's unique charm and the game includes a variety of movie footage and trailers to please fans of the film.