Taking License: Movies vs. Movie-Based Games

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In order to expand a two-hour movie into a five-to-10 hour video game, publishers often take liberties with the license. Unfortunately, wandering off the path usually means coming up with ridiculous stuff that never appears in the film. Snakes in A Nightmare on Elm Street? Crabs in Beowulf? Behold the movie game horror.

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  • pooandrooyayay on 11/17/2008 4:00 pm

    well spiderman has lived up now since web of shadows is great.

  • slashandthrash on 11/16/2008 3:22 pm

    Actually, ***htmare on Elm Street part 4: The Dream Master heavily featured a ninja character of sorts, Alice's brother Rick, who actually fights Freddy in a dojo. Your lists are so embarassing and infuriating, "gamedaily" should really just be closed down and erased from the internet.

  • masterhav0c on 11/15/2008 9:18 pm

    Beowulf the game contains the 20 years between the first part and the second part that aren't in the movie, you dumbasses.

  • sasquatchjack on 11/15/2008 6:29 am

    Sure the Superman game diverged from the movie, but that's because the movie was BOOOOOORING! Who'd want to play a game where you Super apply for your old job, Super fail to hit on your old girlfriend, take a Super paternity test, Super almost get killed by an island and then Super bond with your son. Superman Returns, as scripted, was a boring ass movie and would be a boring game.

  • kinghrothgard on 11/15/2008 5:33 am

    Yup, noticed too. First, Quantum of Solace is awesome, now they pop fun at him. Did The Voie of Yer Master change minds on that time,? Well, I shouldn't be surprised. Seeing how shallow and topic-ridden your "reviews" are, now I expect anything of you but quality. Time to move on to a page where there's people who actually know **** about gaming.

  • jpart122500 on 11/15/2008 1:12 am

    Some of these games did suck, like Jurassic Park, but you forgot the Sega Genesis Version as well. The number one worst licensed video game of all time is E.T. for Atari, look it up my friend.

  • frank1594 on 11/14/2008 11:29 pm

    Yeah, Obrien is right. I remember seeing the Quantom of Solace picture, not the movie the GAME and you said it was awesome. Obviously, these things pizz everybody off so please just stop doing them.

  • tehpamphleteer on 11/14/2008 10:36 pm

    Unless im mistaken, there's a far superior jurrasic park game fot the sega genesis.

  • obrienminustheo on 11/14/2008 9:56 pm

    Weren't you guys just promoting quantum of solace like a week or two ago...?

  • spacecowboy883 on 11/14/2008 9:50 pm

    alien 3 kicked ass, one of the first games i ever played

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