Movie-Based Videogames - Not Actually That Bad?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday June 16, 2004 @05:19AM from the celluloid-pixeloid dept.

Moryath writes "The fine folks at Glide Underground look like they've started a new weekly column - and for their opening run, they tackled the question of whether movie-licensed games are in fact cursed or not. Apparently it was in honor of too many reviewers picking up the new Chronicles of Riddick title, and proclaiming boldly that the game broke some curse - 'movie video games suck, it doesn't suck but it's a movie game, ergo curse broken.' Quite an interesting read, going back all the way to the days of Atari 2600 to examine the history of movie-licensed games."

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Give credit to the developer... by Song+for+the+Deaf · 2004-06-16 05:36 · Score: 5, Insightful

If Chronicles of Riddick is good, all that means is the developer actually cared about the product and had the imagination and talent to pull it off. It's that simple.
The underlying problem is still and will always be there- games based on movies tend to be promotional tie-ins first, games second.