NDTV: Two of the most praised games of this year are Shadow of Mordor and Alien: Isolation. New titles like Destiny and Titanfall were the most anticipated names to watch this year, while few were expecting great things out of games based on existing film franchises. Yet on Metacritic - an aggregator of game reviews - you can see that these franchise games were much better received, by critics and users alike.
Trying to compare these very different games is of course silly, but it does raise an interesting point. When video games based on movies are widely acknowledged as terrible - and vice versa too, as anyone who has watched movies based on video games can tell you - how is it that two of the best received games of the year are based on movies?
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Fans (myself included) are clamouring for a direct sequel to this fantastic game and hope for an Alien: Isolation 2. But will this great game ever get another instalment?
tbh it doesn’t need a sequel. Fantastic game but not something to make into a long running series.
Also included are Alien: Isolation, Dead Island Definitive Edition, Outlast 2, and more.
Good month imo. I'll play Gotham Knights and House of Ashes. I'm finishing up Disco E on Steam right now - that's a superb game.
Middle-Earth is not based on the LOTR or the Hobbit movies, and Alien sucked balls.. Don't know what this article was trying to prove.. FAIL.
.. Funny headline and blurb considering Neither Alien Isolation or Shadow Of Mordor ever were movies. I wouldn't say they're "based on" movies at all.
I guess if you only have tangential links to a movie franchise it makes it much easier to make a game.. Though that's sort of common sense?
I can't think of many legitimately great true film license games in the traditional sense, where the game connects to, or covers content from the movie.
Shadow of Mordor is based on an universe that came to life in literature and countless other games were also heavily influenced by Tolkien's work despite not taking place in the universe he created. Bioware games like Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age are an example of it and so are the Elder Scrolls games. Shadow of Mordor has nothing to do with the movies because the movies themselves are direct (although incomplete) adaptations of Tolkien's books.
It was proven quite a while ago with games like Riddick, Wolverine and Ghostbusters, among a few others.
Its only now that publishers have finally started to get their heads out of their proverbial asses and actually given time/effort/money to these licences.
There have been movie tie in games that proved that before. Goldeneye comes to mind.