The power of branding has become mightily important in video gaming. While new franchises launch successfully every now and again, there are more failures than successes when launching a new IP. Despite this, it’s rare and unfortunate that a video game adaption of a film, television show or book is any good.
The majority of summer blockbusters (last summers Battleship and The Amazing Spider-Man for example) usually have a video game tie-in and the odd television show (Prison Break, CSI, Game of Thrones) has had video game tie-ins released in the past. With the focus on brands that apparently equal good sales (which can definitely be said of original video game franchises like Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and Grand Theft Auto), it has not been as successful for film/TV tie-ins.
When you look at the long list of films/television shows/books that have been transferred to our gaming screens over the years and have been so poorly received, it is really disappointing to see such a long list of failures and near misses. However, with it only getting more expensive to produce new games, big name franchise tie-ins will surely become a big part of the future of gaming. Already being an established name brand, the success is already there, the only thing needed is to build a game world that should do the original media justice (it has been done before occasionally, the most recent and obvious being the the episodic The Walking Dead game).
Here are seven media franchises that are screaming out for a next-generation game and that could actually be good and worth your hard earned cash…
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I feel like an Indiana Jones game would be almost no different than Uncharted. Uncharted to me is the Indiana Jones of video games, but I would still like to see an Indy game anyways, just because its Indy.
A lot of these games have kinda already been made, a Robocop game would probably end up being like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Uncharted is basically video game Indiana Jones, Mad Max would probably end up being a lot like Borderlands.
However, I must admit that the idea of a Jurassic Park game would interest me if they were to make it a very survival orientated game and I agree that, as a fan of both the books and the show, Game of Thrones has the potential to spawn a great game if they were to get the right developer behind it.
Almost all of these have games already, and with the exception of one or two Indiana Jones games, they all pretty much sucked. Film franchises very rarely translate well into games. Or at least, design studios rarely do a good job of it. I’d much rather see something new. Though GoT could make a great game, there are similar concepts out there already.
All movie-based games are pretty much sucks so no to all of them. Furthermore we already video game equivalents to those movies mentioned by others (Uncharted, Borderlands, Deus Ex etc) Movies should remain as they are and let the game developers choose the story they want to tell rather than tying it to movies.
Id buy the starship troopers game, I could see it as a Halo type game. The Multiplayer would have survival type game where your in that base from the first film were dizzy(i think) dies, I think youd need Rico in it in some fashion, squad leader? meet Ace and Carmen and Karl?