5 Books That Would Make Great Video Games

5. Ready Player One

Both book and film are so crammed with gaming references, it doesn’t seem to be huge leap to imagine a game based on Ernest Cline’s nerdtastic novel would be anything less than a Delorean-full of fun. Essentially a Ready Player One game would be all the best parts of every game tossed in a blender and poured out into a wonderful geek milkshake.

While licensing issues would occur from the likes of the coin-ops featured in the book and Lara Croft and Tracer’s appearances in the movie, there are easy workarounds.

The movie already switched the visually stale arcade duel with an high octane race, and similar adjustments could be made to the game.

Indeed, instead of following Parzival’s plot at all, the game could be set inside the OASIS itself. This would free players to explore their every gaming fantasy in one neat package. Ambitious though it may be, Ready Player One could be an FPS, a hack and slash, a racing sim and a sandbox all at once, depending on a player’s approach.

Surely the only thing better than reading though Cline’s nostalgia inducing references is to play through and discover them yourself?