10 Massively Underrated Video Games Based On Movies

This Nintendo exclusive arrived with low expectations – it’s a game based on an action-free comedy, which in turn is based loosely on a comic series – but turned out to be an absolute hoot. Although it takes its cues from the 1995 movie, the game is very cartoonish in style, with developer Black Pearl Software mining eye-popping colour from seemingly drab levels, such as hero Stanley Ipkiss’s apartment and the goon-laden streets of Edge City.

The best feature about The Mask, though, is its quasi beat ‘em up/ platformer gameplay style; one minute you could be flinging a mask-powered Ipkiss across rooftops and the next using your humongous horn (steady on) to knock a prison inmate to the deck. It was this vibrant, colourful mix that garnered the game a raft of positive reviews but, like the mask itself, has been left bobbing on the waters of under-appreciation for too long.