10 Movies You Never Knew Had Their Own Video Game

5. Platoon

Platoon Game
Ocean Software

Unlike Napoleon Dynamite, you can't accuse developers Ocean Software of waiting too long to adapt Oliver Stone's searing, Best Picture-winning 1986 Vietnam war film Platoon into a game.

The year after its release, Platoon was made into a shooter for the NES, or to be more blunt, a howlingly blatant ripoff of the recently-released Contra.

But more offensive than the cribbing is how utterly the game ignores and undercuts the movie's message.

Stone's film is, for all of its brutality, a defiantly anti-war movie, something largely ignored by the game, which translates Stone's story into a familiar blast-a-thon shooting gallery. It was generally well-received by critics at the time, though.

Less-favourable was the response to 2002's second Platoon game, which despite taking the slightly more tasteful bent of an RTS game received wildly mixed reviews.

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