10 Video Game Tie-Ins That Missed The Point Of The Movie

When trailers were released for Zack Snyder's adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen, they were met with a mix of apprehension and excitement. Would it retain the unique style of the comic? Shot-for-shot, apparently. But Snyder was largely unproven as a filmmaker at the time, known mainly for removing 99 per cent of the social commentary in his Dawn of the Dead remake and dumbing it down into a straightforward action-horror. In short, he knew how to make things look pretty, but couldn't really go beyond.

The same could be said of his Watchmen adaptation, a seminal work that psychoanalyzed its characters, moral and ethical quandaries and the complexities of having to contend with Superman in reality (a topic he'd further blunder with Batman v. Superman: Court case #S-3987). He downplayed the psyche, upped the hyperviolence.

So perhaps the game, The End is Nigh, a six-chapter XBOX 360 and PS3 beat-em-up release that expands on scenes from the film only briefly mentioned ("I haven't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein!"), is in fact faithful to Snyder's vision; it just further degrades the source material.