Video game tie-ins with movies are nothing new, though it feels like there have been less of them lately. This is a good thing, because on the whole they tend to be a bit, well, crap. Thats usually a result of a rushed development period, where the game has to be built from the ground up to hit a certain release date, and itll get kicked out of the house on that date regardless of quality. There have been some notable exceptions of course, like GoldenEye, Aladdin or Spider-Man 2, but as a rule its wise to avoid them. One of the rarer genres of video game tie-ins are the games that directly follow on from the movies story, taking the characters into new adventures. They avoid doing this because if a movie sequel ends up happening and they usually do then the games plot will just get wiped from continuity; just look at the case of poor Tron 2.0. In even rarer cases however, these follow-up games end up being the only direct continuation the movie gets. This can happen for any number of reasons, like a series dying at the box-office or being rebooted, leaving it up to the video game to provide one last hurrah for the series.
