8 Video Games You Didn't Realise Ripped Off Famous Movies

3. Spec Ops: The Line - Apocalypse Now

Easily boasting one of the best video game stories of the decade so far, Spec-Ops: The Line is one of the medium's few genuine cult-classics. Telling a grim-dark tale about the horrors of war, the story is all about one soldier's descent into madness while trapped in the almost-alien landscape of Dubai, which has been cut off from the rest of the world by a sandstorm.

The general story takes inspiration from Apocalypse Now, which is similarly about a group of soldiers entering foreign territory to take down a Colonel who's gone rogue and embraced the brutality of their lawless environment. Diving headfirst into themes of PTSD, the movie also informs the game's visual style, especially in its scorched Earth depiction of war.

However, both projects are fundamentally based on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, to the point where the villain of the game is literally named after the author. It wears its influences on its sleeve, and it's all the better for it.