SOME MOVIES MAKE TERRIBLE GAMES
(Posted 2007-06-28 14:37:44 by basscomm)

For some reason, I've been seeing a glut of articles telling me things that
I either already know or are so obvious I should already know.

Case in point, Thomas Tull of Legendary Pictures offers this word of
advice:
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During his keynote speech on the second day of the Hollywood & Games Summit
Tull said, "Not everything translates. Just because a movie comes out and
does well, if there isn’t a good story or a compelling reason [to create a
game], it is a very dangerous thing to take a brand, slap it on a box, and
just say 'Well, people will buy it.'

"If you rely solely on the brand itself, and not on the gameplay, I think
that’s a mistake," he continued.

"I have very strong feelings from the movie side… Making videogames into
movies just because they have sold well is a pretty bad idea."
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I've played my fair share of movie tie-in games, and they've by and large
been pretty crappy. Games like _The Grinch_ and _The Chronicles of Narnia_
were pretty terrible. I actually have tried to steer away from games based
on movies as much as possible. Though things like the Half-Life mod [
http://manke.planethalflife.gamespy.com/uw_bloodline.htm ] for _Underworld_
give me hope that somebody out there knows how to make a proper movie
tie-in, even though the movie was pretty terrible.

Link! [ http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=26180 ] to
article (Gamesindustry.biz).

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