It is a great time to be a film fan. These days we get a new blockbuster every month that can take us to new places with well written characters and engrossing stories. For a couple of hours in the cinema we get to forget our worries and be taken to impossible places.
When you watch a movie you can only observe and empathise with the characters and dream of being in their shoes, but now in most video games you are the hero and are free to go through the story. You make your own decisions, building relationships with other characters as you see fit. They create their own universes that players are fully able to explore. But having said this, there are more than just a few films that create worlds that are equally deserving of some additional exploration; films that would make excellent games.
Harry Potter
With J.K. Rowling writing the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a story which will help broaden the existing wizarding universe, she has shown an interest in doing more than stories about school and adolescence. While she's at it, perhaps our dear J.K. would like to create an original storyline for a gaming world? We may play as the generation who experiences the aftermath of Harry and his friends, going from school to finding our own careers in the Ministry of Magic. A brand new, original villain on the scale of Voldemort would also be in order. Could you imagine the House Sorting? Going to Diagon Alley to buy your owl and wand? Quidditch matches? Magic duels? Accio new video game!
Mean Girls
As you may or may not be aware, Kim Kardashian has had a recent unexpected success with a phone app about social climbing in Hollywood. With earnings approaching $200 million it just goes to show that there is clearly a starved audience who are eager for games like this. With that in mind, what better than a Mean Girls game where the character must climb their way to the top of the high school popularity ladder?
If nothing else then it couldn't hurt to absorb the film's sense of humour to ensure players don't take it too seriously. Either way, it would be so fetch!
Pacific Rim
The Hunger Games
The Purge
Awesome multiplayer set aside, I imagine it to be similar to Slender Man and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Certainly it would require a very sinister atmosphere as you choose what to do with your twelve hours without legal responsibility. Would you choose to leave the safety of your home and do as you desire, or would you cross paths with even more unsavoury characters than yourself who will proceed to hunt you down wherever you go?
Sin City
The X-Men
Just take a look at Batman's Arkham series and Injustice: Gods Among us and you'll see their talent for melding epic gameplay with excellent writing. I can't imagine Marvel letting their arch nemesis hog the spotlight for much longer. In time Marvel will want to give their audience a game of that caliber. Although the immediate Marvel franchise to pick would be The Avengers I think there is possibly another which would be far more approachable to gamers. I would encourage an X-Men game, with a strong story driven single player mode and with the option of an epic multiplayer. With the franchise's massive number of characters and variety of different powers to cater to all gamer preferences I can foresee some truly amazing matches.
Or perhaps for a solo game Marvel could take their inspiration from past successes such as Spider Man 2. The playful style and light humour would contrast with Batman Arkham well. But if they wanted to do something darker, perhaps a game about the Brotherhood of Mutants and play to prove mutant superiority over humans in the guise of Mystique or Magneto.
We're ready for our close up now.
Are there any movie tie-in games that you'd love to see or are you sick to death of them?
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