My Cart - With Alien: Isolation recently released on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, we’re going to take a look at some of the best games that are based on films. Usually, it’s a minefield when it comes to game tie-ins. Most of them are rushed, glitched and botched to the point where you wonder, two minutes in, why you bothered spending £40 on Transformers: The Game. In fact, if you’re buying Transformers: The Game and you’re not an eight-year-old boy, you probably ought to give up gaming altogether. Seriously, put the pad down, back away from the console, and take a long hard look at your terrible self in the mirror. But Alien: Isolation – which acts as a sort of unofficial sequel to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic – isn’t the only game that’s as good as its source material. Here are some of our favourites.
The Warriors
In 1979, director Walter Hill released The Warriors – a sort-of futuristic gang flick that sees Coney Island’s The Warriors accused of murder after all the gangs of New York meet. They have to bop their way back home, crossing through rival gang’s turfs, all while wearing nifty red waistcoats. Sound good? Man, it’s even better than that. 27 years later, GTA makers Rockstar released The Warriors. It might seem a weird fix, but it works. Combat is fluid, the story makes sense – revealing how The Warriors ended up at the gang meeting – and the game’s so faithful to the film that most of the cast return to crack some skulls to that delicious 70’s soundtrack.
Blade Runner
If you’ve seen Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner then you’ll pretty much know what to expect with Blade Runner the game. You might not think a classic PC point-and-click adventure would translate from a film so well, in which case, go home. We don’t tolerate your type around here. The hero – Ray McCoy taking over the Rick Deckard role – is following up the same leads that Harrison Ford did in the film, and he’s just as flawed. The player can choose to Voight-Kampf suspects, or let them flee. You can crack the case, or get it wrong. There are multiple endings, the voice actors are awesome, and the sets, well, if it wasn’t for the pixel-y 90’s graphics you’d think they were direct from the film.
GoldenEye
Look, everyone knows GoldenEye was Pierce Brosnan’s finest outing as James Bond. And everyone knows the N64’s GoldenEye was – and maybe still is – the one and only true king of the first-person shooter. It basically redefined the FPS genre, featuring levels that are directly based on scenes from the film. But the real jewel in GoldenEye’s crown is the split-screen multiplayer, which sees Bond and co. run around film-based maps, killing each other with guns. Y’know, the way friends do. All fun and games though – unless your mate picks OddJob. Everyone knows if you play as OddJob you’re just a dirty cheat.
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