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What was the worst game adapation of a movie you have ever played? (piefed.social)
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For me, it has to be Alien: Colonial Marines as it's terrible due to inconsistent frame rate (moments the game ran smooth and times where lag was insane, even with the best hardware). Both player & enemy AI is crap since the combat wasn't even that immersive plus Xenomorph AI isn't as intimidating due to it being poorly implemented.

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[-] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

This sort of question has come up many times, and my knee jerk reaction is to always say E.T. for the Atari 2600, but I have actually played a worse licensed game that could arguably be said was an adaptation of a movie. It was Superman 64 for the Nintendo 64. It is just an utter failure of a game. It is boring, buggy, and frustrating. It looks bad, controls bad, plays bad. At no point does that game approach "fun".

In the spirit of the post, one could argue that this isn't specifically about the Superman movie and could be more about the comic books. I never read them, so I can't say. Honestly, the game was so bad it was hard to tell which inspired it.

[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

I genuinely think that Superman 64 is more entertaining and fun to play than E.T. .

[-] Durandal@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well… it’s based on the 90s cartoon…

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115378/

But in reality it was “inspired” by cash grab money and bad management.

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