Saturday 22 August 2009

Adaption

There are several styles of games, but they can still be sub-divided, regardless of genre. You see, you have the simple games, which use a new idea, and carry on from there. But then you get the games that are just additional merchandise for films. Often, when a film comes out, a game is made of it, for most consoles. Why don't the makers ever realise that you may get more money, but you're unleashing pieces of crap unto the world? There are very rarely any that succeed, due to repetitive gameplay, or an obvious storyline. Examples are Superman Returns, Little Britain and Spiderman.
Then there are games that are adapted into films. When are filmmakers ever going to get this right as well? I have never seen a film that is even half as good as the game it had been based on, with the exception of Resident Evil. What most films do is remove the gameplay aspects that make the game brilliant, and replace them with (mostly cliched) storyline, which is maybe acceptable, due to it being a film. But still, films like Silent Hill, Alone in the Dark, and Hitman removed the suspense, tension and general awesomeness of the game, and completely messed it all around, added random and useless bits, satuck on the same title, and called it a film adaption. I now hear that a God of War film adaption is happening. Half of me is thrilled by this (the greatest game of all time as a film has POTENTIAL) but the other half is screaming NO NO NO!!! THEY'L MESS IT UP, GET RID OF THE COOL BITS, AND INCLUDE A LOVE INTEREST!!!! Film adaptions of games, they just don't work