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17 Of The Worst Games Based On Movies

By:: JhallComics

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17 Of The Worst Games Based On Movies

After the video game industry crash of 1983, “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” could have been one of the last games ever made, and honestly, that would have been understandable. Here are some of the worst offenders in the “movie-to-video-game” pipeline (so far, anyway).

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Total Recall 1990 SCORE 1560 CRACKED.COM The mind bending, extraplanetary action classic is reduced to a generic platformer with the instantly recognizable Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced with a Some Dude in a green onesie. The barrel-chested hero runs like he isn't going to make it to the toilet. — Source: Screen Rant

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Raiders Of The Lost Ark 1982 t CRACKED.COM A pixelated fire hydrant does the best Indiana Jones impression it can muster as it struts around a blank background, occasionally scrolling into a new zone and immediately plunging to its death. There were limits to what the technology could do at the time, but even Dig Dug looks like a James Cameron movie compared to this. — Source: Games Radar

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Home Alone 1991 CRACKED.com Kevin McCallister's home, a seemingly endless hallway corridor and Fort Knox style bank vault, is under attack from The Wet/Sticky Bandits, as well prohibition-era gangsters in bowler hats. You don't set any elaborate traps in this take, choosing to instead jump around collecting valuables before the bad guys. — Source: Games Radar

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Batman Forever 1995 CRACKED .COM Awkward video-capture sprites of Batman and Robin sway and jump through ugly levels and constantly get their rubber-suited butts whipped by a bunch of crowbar wielding nobodies dressed like garbagemen. — Source: Screen Rant

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Fight Club 2004 Angel Face CRACKED.COM If you remember the movie Fight Club for the message it's really cool to take off your shirt and punch people, then this game was made for you. Although stripped of the complexity that made the movie compelling, you can unlock Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst and break Jared Leto's spine. — Source: Games Radar

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The Wizard of Oz 1993 CRACKED.COM Taking a rather liberal interpretation of the source material, Dorothy straps on her ruby slippers and puts the beat-down on cactus cats, unicycle corn, and sentient furniture. It could have been an unusually rad tie-in game, but the controls and murky visual data made for a frustrating experience. — Source: Screen Rant

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Back to the Future 1989 001200 HI CRACKEDo .COM It's Marty McFly the way we all know him: as a muscle-shirt Greaser who walks down the street collecting alarm clocks and avoiding bees. The story is as non-existent as your character's health, SO it's safe to say this is just a generic NES scroller with the barest Back To The Future sheen. — Source: Screen Rant

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Thor: God of Thunder 2011 CRACKEDG The MCU tie-in game, and a first for the hirsute god, seeks to tell an original tale with familiar faces, but repetitive gameplay, bad graphics, and endless glitches put players into the Odinsleep. This was the worst thing to happen to Thor until Thor: The Dark World, two years later. — Source: Screen Rant

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Top Gun 1987 10048 R8DR8: MISSILE it 00597 SPEED mi/h CRACKED.COM The high octane action of the Tom Cruise film is translated as well as possible on the limited hardware, which is to say you fire blobs at other blobs, against a solid blue backdrop. It doesn't even have greased up pilots playing volleyball. — Source: Screen Rant

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Space Jam 1996 13 CRACKED Not quite as endearingly primitive as the mid 90's website, the Space Jam game is a grab-bag of random minigames loosely tied to the events of the movie. If the prospect of collecting sneakers while avoiding getting mauled by a dog doesn't inspire excitement, then the eye-straining graphics and awkward controls definitely won't. — Source: Games Radar

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Star Wars 1987 CRACKED.COM This Japan-only release takes visual cues from the Star Wars universe, but little else. As Luke Skywalker, in his karate pajamas, you travel the starways fighting the animal-transforming Darth Vader, and get instantly killed with every hit. — Source: Screen Rant

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Disney's The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure 2000 CRACKED.COM This is a game where you play as a lion that gets hurt by ladybugs and small lizards. Instead of trying to tell an interesting story, or even following the familiar one of the movie, this Lion King game is more interested in making you collect thousands of paw-print tokens scattered over ugly, blocky levels. — Source: Game Rant

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 CRACKED.COM As one of the first movie tie-in games ever, it had nothing to be compared against, and yet it still sucked. The insanely rushed 5-week development time resulted in shockingly ugly visuals, even for the time period, and confusing gameplay that has nothing in common with the movie. — Source: NPR

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The Hunt For Red October 1991 CRACKEDO No one can say for sure if it was in the 30-year-old game's best interest to not even attempt to digitize Sean connery onto the SNES, but the submarine side-scrolling shoot em' up doesn't make up for this shortcoming by doing anything interesting or fun. — Source: Games Radar

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Blues Brothers 2000 2000 HIt CRACKED COM It's every 90's kids favorite comedy/music duo: The Blues Brothers! This (thankfully) short 3D open world game throws everything at the wall to see what sticks, like t-person apple throwing, rhythm-game button mashing, and action platforming. Spoiler alert, it all sucks. — Source: Games Radar

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Independence Day 1997 113 10:02 BOGEY HAS LOCK CRACKED.COM Under threat of global annihilation, you pilot a fighter jet with one goal: blow the aliens to kingdom come. It's not the worst direction to take a schlocky summer blockbuster, but the problem is they don't deviate from the core gameplay through the 13 missions and by the end you're ready to sacrifice yourself like Randy Quaid. — Source: Games Radar

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Jaws Unleashed 1997 CRACKED.COM It's finally time for the great white to get its revenge; in this bloody, underwater adventure, YOU control the fish. We all love wanton destruction, especially as a 3 ton killing machine with a one track mind, but how many times can you bite a scuba diver in half before it gets boring?

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