Today, Hollywood is betting on adapting the stories and characters of video game on the big screen, with which it obviously achieves little success compared to the opposite case, since, in previous years, the normal thing was that the gaming industry produce your own titles based on the most popular movies worldwide international.
Some of the games most remembered by the community are those who shaped the plot of a well-known movie so that the Username can experience the argument of the history by itself through controls and your own perspective.
That said, this time we will review those video games that adapted movies, mostly from Science fictionand that they managed to consolidate themselves to get a place in the main ranking of the developers and portals gaming.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson’s trilogy had a great closure in terms of critics and viewers’ assessment, and caused other industries to want to release products related to this fictional saga. For this reason, this video game adaptation was launched for PC and also for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube consoles.
One of the most solid titles in terms of following the plot and story told in a film, in such a way that during the adventure you can visit Mordor, Mount Doom, the countryside of Gondor and the city of Minas Tirith.
Alien: Isolation
Considered one of the best developed horror games. This installment was able to capture the anguish of a protagonist within a survival story, since he has to control Ripley’s daughter in a scenario set 15 years after what happened in the first Alien film.
As in the movie released last century, in almost the entire game the player has to go through narrow corridors and use tools to avoid the creature, but not with the aim of defeating it, but trying to tame it.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (PC and PSX)
A large part of the gamer community is, in turn, a fan of the best science fiction movies, Harry Potter being one of the most internationally recognized. Philosopher’s Stone, the first film in the entire saga starring the most famous magician in the world, had its own gamer version for almost all platforms at the time.
The title managed to fully adapt the facts, with an excellent audiovisual narrative for the time, so much so that although this story comes from a book, the deliveries for PlayStation and PC faithfully told what was seen in theaters, offering the same spells, characters and scenes.
The Matrix: Path of Neo (PS2)
It is one of the most surreal action games developed in the third person, its main character is Neo from the movie The Matrix and it used everything seen in the trilogy to consolidate itself as a PlayStation 2 classic.
Released in 2005, it replicated the vast majority of scenes from the film, giving us levels where you had to dodge or stop bullets, martial arts, and fly.
The Lion King (NES)
The list ends with an animated movie, which we could not leave out because it was one of the classics when the generation leap in video games was going to be made. This side-view game was released for the NES in 1994 and became a hit in the US and around the world.
With the classic system of platforms with direction to the right, this title is the most remembered for allowing us to see Simba’s growth, from when he was a lion cub to seeing his consolidation as the leader of the pack, and the overthrow of the executioner of his father Scar.