Movies based on video games is at an all time high right now. This has even broadened into TV shows and anime like The Witcher and Castlevania on Netflix. There aren’t a lot of video games coming out based on movies any more though which used to be a staple of the industry.

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Some of the most celebrated games of all time came from movies such as GoldenEye 007 and even Aladdin. Those are two great games from two great movies. This brings an interesting question to mind though. Has there ever been a game better than the movie of which it is based? 

10 Lego Star Wars: The Video Game

This was the first Lego game made by Traveler’s Tales and it was an instant hit. It came out in 2005 to coincide with the release of the third and final prequel movie. Not many like those films, in general, so getting something better than the source material wasn’t a high bar to jump over. Lego Star Wars: The Video Game managed to blow expectations out of the water on consoles like the PS2. 

9 Disney Infinity: The Lone Ranger

With every Disney movie there used to be an accompanying game to it. These movies were made for kids so it was only natural to make a game for what is perceived to be a childhood hobby by many. 

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After that well dried up, Disney Infinity was the answer to try something different with how they approached tie-in games via playsets on consoles like the PS3. Playsets came with a whole campaign designed around a movie, like The Longer Ranger, which might not be a good movie but it is a fun, more kid-friendly Red Dead Redemption. 

8 Ratchet And Clank

Many forget that the last Ratchet and Clank game before Rift Apart was a PS4 tie-in to the movie in 2016. There were even cutscenes from the film spliced into the game and they looked worse than the game itself. It used to be that any sort of CG movie added to a game, like the cutscenes in Final Fantasy VII, would look better. That’s not the case here and just shows how far along video games have come in terms of technology. 

7 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game 

If one were to rank out every Scott Pilgrim medium it would go the comic, this digital game, and then the movie. All three things are great, but as for game and movie comparison goes, the game is just slightly better. It was a real win for gamers when it finally came back to consoles in January 2021 after being delisted from digital stores like the PS3 in 2014. It’s a short but fun brawler experience best played with three other friends. 

6 Sweet Home

Sweet Home is an obscure pick for those that don’t follow Japanese cinema. It’s a horror movie from 1989 which is good but also very cheesy in that perfect 80s way. In that same year, Capcom made an RPG puzzle game for the NES. This is the game that would later go on to inspire Capcom to make Resident Evil. The game never released outside of Japan but there is an English fan patch for it. 

5 The Mummy Demastered

Remember when Universal announced their Dark Universe? The Mummy reboot with Tom Cruise was so poorly received that all plans for future films in the franchise were canceled. Fans can rejoice at the very least for The Mummy Demastered which came out on platforms such as the PS4. It was a prequel to the movie starring a bunch of nameless soldiers infiltrating a tomb. It was made by WayForward and played out like a Metroidvania wherein if players died, another soldier would take their place. 

4 The Scorpion King: Sword of Osiris

Another great WayForward action platformer prior to this was The Scorpion King: Sword of Osiris. Funnily enough, this spinoff movie, which was also panned very hard, was also tied to The Mummy. This was the 90s franchise with Brendan Fraser though. One can not explain the glory that is The Rock in pixel form. Abs never looked so good on the GBA. 

3 The Warriors

One of Rockstar’s most overlooked PS2 games was The Warriors. It was a video game tie-in way past its due as the film came out in 1979 as opposed to 2005. It translated well into video game form because the lore of this film fit the medium so much. It was a world filled with whacky gangs with high stakes. Fight gangs, take over territories, repeat. It’s not a direct adaptation but the game is better because of that fact.

2 TMNT

TMNT is based on the first theatrical film since the live-action ones from the 90s. It was a CG reboot in 2006 that wasn’t bad but it also wasn’t outstanding either.

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Most of the video game tie-ins were just as averagely received all except for the GBA version. It was worked on by staff members at Ubisoft who would later go on to make the Scott Pilgrim game. Both games have a lot in common from the brawling action to enemies dropping money. 

1 X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Most X-Men fans of the live-action films were there to see one hero and one hero only: Wolverine. It made sense to give him his own spinoff then, but unfortunately, that turned out to be a bomb. The most infamous thing about it was how disrespectful they were to Deadpool. The game on PS3 the other hand was a great hack and slash game that tried to mirror other hits like God of War. It wasn’t as good as that but it was a blast. 

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