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Most of them are cheaply made and hastily thrown together in order to coincide with the movie, and as such, they play and look like absolute…again, garbage comes to mind. And these are the worst of the worst. These are ten of the worst movie-based games of all time, according to Metacritic.
10 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - 37
Frankly, it’s a shame what happened to the Harry Potter series of games. The early half of the series, particularly Chamber of Secrets, were quite well-regarded and nicely captured the magical feeling of the novels and movies. However, that all changed with Order of the Phoenix, and got even worse, culminating in the dreaded The Deathly Hallows: Part 1. This was just like all the other mediocre movie tie-ins out there, filled with cheap graphics, unresponsive and bland gameplay mechanics, and some truly mundane missions that completely sucked the magic from the story. What a waste of a golden opportunity.
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9 Bad Boys: Miami Takedown - 35
The Bad Boys movies were just asking to be made into killer video games. We got…this, instead. The characters of Marcus and Mike were totally destroyed, like cheap wax sculptures of their movie counterparts. Not only did they look absolutely nothing like Will Smith or Martin Lawrence, but the voice actors sounded like they recorded their lines in five minutes. On top of that, you have some boring shooting mechanics and some truly reprehensible graphics and physics, betraying the fact that this was obviously a cheaply made product that was never meant to be taken seriously.
8 The Incredible Hulk - 33
Marvel consistently puts out rather harmless, but otherwise very competently made movies. They dominated this box office decade, after all. So it’s frankly amazing that they slapped their names on this sub-par game. The resolutions and graphics were truly abysmal, making this look like a game from 1998, not 2008. The gameplay was also lame and horribly repetitive, and the game was plagued with graphical issues like clipping and camera angles. It was a messy, messy product, and it reeked of cheap movie cash-in nonsense.
7 Kick-Ass - 33
Kick-Ass was a surprisingly great movie. It served as a great and hilarious meta-commentary on the superhero genre, and it packed enough violence to satisfy the most bloodthirsty of gorehounds. Okay, it wasn’t that graphic…but it was pretty violent! Meanwhile, there’s this PSN iteration that absolutely tarnishes the Kick-Ass name. The gameplay was repetitive and shallow beat-em-up fare, the graphics were obviously cheap, and it lacked the Kick-Ass magic of the movie. Add in some game-breaking technical issues, and you have yourself one not-so-kick-ass video game.
6 Land Of The Dead: Road To Fiddler’s Green - 32
Not only is Land of the Dead one of the worst movie tie-in games ever, it’s arguably one of the worst first-person shooters, period. It was meant to tie into that George A. Romero movie that no one really saw or cared about, and saw you playing as a farmer named Jack as he fought his way to the confines of Fiddler’s Green. Only, it was plagued with gameplay and graphics deader and duller than the zombies. The graphics looked like they were from last century, the zombies’ AI was atrocious — and not in a good zombie way — and the gameplay consisted of simple point and click and shoot the undead thing. It’s like a good game was raised from the dead and is now a rotted corpse of its former self.
5 Dragon Ball: Evolution - 28
We don’t know what was worse — the movie or the game. In fact, we bet you didn’t even know there was a game. Well there was, and it was released for the PSP, and it was absolutely dreadful. Many critics called it one of the worst movie tie-in games of all time, thanks primarily to the truly dreadful fighting mechanics. It was so obvious that this game was made on the cheap, as basically every aspect of its production was unassuming. It’s frankly amazing what they managed to do with such a beloved and iconic IP. Stay far, far away from this one. Not that you wanted to play it, anyway.
4 007 Legends - 26
James Bond has a long and storied history in gaming. Let’s forget that 007 Legends exists. This game sounded really fun in theory, as it included missions that coincided with various movies, including Goldfinger, OHMSS, Moonraker, License to Kill, Die Another Day, and Skyfall. However, developer Eurocom fouled off this easy fastball. Well, more like swung through it entirely. It was a cheaply made disaster on all fronts, and it basically killed the entire concept of Bond games, as this is the final one released on consoles to date. Bond himself should be sent to assassinate this tragedy.
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3 R.I.P.D. The Game - 26
Look, we love Ryan Reynolds as much as everyone else, but he has starred in some truly dreadful movies. One of the worst offenders is R.I.P.D., a movie about a police force that deals with undead entities or something. We dunno, we didn’t see it. We haven’t played the game either, but according to the Metacritic scores, we aren’t missing much. By the sound of things, it was just another horrible movie tie-in, but somehow…even worse. If that’s possible.
2 Charlie’s Angels - 23
Charlie’s Angels is a historic game. It’s just so unbelievably bad that it is universally acknowledged as one of the worst video games ever made. Just look at that screenshot. Who honestly wants to play that? This game was widely eviscerated by critics everywhere, many of whom attacked its dreadful graphics and physics, game-breaking glitches, horrendous control system, painfully easy difficulty, artificial intelligence, and especially the frustrating camera. Need we go on?
1 Rambo: The Video Game - 23
Honestly, how did they screw Rambo up so bad? These movies are rife for a good gaming adaptation. After all, they mostly just involve Rambo running around, shooting people, and blowing up buildings. It could make a great shooter, or maybe even an open world that sees you completing various objectives. Instead, we got Rambo: The Video Game, a game no one should ever speak of. It’s nothing but a very basic and repetitive on-rails shooter, and it’s complete with some truly horrendous graphics and abysmal sound design. We can’t put into words just how bad this game is. It’s like playing a nightmare.
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