What books would you like to see made into games?

All right, so Metro 2033 is pretty much a first. We've all seen games made out of movies, games made out of movies made out out of books, and even games made out of poems, but Metro 2033 pretty much marks the first time as well as I am aware, that we've seen a book directly translated into a videogame. This marks an exciting milestone if it is indeed successful. No longer will videogames made out of books have to adapt to the way the movies portray the world. Hopefully we'll see this more often. So what book or book series would you like to see follow in Metro 2033's footsteps, and take the jump into interactive entertainment?

Personally, I'd like to see the Chronicles of Narnia book series translated into a game series. I'll probably get flamed for suggesting this due to the Christian overtones throughout the series, but in my opinion the books offered up not only great morals and characters, but a sense of adventure that I think could translate extremely well into a game world. It had it all, epic battles, exploration, evil characters and numerous plots in each book that a game series could take on well.

So what about you guys? What favorite books of your do you think would translate well into videogames?

Twilight. :lol:princeofshapeir

it makes me shudder. :|

anyways, Id love to see the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series made into a game, if done right it could be like a more comedic mass effect or something.

War of the Worlds.

Halo: The Flood:P

curios george

All the Halo books WILL turn into games sooner or later.

The Deathstalker Chronicles. It's an over the top space opera series. It really is a good fit for a video game series.

Redwall - The game could have a lot of the mechanics of The Legend of Zelda/Prince of Persia. Journey on adventure that spans all over the Redwall area.

Redwall Battlefront - Take control of a Long Patrol Hare, an Abbey Mouse, an Otter or even a Badger, all controlling quite differently. Defend the Abbey from constant attacks and participate in giant battles everywhere. More of a SW: Battlefront/LotR: Conquest game.

All the Halo books WILL turn into games sooner or later.

lafiro93

don't see how the fall of reach could turn into a game.

I would Like to see world war z into a book. It had multiple character with there own storyline how they experience the zombie apocalypse. My favorite one was the otaku on and Mel Brooks(the author of world war z) actually put the word otaku into his book.

Redwall - The game could have a lot of the mechanics of The Legend of Zelda/Prince of Persia. Journey on adventure that spans all over the Redwall area.

Redwall Battlefront - Take control of a Long Patrol Hare, an Abbey Mouse, an Otter or even a Badger, all controlling quite differently. Defend the Abbey from constant attacks and participate in giant battles everywhere. More of a SW: Battlefront/LotR: Conquest game.

Zassimick

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Redwall

Redwall Battlefront

White_wolf_eye

I enjoyed them a lot back in high school when I read through them. Simple and enjoyable reads. There's a lot of potential there for grand set pieces, fun puzzles and a fantastic journey tat would look pretty cool.

Hitchikers guide is a defo from me reeks of so much pure potential.Cant think of any others (i really need to get a good book time to text my mate she has more books than a library xD)

Dune, a REAL game about dune, no more RTS' that have literally nothing to do with the book.

I want a real dune game, the only one to get it half-way right was the first Dune game by cryo Interactive

I want to ride a worm, I want to see Paul Atreides being tempted with sex, I want to see the fall of the Atreides house and the rise of the Fremen, I want to see the water life. I want to lead the raid against the Harkonnen Spice storehouses on Geidi Prime, I want to see the desperation of the people of dune for water and the hatred they felt for the Atreides family when they were spending years worth of water on plants in the Palace's garden and much more

The Tales of the Otori by Lian Hearn

The Jansen Directive by Robert Ludlum

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[QUOTE="Zassimick"]

Redwall

Redwall Battlefront

Zassimick

I enjoyed them a lot back in high school when I read through them. Simple and enjoyable reads. There's a lot of potential there for grand set pieces, fun puzzles and a fantastic journey tat would look pretty cool.

I'd really like to see battle royal become a game.

Its not a book but whatever. DMZ would make an awesome Freedom Fighters like game. check it out if you don't know what DMZ is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_(comics)

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All the Halo books WILL turn into games sooner or later.

TheShadowLord07

don't see how the fall of reach could turn into a game.

I would Like to see world war z into a book. It had multiple character with there own storyline how they experience the zombie apocalypse. My favorite one was the otaku on and Mel Brooks(the author of world war z) actually put the word otaku into his book.

I know its not and i have the book and its pretty much impossible to make a game from it but you know.

A remake of The Hobbit. Seriously, the game I played on PS2 (although I liked it decently) isn't as good as the other Tolkien games (Two Towers and Return of the King) I have on Gamecube.

Metro 2033. Oh wait...

George Martin a song of ice and fire series would make an awesome rpg

Something based on Starship Troopers.

The book,not the crappy movie.

I would like a Salvatore Dark elf game but my expectations would be so high I don't now if it could live up to it. (oblivion style but way larger and better)

War of the Worlds.

Yandere

That's not a book... that's a movie!!

:P

And I'd say The Neverending Story... but that's also a movie.

The Oddysey??

George Martin a song of ice and fire series would make an awesome rpg

kendrene

I completely agree. I'm reading the first book right now and damn is it good. But I think this series was the chief inspiration behind dragon age.

And I think any of the series by chinese novelist Jin Yong(don't know his english name, someone should know who I'm talking about) could be made into a high budget game. All of them are like Lord of the Rings minus 90% of the fantasy creatures, there's still some fantasy creatures in the stories however.

A game taking place in 1984's setting.

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King would be perfect imo. Epic story with crazy amazing twists along with some serious gunplay.

For some reason i read the title as "what boobs would you like to see made into games?". I think i need to wake up a bit more... Sadly i cant think of any books now...

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Redwall - The game could have a lot of the mechanics of The Legend of Zelda/Prince of Persia. Journey on adventure that spans all over the Redwall area.

Redwall Battlefront - Take control of a Long Patrol Hare, an Abbey Mouse, an Otter or even a Badger, all controlling quite differently. Defend the Abbey from constant attacks and participate in giant battles everywhere. More of a SW: Battlefront/LotR: Conquest game.

White_wolf_eye

Even if they aren't the best books in the world, they'd make an excellent game. Zassimick's idea is excellent IMO.

marvel zombies :3 now thatd be epic IMO

I really enjoyed "House of Leaves" by Mark Z Danielewski and have seen it's influence in a few games, notably an adventure game '5 days a stranger'. I've seen games almost entirely based off of "dice man" by Luke Rhinehart, a character that initiates his actions based on random rolls of a dice. I'd imagine books impact the developers of most games as storylines are plucked from other media.

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King would be perfect imo. Epic story with crazy amazing twists along with some serious gunplay.

nosedive7

1984's universe, maybe make a shooter set in the constant wars, put have levels where you go back to the city and get to explore.bobbetybob

You know you'd play a mario choose your own adventure game.

um.......i got nothing the closest thing to a book ive ever read is a mangamurat8

[QUOTE="bobbetybob"]1984's universe, maybe make a shooter set in the constant wars, put have levels where you go back to the city and get to explore.ZuluEcho14

um.......i got nothing the closest thing to a book ive ever read is a mangamurat8

[QUOTE="murat8"]um.......i got nothing the closest thing to a book ive ever read is a mangaohthemanatee