The Worst Movie Tie-In Games In 2 Minutes

Fred Durst is awesome.

The worst movie tie-in I've ever played was probably The Phantom Menace. Wave after wave of the same stupid droids wandering aimlessly about over ugly, bland environments. Game was so awful, I took it back to the rental shop before I needed to.

There were a couple of SNES games I liked at the time, but have no idea how well they would hold up: Batman Returns, Jurassic Park, and True Lies to name a few.

the 1989 batman movie game was good. hard as hell, but most games back then were.

funny enough most movies based on a game suck too. Mario, double dragon, street fighter etc...

I'd love to see this vid followed up with the best tie ins in two minutes. That'd be cool.

i can't believe i'm even saying this but i actually thought the 1st two harry potter games were pretty good

X-men: Origins Wolverine was kinda fun to play. The story made absolutely no sense if you hadn't seen the film but mechanically, it played pretty well. It was good to see wolverine actually get some blood on his claws & the game really celebrated his brutal combat style without trying to get a G rating.

The very recent Mad Max was fun too. Not the most innovative game but far from the disastrous movie games we're used to.

Evil Dead Regeneration for the PS2 was a good laugh. Its shortcomings were overridden by Bruce Campbell's awesomeness. The Thing was pretty good too.
GTA Vice City was pretty much just Scarface the unofficial game.

I think it's a case in point that I haven't heard of a lot of these games. I read that the Harry Potter tie-ins were particularly bad.

One movie tie-in that didn't ride the coattails of its movie counterpart was Goldeneye. It was released in 1997 while the movie was out in 1995, so it had to stand on its own, and it stood very well.

In a point of contention for ET on Atari 2600: It was never proven the games were buried due to the failure of ET (that's a urban myth). In fact it was proven that Atari games were just buried there in general and it had nothing to do with the failure of ET.

You can see the documentary which proved this on Netflix or XBOX one.

It's also interesting to note that ET for Atari 2600, while not a particularly interesting game, is not that bad a game in comparison to so many other bad movie tie in, or otherwise terrible, video games made over the past 30 years.

alien isolation was really good.

I think it's hard to find a better movie tie-in than The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. In its day, the game was pretty amazing. It was a shooter, an adventure game, and even a little bit RPG. Ultimately, it felt like a genuine Riddick experience.

My other favorite movie-based game is The Matrix: Path of Neo. The combat in that game both looked and felt good. There were lots of unique set pieces, and it even had a unique way of deciding your difficulty level shortly after you start playing. I think I may have written a review for it on Gamespot several years back, as I felt the GS score wasn't representative of the actual game experience.

Enter the Matrix on the first xbox was quite fun. Alien 3 on the megadrive.