Comments on: Just stop it. Really. Please? Just stop! http://www.wayiplay.com/2005/06/02/just-stop-it-really-please-just-stop/ Video Game News, Reviews, and Rants Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:46:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: beuks http://www.wayiplay.com/2005/06/02/just-stop-it-really-please-just-stop/#comment-13 beuks Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:56:08 +0000 http://www.wayiplay.com/a-47-danger/2005/06/02/just-stop-it-really-please-just-stop/#comment-13 Sadly, Jaws Unleashed is part of a larger pattern in current games of mining older movies for their videogamability. Witness The Godfather, The Warriors, The Great Escape, Scarface, and From Russia With Love. I'm genuinely excited about the latter, and don't give enough of a shit about the Warriors to feel one way or the other. Scarface can only be less fun than GTA Vice City, and turning The Godfather into a video game is an abomination unto the Lord. Let's make some predictions. What old movies will be turned into video games? I'm asking for serious predictions, so save "Ernest Scared Stupid" for another time. Mine: Chinatown The French Connection Bullitt Dirty Harry or The Good the Bad and the Ugly or The Outlaw Josey Wales Sadly, Jaws Unleashed is part of a larger pattern in current games of mining older movies for their videogamability. Witness The Godfather, The Warriors, The Great Escape, Scarface, and From Russia With Love. I’m genuinely excited about the latter, and don’t give enough of a shit about the Warriors to feel one way or the other. Scarface can only be less fun than GTA Vice City, and turning The Godfather into a video game is an abomination unto the Lord.

Let’s make some predictions. What old movies will be turned into video games? I’m asking for serious predictions, so save “Ernest Scared Stupid” for another time.

Mine:
Chinatown
The French Connection
Bullitt
Dirty Harry or The Good the Bad and the Ugly or The Outlaw Josey Wales

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