Oh, Movie Games....

Ok, kids, let me just get right to it. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (the video game, of course) is freaking ridiculous! This game is how the movie should have been. I'm tired of Hollywood studio executives and their skewed view on what should get made and how it should be made. I'm beginning to think that they just want to market a product without actually making it playable. Its almost like they assume that we, the consumer, will just buy any product that get tagged along with a movie release. "Hmmmm, let's make a a game out of this movie, but we only have like a year, but it needs to come out". Its almost like they're saying, "let's just completely forget about QA because we have a deadline to meet". Thats exactly what happened to E.T. for the Atari 2600. It was made in six short weeks. Why? because this "new-fangled video game console" was out and this movie just had to have a video game tie-in. In short, people hated it. Every copy of that game that did not sell in stores, is currently buried somewhere in the New Mexico desert. I guess the bottom-line is, all movie games don't have to suck so bad. If someone would just take a minute to think about the fans and the thousands of people you're disappointing by releasing a terribly made, "zip through QA", complete massacre of a film adaptation. Maybe you would sell more copies if you just gave a little extra, Hollywood game developers.

Oh, and, Wolverine? you and Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay are now the only two movie games that dont suck complete ass. Yeah, I'm talking to you, Prince Caspian...

-JD