Well, we love movies and we love games. Which is why we’ve rounded up the 10 best movies based on famous games. They include everything from the zombie action of Resident Evil to the fluffiest Pokémon detective.
It seems that games and feature films are often two worlds that don’t want to get along. To say the least, our gamer hearts have been consistently filled with disappointment in the past when Hollywood has tried to ride the wave of success of popular gaming brands. Still, here and there they appear: those cinematic bright spots that can inspire us just as much as their gaming originals.
The adaptation of one of the most popular game franchises, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, is in the starting blocks and will once again fuel the eternal discussion about good and bad video game adaptations. Therefore, in the Gazettely editorial team, we decided to sit down together and ask ourselves the question: Which movies based on video game are actually the best? Or rather, which ones got us the least excited?
We came up with a list of 10 films that are based on games, all of which were fascinating, captivating, scary, or simply excellently entertaining in their own way. We have restricted ourselves to live-action films and ignored animated movies and series (even if there are excellent adaptations such as Castlevania and Arcane) for this ranking. Have fun browsing through our ranking. What do your top lists look like?
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The Pokémon Master Detective Pikachu is the cinematic adaptation of one of the world’s best-selling franchises. The movie strikes the right balance, however, to draw in veteran fans and non-connoisseurs alike. Sophisticated worldbuilding enables us to immerse ourselves in a captivating world that recreates the feeling that the original has been conveying for 25 years.
We ourselves become collectors who want to find the 60 different and photo-realistically animated Pokémon types – some of which are very well hidden in the busy world of Ryme City. Master detective Pikachu makes us experience what it would be like if Pokémon were actually real.
However, the heart of the film is the relationship between human boy Tim and the coffee-addicted and talking Pikachu, as their friendship guides us through what is, for the series, both an unusual and unexpectedly compact and fast-paced mystery-conspiracy story taking place in the Pokémon universe. Yes, Pokémon: Master Detective Pikachu is among the best video game adaptations of all time, surpassed only by two.
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