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Gaming News Details5/7/08- How to Make Better Game Adaptations
by Chris "Pip the Intern" Holt I hope Iron Man is good. I hope it lives up to the hype and is not another poor adaptation of a comic book icon. I’m not referring to the movie. I’m referring to the recently released Iron Man video game. There have been many articles written about video game and comic book film adaptations, but I’ve noticed there are very few discussions about what makes a decent game adaptation of a movie. Why do we expect so little of game adaptations? Can the game ever be better than the movie? In order to make game adaptations of movies better, here are my humble guidelines… 1. Start development earlier. Let’s assume, for the purposes of this article, that games take as long to develop as movies. This may seem like a big leap of faith, but big budget movies are planned years in advance. Marvel recently announced their calendar of movies that will be released in the coming years, and if they’re smart, they’ll have developers starting on the gaming projects now. Sure, the "Thor" movie might bomb but if you hired a decent game development team, maybe you could make a great game.
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