Battle: Los Angeles Game Can Only Kill An Hour Or So

[Cpu46]

This makes me sad, having seen Battle LA today I seriously thought about how great a game tie in could have been.

 

[WolfThomas]

Here in Australia, ticket prices tend to be over $20AUD.

Where the heck are you going to the cinema? The most expensive I've paid is $15AUD, mostly $10-12. When I was in Brisbane, it was common for cinemas to charge only around $6.

 

[Rayne870]

sucktastic

 

[Uncle_Brainhorn]

I played the demo. It's bad. Really bad.

 

[Baralak]

Movie tickets for me at $6.50 after tax, $12 for 3d, here in the state of Virginia.

Also, Jebus Crispy this game seems like it's just all around bad.

 

[Jadak]

It's not about the shiny tech, or devices beyond our comprehension. It's about the destructive, gritty, desperate, and heartless enviroment that is war. It's also a bitchin' Marines recruitment ad.

For me, that was the problem. It was just like any other warzone movie following some marines around. I didn't hate it like some people seem to have, it was an alright movie, but I wanted a sci-fi film, a new Independence Day, this doesn't qualify.

 

[Realitycrash]

Lesson someone should have learned way long ago: Don't buy movie-tie-ins.
They are always, and I mean ALWAYS, bad.

In fact, I challenge you; Find me one that doesn't suck, that left a half-decent impression AND made an impact at gaming overall.

 

[Evilsanta]

Wow...How could anyone actully want to be associeted with that game? I would be to emberresd even to put my name on the credits.

 

[Everin]

Here in Australia, ticket prices tend to be over $20AUD.

What?! Where do you go to see movies? I get to see movies for something like $16. Where ever you are going has incredibly high prices...

 

[stuhacking]

This makes me sad, having seen Battle LA today I seriously thought about how great a game tie in could have been.

When I saw it my first thought was: "I could really play a lot of 'Modern Warfare: Alien Invasion'... but only if it were made by Infinity Ward."

 

[Trogdor1138]

Wasn't this site posting articles about how surprisingly good the game looked recently? This doesn't come as any surprise to me, nor does it come as a surprise the movie is getting a bad response. It looked mediocore and it's another example where they want huge opening numbers and hype before you realize you've been conned.

 

[putowtin]

$10 an hour? Sounds about like Call of Duty: Black Ops if you don't care about multiplayer!

Somewhere in the world as you typed that a CoD fan boy wept!

 

[RA92]

Dude, anything was better than Skyline.

I kindly disagree.

http://nissan-skyline-gtr.com/r34/nissan-skyline-r34-v-spec.jpg

 

[Trogdor1138]

Lesson someone should have learned way long ago: Don't buy movie-tie-ins.
They are always, and I mean ALWAYS, bad.

In fact, I challenge you; Find me one that doesn't suck, that left a half-decent impression AND made an impact at gaming overall.

I am obligated to mention Goldeneye, your challenge is completed. It fits your criteria.

 

[Realitycrash]

Lesson someone should have learned way long ago: Don't buy movie-tie-ins.
They are always, and I mean ALWAYS, bad.

In fact, I challenge you; Find me one that doesn't suck, that left a half-decent impression AND made an impact at gaming overall.

I am obligated to mention Goldeneye, your challenge is completed. It fits your criteria.

Thanks for playing! However, your argument is invalid.
Was it a great game? Sure.
Did it make an impact? Like hell.
Was it a movie tie-in? No.

Sure, it is based on the movie, but movie tie-ins are rushed in production to be released within the same month (or at least very close) as the movie, to make as much money possible of the hype. Goldeneye, the movie, came November 1995, while the game came a whooping two years later, in August 1997. That's PLENTY of time to develop an awesome game based on a movie.

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye_007 - The Game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye - The Movie

 

[Trogdor1138]

Lesson someone should have learned way long ago: Don't buy movie-tie-ins.
They are always, and I mean ALWAYS, bad.

In fact, I challenge you; Find me one that doesn't suck, that left a half-decent impression AND made an impact at gaming overall.

I am obligated to mention Goldeneye, your challenge is completed. It fits your criteria.

Thanks for playing! However, your argument is invalid.
Was it a great game? Sure.
Did it make an impact? Like hell.
Was it a movie tie-in? No.

Sure, it is based on the movie, but movie tie-ins are rushed in production to be released within the same month (or at least very close) as the movie, to make as much money possible of the hype. Goldeneye, the movie, came November 1995, while the game came a whooping two years later, in August 1997. That's PLENTY of time to develop an awesome game based on a movie.

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye_007 - The Game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye - The Movie

Oh okay, I thought you might have meant tie-in as in just movie games in general, I was going to mention but didn't bother, my mistake.

Well... I can think of some pretty swanky ones, but I can't think of any that made a big impact on the industry. They don't always need to of course, but it would be nice to have one someday... Someday...

 

[Vrex360]

Wow, really? That's how short the game is?
If that had costed like, five dollars and was used to market the film maybe that would have been acceptable.

Also as a note, I haven't yet seen the movie (can't, I live in Australia so I have to wait until next week) and although there have been some negative criticisms, they mostly stem from standard 'cliche plot' and 'one dimensional characters', all of which doesn't matter because I don't go to see an alien invasion war movie because I'm looking for great real three dimensional characterization worthy of Shakespeare.
I'm here to see aliens wreck some shit up. And from word of mouth, it seems that Battle Los Angeles delivers. So I'm still going to wait until I see it for myself before I make up my mind.

Thats worse than Rogue Warrior. I saw that movie today, not the worse movie ever. In a nutshell the plot is exactly how that guy said it. Still better than Skyline.

Dude, anything was better than Skyline.

A movie could pour super powerful radiation into the cinema from the screen that causes flesh to burn and eyes to melt and it would still be favorable to Skyline.

 

[Realitycrash]

Lesson someone should have learned way long ago: Don't buy movie-tie-ins.
They are always, and I mean ALWAYS, bad.

In fact, I challenge you; Find me one that doesn't suck, that left a half-decent impression AND made an impact at gaming overall.

I am obligated to mention Goldeneye, your challenge is completed. It fits your criteria.

Thanks for playing! However, your argument is invalid.
Was it a great game? Sure.
Did it make an impact? Like hell.
Was it a movie tie-in? No.

Sure, it is based on the movie, but movie tie-ins are rushed in production to be released within the same month (or at least very close) as the movie, to make as much money possible of the hype. Goldeneye, the movie, came November 1995, while the game came a whooping two years later, in August 1997. That's PLENTY of time to develop an awesome game based on a movie.

Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye_007 - The Game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye - The Movie

Oh okay, I thought you might have meant tie-in as in just movie games in general, I was going to mention but didn't bother, my mistake.

Well... I can think of some pretty swanky ones, but I can't think of any that made a big impact on the industry. They don't always need to of course, but it would be nice to have one someday... Someday...

I heard that the latest Transformer-movie-tie-in-game wasn't completely horrible?