Summary

• Video game movie adaptations often struggle to capture the essence of the games, leading to disappointing results.
• Some films, like Alone In The Dark and Monster Hunter, drastically deviate from the source material, losing the essence of the games.
• Even when faithful to the games, movies like Resident Evil create their own stories, showing that accuracy doesn't always guarantee success.

Video game movie adaptations don’t have the best reputation. This can be attributed to sever🃏al factors, fro♋m poor writing to bad acting to lackluster budgets. However, no matter how high the quality of the film, there is an inherent difference between playing a game and watching a movie.

The effect of this principle is that faithful adaptations don’t always transfer well to the big screen. Sometimes, even movies that strive to follow what came before, fail to have the same impa🔜ct when the agency of being able to play through them is lost.

These films are🦄 being rated based on their accuracy to the source material, not their overall quality.

11 Alo🍸ne In The Dar𓃲k

Many modern survival horror series can trace their roots back to 1992’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alone in the Dark. The movie adaptationꦡ of the same name is remembered a lot less fondly.

Directed by Uwe Boll, Alone In the Dark is a disaster in many differenꦓt ways, as is evidenced by its pitiful Rotten Tomatoes score of just one percent. However, aside from all of its other major shortcomings, the movie also fails as an adaptation. Abandoning scares for bizarrely over-the-top action, Alone in the Dark shares next to nothing in common with the series that helped start survival horror.

10 ♐ ꦡ Monster Hunter

The Capcom series 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Monster Hunter is a fantastic set of action games about taking down massive creatures in the wild. Many of the titles have narratives, but they are overshadowed by the exciting hunts that players can embark on alone, or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:with their friends. This makes it all the more bizarre 🗹that a film adaption of the games was created in the first place.

Starting in the real world, the film stars Milla Jovovich as a military commando who enters a monster-filled o𝓀ther world along with the rest of her squad. These creature🦋s follow her back to Earth, where they proceed to wreak havoc and destruction. Aside from the visual designs of the monsters and weapons, which are admittedly impressive, the movie adaption follows nothing of what made the games so iconic.

9 Doom

The name Doom is synonymous with the shooter genre, and with good reason. Ever since its first entry back in 1993, the series has offered gamers violent, demon-slaughtering goodness. But in terms of story, the series has largely kept things light in favor of focuꩲsing on the action. Despite what little details are given, 2005’s Doom movie contradicts it.

Starring prominent actors like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Karl Urban, the film decides to give the invaders of the interstellar base a different origin story. Rather than have them be demons from Hell, the monsters of 2005’s Doom are zombified mutants. The film does have its fair share of references to Doom lore with some of the character's names. However, it largely breaks away from the established story. Save for one action sequence filmed in first person as an homage to the series' perspective.

8 Postal

One of the most controversial video game series of all time, the Postal games are known most for their crudꩲe humor and wanton violence. The games follow the aptly named Postal Dude whose activities range from mass murdering, literally battling his inner demons, and completing his weekly chores in a town on the brink of insanity.

The Postal film, starring Zack Ward in the leading role, bases itself on the antics of the second game. Largely going in its own direction in terms of story, the movie does embody many of the general themes that helped Postal acquire its notorious reputation. Thi꧙ngs get especially accurate at the end of the film, with the protagonist going on a rampage. But, leading up to that, the film is a collection of crass humor and offensive jokes.

7 ☂ Sonic The Hedgehog ♔

Sega’s Sonic series has covered a lot of ground in its decades-long run. This is fitting considering how speedy the mainline hedgehog is.𝄹 But none of his many adventures ever panned out quite like the movie did. Sonic has established a lore over the years involving ancient civilizations, magical items, and visitors from otheไr worlds.

However, the movie opted not to follow any of these plotlines in favor of creating its own version of events. Sonic&rsqu꧟o;s happy-go-lucky attitude, and Jim Carrey’s wonderfully manic portrayal of Dr. Robotnik, makes the movie fit in with the themes of the series. As an adaptation, it borrows only scraps from the source material.

6 ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Resident Evil (Series)🦋

Few gaming series have managed to keep themselves relevant for as long as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Resident Evil has. With its debut t🧔itle back in 1996, Resident Evil has frightened and entertained players for decades now. Though the canon for the series is expansive, many of the games revolve around the Umbrella Corporation, a♋nd their tendency to dabble in dangerous experiments that turn victims into zombies or mutated weapons.

Despite having an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:iconic line-up of protagonists, t𒐪he film versions of Resident Evil instead decided to create their own lead character, Alice. The films exist as a strange anomaly, occasionally opting to stay close to the source material with the introduction of characters like Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera, along with an extremely accurate depiction of the deadly Nemesis B.O.W. For the most part, the films pursue their own stories, while throwing in the odd detail from the games.

5 Uncharted

Between 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Uncharted and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Naughty Dog has proven itself extremely capable when crafting narrative 𓆉gaming experiences. The former of the two series, Uncharted, follows Nathan Drake on his various quests for treasure, which take him across the globe. Each game is filled with bombastic, cinematic set pieces that already feel as though they were made for the big screen.

A point that the director Ruben Fleischer seemed to agree with as the 2022 film starring Tom Holland, recaptured the adventurous spirit maintained 💮by the games. Even still, many details from the game were altered, including Nathan’s age, as well a few of his important relationships, partiucarly that of his friend Sully.

4 Max Payne

Rockstar’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Max Payne series is a departure from the open-world epics like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Grand Theft Auto and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red Dead Redemption that the studio is well known for. These linear action games follo🥀w the former cop, Max Payne, as he fights 𓂃his way through a seedy underworld riddled with crime.

Thematically, the movie carries over a lot of the game’s gritty atmosphere, and Mark Wahlberg gives a solid portrayal of the vengeful Max Payne. Some details are altered from the game's story, which makes Max Payne cover odd territory between faithful adaptation, and going its own way.

3 🍒 Silent ❀Hill

Konami’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Silent Hill series has produced some of the scariest gaming experiences of all time. Mostly taking place in a town with the same name, Silent Hill explores concepts of punishment and grief through frightening visuals and stella𒆙r writing. In 2006, a film version was created to see if the same themes could be brought to the big screen.

Silent Hill (2006) brings the atmospheric horror of the games to life, with a tale of suffering and woe that embodies the ideas of the series well. During this dark journey, some familiar faces pop up, like the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:notorious Pyramid Head.

2 Five Nightওs At Freddy’s ♓

The pop culture phenomenon, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Five Nights At Freddy’s took the internet by storm with its jum🌼p scares and deep lore. Starting as a video game, the series has since dabbled in other media, like books and graphic novels. It wasn’t until 2023 that the series hit the silver screen.

Five Nights At Freddy’s had its work cut out for it in trying to adapt years' worth of purposefully vague details into a digestible plot. The animatronics look as though they were pulled right from the game, and while some new characters and plot threads were introduced, the movie succesfully brought many of the game’s ideas to life.