Humanities Homework Help
Films based on a Videogame Presentation
Do two slides for each of the following questions, consider (three or more) films based on a videogame:
1. To what extent do the films use (or deviate from) the game plot?
2. Are their central characters essentially the same as those in the ludic model?
Selected listicles to get you started:
Films:
Kayleena Pierce-Bohen, “10 Video Game Adaptations You Didn’t Know Might Be Coming In 2021 (Links to an external site.)” Screen Rant (Jun 15, 2020)
Luke Harkness, “The 10 Best Movies based on Video Games (Links to an external site.)“, Voolas (March 24, 2020)
Meghan Cook, “Popular movies inspired by video games, ranked from worst to best (Links to an external site.)” Insider (Feb 14, 2020)
SC Lannon, “10 Best Video Games Movies (Links to an external site.)” Studio Binder (Oct 24, 2019)
John Sciarrino, “The 20 Best Movies based on Video Games, Ranked (Links to an external site.)” Maxim (Apr 16, 2018)
& more: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000830173/
Gmaes:
Jacob Roach, “The best video games based on movies (Links to an external site.)“, Digitaltrends (Jan 28, 2021)
Matt Rao, “Games That Are Based On Movies (Links to an external site.)“, Guru Gamer (Jun 22, 2020)
Jason Wojnar, “10 Movie-Based Video Games (that are better than the movie) (Links to an external site.)” Game Rant (Nov 18, 2019) (Links to an external site.)
Jason Bleau, “Top 10 Video Games Based on Movies (Links to an external site.)” Cinema Spotlight (Aug 6, 2019)
James Holland, “7 Horrible Games Based On Movies (And 8 That Were Actually Good) (Links to an external site.)” The Gamer (Aug 3, 2017)
