From GoldenEye to South Park: 10 of the best video games based on films and TV shows
by Luke Holland from Technology | The Guardian on (#5PCAF)
Taking the greatest bits of their source material, these games allow players to enter the worlds they love via epic lightsaber battles and balletic flights of fancy
While TV shows and movies adapted from games remain, generally, rubbish, there is no such curse the other way round. This seminal James Bond tie-in is the best example, showing that first-person shooters - previously the esoteric concern of hefty PCs - could excel on consoles. Its four-player split screen also taught an entire generation how to swear wholeheartedly at their peers. And to settle it once and for all: Oddjob is too small. Therefore playing as him is definitely - definitely - cheating.
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