By Emma Boyle
Once there was a time when pretty much every major movie release had some kind of video game tie-in. You probably remember the thrill of going to see a film you love and then being able to go and pick up its accompanying game to take home and stretch out your new obsession over the weekend.
I recall insisting on making an entire day out of going to see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the first time at the cinema and then buying the game to take home and play so that the magic never had to end.
The problem was that many of these tie-ins tended to not be very good. There are a number of exceptions (one of which I wrote about in this very column only last week) but the restrictions applied to creating them made it very difficult to produce something high quality.
Movie magic
Tight deadlines arising from the need for release dates to overlap with the silver screen experience, combined with expensive licensing and budgets limited to ensure high profits, meant many of tie-in titles ended up feeling like cheap rush jobs designed to milk the cinematic cash cows for all …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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