Only in the near past we noticed the anniversary of The Mummy Demastered, an instance of an amazing sport based mostly on essentially the most mediocre of flicks. Traditionally, licensed video games — normally film tie-ins — have not loved the very best of reputations attributable to them usually being rush jobs thrown collectively on a shoestring by an under-resourced developer crunching their socks off to make the film’s launch date and, presumably, capitalise on some cross-media advertising synergy and whatnot.
After all, there are video games like GoldenEye 007 that arrived spectacularly late (21 months after the film!) and proved {that a} high quality sport can stand by itself two ft, however regardless of a common enchancment in high quality in relation to licensed video games on consoles, there’s nonetheless a stigma round them. Licensed video games are dangerous is the prevailing mindset, even when ‘common’ could be a extra applicable adjective.
