Return of the King Is still one of the best Movie Tie in games I’ve played to this day

Imagine thinking that Tolkien didn't write Lord of the Rings to make a fighting PS2 game in 2002 and writing an article 20+ years after it's release thinking it's a clever thought. That game is master piece!

I'll write a piece about how the 2004 PS2 game: The Polar Express misses the point of Christmas and collect my pay check.

If you want a game that uses movie clips and proceeds to butcher the original movie plot and atmosphere, try the old Fifth Element game. It's amazing, they took bits of the movie and used them to make a weird new cut that completely changes character motivations, adds huge plot holes and mess with the order of events.

For example : the game starts as Korben (at that point just a taxi driver) saves the lab where Leeloo is being revived (also random mutants freeing themselves from capsules).

In turn, Leeloo then saves Korben that's been arrested by the police (you know that "meat popsicle" bit? They've recut it so it looks like Korben got arrested).

Leeloo then spends about half the game in her strap suit from the lab, instead of like 3 minutes. Just because they took the iconic plunge into Korben's taxi scene to use it way later, in a random subplot they added, and she needed to be dressed like that because that's how she is in the movie clip.

Which also means that in the game's plot, her falling right on Korben's taxi was somehow intended, and not how they met.

Many other examples of scenes that were reinterpreted like that to create new subplots, like that one time Zorg blows up a phone booth to kill an incompetent henchman becomes a terrorist attack on the spaceport with a dozen of exploding booths.

This and Return of the King were my jam in middle school! I’d rather kick orc ladders in Helms Deep, or save Minas Tirith as Gimly than whatever the fuck that Gollum game was.

Tldr but 2 towers game was dope