I’ve voiced my enthusiasm for THE LAST AIRBENDER movie in the past and, if I did own a Wii (and I insist on calling it the WHEEEEEE!), I’d seriously think about picking the official game up. Normally, when they do a licensed game like this, the incorporation of the nunchuk seems like an afterthought (and as a pinchuk, I know all about the nunchuks). Here, however, it makes a whole lot of sense to use that magic wand to simulate what it’s like to bend the elements right in front of you. The graphics in the official trailer aren’t that snazzy, but that’s never really been a selling point for Nintendo’s latest console anyway.
I do think it’s an interesting conceit to be able to play as both the game from both the hero and villain’s perspective. The last game I can think of that allowed you to do that was the REVENGE OF THE SITH game, although the execution, admittedly, wasn’t as good as it could been. I must admit, too, that I got some special amusement out of the rhetoric from THQ’s official press release. I realize that bending is what these element-masters do - - I do, I do, I do - -but the prospect of being “immersed in the world of bending” immediately makes me think of Futurama and Mr. Bender B. Rodriguez. That and trying to so how low I can get under the limbo stick.
Not "entirely" true. The spider-man tie ins grew to be better than the movies (which became steadily easier *zing*)
and... umm...
Hold on, I'm sure i'll come up with another example, eventually...
Lego Star Wars/Indiana Jones?
Okay, so qualifier, can we use anything based off of a movie, or does it have to be one of these "almost identical release calander"
And no, i don't count the Lego games encase they where never rushed through development to co-inside with the release of a movie. They had time to be developed as a cool game that was made to thematically fit a movie series.
Oh man... because it suddenly occurred to me that Goldeneye and Chronicles of Riddick were both significantly better than their movies.
Though, I have to admit, while looking around, I came across this...
Which, granted, I own, but is the greatest pinball machine ever.