10 Movie Franchises That Should Be Adapted Into LEGO Video Games
10 Movie Franchises That Should Be Adapted Into LEGO Video Games
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From Harry Potter to Indiana Jones, tons of major movie franchises have been given the LEGO video game treatment. Which blockbusters should join them?
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After the success of the Lego Star Wars games, Traveller’s Tales has turned a bunch of other movie franchises into Lego games: Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Batman, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Avengers, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Jurassic Park — the list goes on. The games haven’t all been perfect, but it’s always fun to play as iconic characters in Lego form and recreate the stories of popular blockbusters.
While there are already plenty of Lego games adapted from movie franchises, there are plenty of others out there that would also make great Lego games if TT could secure the licensing.
10 Star Trek
The vast universe of Star Trek TV shows and movies would allow for even more playable characters than Lego Star Wars. A Lego Star Trek game could draw stories from all the Trek series, including some plot elements from the Kelvin timeline (TT Fusion already nailed J.J. Abrams’ lens flares in the space battles of Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens).
Plus, the game would be full of iconic vehicles like the Enterprise and the Voyager and its hub would include both a futuristic Earth and a sprawling cosmos filled with otherworldly alien planets like Vulcan and Klingon — not to mention the Holodeck!
9 Shrek
The fairytale-inspired storytelling of the Shrek movies is objective-driven — save the princess from the tower or steal the love potion from the Fairy Godmother — which is ideal for gaming.
A lot of Lego games suffer in multiplayer mode because one player is stuck with an uninteresting character. In Lego Indiana Jones, one person gets to be Indy and the other has to be Satipo. In Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, one person gets to be Jack Sparrow and the other has to be Mr. Gibbs. Shrek’s abundance of lovable supporting characters like Donkey and Puss in Boots would prevent this from happening. The difficulty would be choosing just one.
8 Die Hard
Five movies are the perfect amount to flesh out into a substantial Lego game’s worth of story mode levels. Even the worst Die Hard movies — namely A Good Day to Die Hard — have set pieces that would be fun to play through in Lego form, like sliding down the debris funnel on a construction site or crashing a helicopter into Chernobyl.
There might be an issue when it comes to multiplayer because John McClane is a lone wolf, but if TT can find a creative way to adapt the first movie, like placing Powell inside Nakatomi Plaza with McClane instead of being down on the ground, the rest of the movies have sidekicks, and one of them is a younger, stronger McClane.
7 Ghostbusters
2009’s Ghostbusters: The Video Game proved that a video game in which players get to be a Ghostbuster can be a slam dunk if it’s done right. Imagine that classic game, but all the characters and the Ectomobile and the firehouse and New York City and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man are all made of Lego.
Between Ivan Reitman’s original movies, the all-female 2016 reboot, and Jason Reitman’s new reboot Afterlife, the Ghostbusters franchise has more than enough characters and story material to make up a decent Lego game.
6 James Bond
The globe-trotting adventures of James Bond have made for plenty of riveting video games. If TT can recapture the sheer fun of GoldenEye 007’s action while poking fun at the Bond mythos in the same parodic manner as the Lego Batman games’ playful jabs at the Caped Crusader, it could result in one of the best Lego games yet.
TT couldn’t possibly hope to adapt all 25 Bond movies into a game — it would have over 100 levels — but maybe it could adapt one movie for each Bond actor.
5 Planet Of The Apes
A Lego Planet of the Apes game could possibly be split between the apes’ rise to power as seen in the recently released prequel trilogy and the future ape society presented in the older classics, but it doesn’t need to follow the movies’ plots to a tee.
It can simply be a Lego game following some astronaut characters as they land on a weird futuristic Earth run by intelligent apes, and the story can loosely string together the most memorable moments from the movies.
4 Alien
There would be a lot of fun to be had in a Lego Alien video game, like playable xenomorphs (to match Lego Jurassic World’s playable dinosaurs) and crazy weapons like Ripley’s flamethrower and the Colonial Marines’ giant machine guns. The animators can have fun coming up with child-friendly versions of iconic moments like the chestburster and “Get away from her, you b**ch!”
H.R. Giger’s haunting designs might weirdly work really well with a Lego makeover. The gloomy aesthetic of the Lego Harry Potter games was a refreshing change of pace.
3 Toy Story
The size of the human world relative to toys and the sequences that visualize Andy’s imagination would make a Lego Toy Story game a lot of fun. The hub could be Andy’s room.
The franchise’s huge ensemble cast would ensure players had plenty of playable characters to choose from.
2 Terminator
Playing as an invincible Terminator would be as much fun as playing as the Man of Steel in the Lego Batman sequels, while human heroes like Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese would also make great playable characters.
In order to switch between the ‘80s, ‘90s, present-day, dystopian future, and alternate dystopian future settings of the movies, players could jump back and forth through a time portal (bending the franchise’s famous one-way time travel rule for the purposes of creating an easy-to-navigate hub, which are in short supply in Lego games).
1 John Wick
Most Lego Indiana Jones games are essentially beat-‘em-ups in which players are faced with legions of Nazi/Soviet/Thuggee henchmen and have to kill them in quick succession. The fact that the characters are all made of plastic bricks makes the violence cartoonish and comical.
The nonstop fight scenes and operatic ultraviolence of the John Wick franchise are crying out to receive this treatment. However, Lego John Wick would need to avoid Lego Indiana Jones’ annoying limited ammo. Baba Yaga can reload a firearm so quickly that he might as well have unlimited ammo.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/blockbuster-movie-franchises-deserve-lego-video-game-treatment/
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