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Stockstar1138 said:
Rock_on_2008 said:
Video game based movies always flop. Remember the disasters that were Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tom Raider, Mario Brothers, etc.
I do not hold my breath for a successful BioShock movie.

only one of the above actually has a story that can be made into a full length movie without seriously adding stuff into the plot of the movie from the game. bioshock has everything story wise to go straight from a game to a movie, where the others do not.


I know this will put me at odds with most people, but I couldn't disagree with this statement more. Bioshock had a great scenario, but it had very little in the way of story. The actual game story can be summed up thusly:

Plane crash - follow orders (fetch quests) - blatently obvious twist - kill fake bad guy - follow someone else's orders (more fetch quests) - kill real bad guy - end (good/bad)

There was some back story about the creation of Rapture on the tapes, but absolutely nothing about the character you played, other than finding out that you were a Manchurian candidate (completely eliminating the need for character motivation). Just like every other game-movie adaptation ever made, it will definitely not translate to a good film narrative. I almost wish Uwe Boll was directing it, then at least people wouldn't get their hopes up.