some of the Resident Evil movies are actually pretty damn good
specifically the first one (Resident Evil) and Resident Evil: Afterlife were both pretty good in my opinion. they felt 'right' compared to the games
just commenting on that since the OP mentioned them
in terms of an Assassin Creed movie. I would say that the AC universe sort of lends itself to Hollywood which is good and bad. good because it seems like a property that wouldn't be that hard to adapt to film (action adventure with unique time periods) but bad in the sense of there have been a LOT of movies already in the past with similar plots to Assassin's Creed. i.e., hero is teleported to a unique time period in which he attempts to stop some sort of evil group or plot
I'm hesistantly curious. the Prince of Persia movie adaption sort of speaks volumes to the fact that even if you a video game property that seems like it would be well suited for film that it can go terribly wrong
the problem is I think in production of a video game related film a lot of production companies can feel too obligated too closely connect it to the actual game plots OR they're so comfortable with knowing that they have a video game built in audience to go see it, that they half ass it
sort of backwards, but a fun thing to bring up, is how 007 Goldeneye was a film and then an amazingly adopted video game (the game is so incredibly true to the film and it just really really works).
obviously this is backwards. I do feel like often it seems HARDER to adapt a video game property to film than the other way around. more often we see good movies translated into good games
