Sonic 3 debuts with 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, tied for highest rated video game movie to date

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Here are the top video game adaptations by Rotten Tomatoes score (only including adaptations with a significant number of reviews):

Films

1. Sonic 3- 86% (tie)
2. Werewolves Within- 86% (tie)
3. Angry Birds 2- 72%
4. Sonic 2- 69%
5. Detective Pikachu- 68%
6. Sonic 1- 63%
7. Super Mario Bros (2023)- 59%
8. Mortal Kombat (2021)- 54%
9. Tomb Raider (2018)- 52%
10. Rampage- 51%

And just to compare to some of the recent TV series adaptations of video games (sorry if I missed some, couldn't find an easy list of video game tv adaptations like I could for movies, so I had to search for the ones I could think of off the top of my head):

1. The Last of Us- 96%
2. Castlevania: Nocturne- 96%
3. Fallout- 94%
4. Dragon Age: Absolution- 92%
5. Halo- 80% (average of season 1 and 2)
6. Cuphead- 75%
7. Knuckles- 75%
8. Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft- 73%
9. Like A Dragon: Yakuza- 67%
10. Twisted Metal- 67%

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/sonic-the-hedgehog-3-first-reviews-come-for-sonic-and-shadow-stay-for-deranged-jim-carrey/