I haven't played it.
91: Movie tie in games and the fact that most licensed games suck
If this was in any kind of order this would be a hell of a lot f*cking higher.
Now we all know license games tend to suck, but movie tie ins in particular, the reason they suck so much is because they are set to be released at the same time the movie they're cashing in on is still showing in theaters, so very little time is spent in developing the game, this is why they tend to be so short, they are rushed like crazy and quality is insignificant. Good license games are very rare (Batman and Ducktales for the NES and most of the TMNT games, off the top of my head) and sometimes in the hands of the right developer they can be promising. But most of the time they just let Activision or THQ squeeze out another turd and put a price tag on it like they have been doing for years.
Sadly license games sell very well no matter how bad they are. Why? Stupid ass kids, that's why. Like my little brother, if it has Naruto in it, it's guaranteed to be a good game as far as he's concerned, he has a Gamecube and a Wii but pretty much every game he has is a license game. That pisses me off, what a waste of hardware. I bought him Melee just so he had at least one good game.
I'm ashamed to admit that I own a fair amount of licensed crap in my SNES and Genesis libraries, because I too was a gulible little kid who focused on games that had familiar characters and settings, instead of looking for something original.
Now bad movies and tv shows are of course, gonna make bad games, it's when premises that SHOULD make awesome games end up sucking the big one that really hurts. Superman, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, Rambo, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, great licenses that were neglected for the almighty dollar and thus have resulted in some of the worst video game tragedies of all time.
You know something's wrong when 7up makes a game starring their mascot "cool spot" and it actually turns out to be pretty good, yet they still can't make a decent Superman game.
