Just not too long ago we noticed the anniversary of The Mummy Demastered, an instance of an awesome recreation based mostly on probably the most mediocre of flicks. Historically, licensed video games — normally film tie-ins — have not loved the most effective of reputations resulting from them usually being rush jobs thrown collectively on a shoestring by an under-resourced developer crunching their socks off to make the film’s launch date and, presumably, capitalise on some cross-media advertising and marketing synergy and whatnot.

Of course, there are video games like GoldenEye 007 that arrived spectacularly late (21 months after the film!) and proved {that a} high quality recreation can stand by itself two toes, however regardless of a basic enchancment in high quality with regards to licensed video games on consoles, there’s nonetheless a stigma round them. Licensed video games are dangerous is the prevailing mindset, even when ‘common’ could be a extra acceptable adjective.