6 Films That Should Be Games

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

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Ah, to be sailing the open ocean! The wind at your back, the sun on your skin, the sound of splintering wood as a cannonball tears through your hull...well, maybe life as the leader of a British frigate isn't always rosy, but it's destined to be a total blast as a video game. Unlike fantasy pirate games in which ships handle like race cars and roughneck scallywags look like Johnny Depp, a game based on the authentic Master and Commander would let virtual captains experience the ugly truths of life at sea, fighting off scurvy, mutiny and loneliness while tracking down an imposing French warship. Who knows? Maybe you could even rewrite history by taking down Napoleon himself in the biggest little boss battle ever.

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Memento

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Imagine firing up a new game only to discover that you're already wearing the coolest armor, wielding the best weapons, have memorized the strongest spells and have already saved the princess. Trouble is, you have no idea how any of it happened. Welcome to director Christopher Nolan's 2000 classic, in which a man suffering from a peculiar form of amnesia leaves himself clues as he tries to piece together the events surrounding his wife's murder. The film tramples over the space-time continuum like Marty McFly, starting at both the end and the beginning only to wind up somewhere in the middle, we think. Confused? So were we, but that's what made Memento such a great movie and why it would make such a unique, captivating video game.

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Seven Samurai

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Few films enjoy the reverence afforded to Akira Kurosawa's astonishing 1954 action epic because few films could hope to be half as influential. The core story -- seven warriors are recruited to protect a poor village from ruthless bandits -- is the archetypal backbone of the role-playing game genre and the blueprint for countless fantasy franchises, including one set in a certain galaxy far, far away. So far, however, its only game treatment has been the futuristic fiasco Seven Samurai 20XX, a loosely related and universally panned hack and slasher that was actually overseen by none other than Kurosawa's son, Hisao. Dad deserved better, and so do we.

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