Top Twenty Video Games for Movie Adaptation
by davemartz-507-586410 | created - 20 Dec 2012 | updated - 20 Dec 2012 | Public- Genres
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1. World of Warcraft (2005 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
First entry in the MMORPG series. Four years have passed since the mortal races stood together against the might of the Burning Legion. Peace is fading. The lands of the world of Azeroth have once again become host to a World of Warcraft.
Directors: Marc Messenger, Terran Gregory, Jeffrey Kaplan | Stars: Michele Marie Arko, Tracy W. Bush, Grant George, Joey Cash
Votes: 6,963
2. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Treasure hunter Nathan Drake, embarks in the adventure of his life searching for the legendary treasure, El Dorado while fighting a group of mercenaries.
Director: Amy Hennig | Stars: Nolan North, Emily Rose, Richard McGonagle, Simon Templeman
Votes: 22,945
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A young Kokiri boy discovers that his destiny is to free the Seven Sages and save the land of Hyrule from the treacherous sorcerer Ganondorf.
Directors: Eiji Aonuma, Yoichi Yamada, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Shigeru Miyamoto, Tôru Ôsawa | Stars: Nobuyuki Hiyama, Fujiko Takimoto, Jun Mizusawa, Takashi Nagasako
Votes: 10,673
4. BioShock (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
In 1960, a lone survivor of a plane crash named Jack discovers an abandoned underwater utopia, only to find out that the mystery behind its creation is much more sinister than he first believed.
Director: Ken Levine | Stars: John Ahlin, Greg Baldwin, Jane Beller, Susanne Blakeslee
Votes: 22,015
5. Metroid Prime (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A Space Pirate distress signal draws bounty hunter Samus Aran to Tallon IV, a world she discovers is being consumed by a terrible poison.
Director: Mark Pacini | Stars: Jennifer Hale, Vanessa Marshall
Votes: 2,204
6. Mass Effect (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a technologically advanced future, an elite human soldier takes command of a prototype star ship and works to defend the galaxy from danger.
Director: Casey Hudson | Stars: Steven Barr, Kimberly Brooks, Keith David, Seth Green
Votes: 19,824
7. Halo: Combat Evolved (2001 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Super-soldier John-117, Master Chief of the United Nations Space Command, must battle a genocidal alien race known as the Covenant following his violent crash-landing on Halo, an ancient and mysterious ring-world.
Director: Jason Jones | Stars: Jen Taylor, Pete Stacker, Tim Dadabo, Steve Downes
Votes: 12,173
8. Splinter Cell (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Stealth-mission expert Sam Fisher searches for two US agents in Georgia and soon uncovers a plot involving a nuclear device.
Directors: Richard M Dumont, Florent-Emilio Siri | Stars: Michael Ironside, Adrian Knight, Alain Goulem, Arthur Grosser
Votes: 3,392
9. Metal Gear Solid (1998 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
A crack government anti-terrorist squad takes over an obscure Alaskan nuclear disposal facility. Solid Snake is up for the task to infiltrate the facility, rescue the two hostages and thwart the terrorists' plans.
Director: Hideo Kojima | Stars: David Hayter, Patric Zimmerman, Peter Lurie, Akio Ôtsuka
Votes: 12,844
10. inFamous 2 (2011 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After the Beast destroys Empire City, Cole MacGrath flees to the city of New Marais to search for a scientist, who could upgrade his powers.
Directors: Nate Fox, Sean Stanek | Stars: Eric Ladin, Caleb Moody, Dawn Olivieri, Michael Ensign
Votes: 3,243
11. Gears of War (2006 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi, War
Mankind's desperate struggle for survival against a the Locust Horde, a nightmarish race of creatures that surface from the planet's core.
Director: Mo Davoudian | Stars: John DiMaggio, Carlos Ferro, Lester Speight, Fred Tatasciore
Votes: 9,255
12. Assassin's Creed (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A man enters a machine called the Animus that lets him relive the memories of his ancestor, a 12th century assassin named Altair.
Stars: Kristen Bell, Philip Shahbaz, Nolan North, Phil Proctor
Votes: 20,326
13. The Elder Scrolls: Arena (1994 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
First-person action role-playing game in which the protagonist must rescue the Emperor Uriel Septim VII from his dimensional prison by recovering the eight pieces of the Staff of Chaos.
Director: Vijay Lakshman
Votes: 319
14. God of War (2005 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After 10 years of endless nightmares and servitude to the gods of Olympus, Kratos is assigned with a final task, to kill Ares, the God of War.
Directors: David Jaffe, Greg Tiernan | Stars: Linda Hunt, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Carole Ruggier, Steve Blum
Votes: 12,108
15. Spyro the Dragon (1998 Video Game)
E | Animation, Action, Adventure
A young cute purple dragon named Spyro sets out to free his dragon buddies, after they had fallen victim to the villainous Gnasty Gnorc, who has turned them into crystal statues.
Stars: Clancy Brown, Carlos Alazraqui, Michael Gough, Jamie Alcroft
Votes: 2,351
16. EndWar (2008 Video Game)
T | Action, Sci-Fi, War
The future: A world without oil and a world torn apart by war. The Russians, Americans, and Europeans amass their forces to fight the Third World War. The End has come.
Stars: Andrew Ableson, David Agranov, Leigh-Allyn Baker, Irina Björklund
Votes: 170
17. DmC: Devil May Cry (2013 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Dante, a young demon hunter, teams up with his estranged twin brother Vergil in order to save humanity from the powerful influence of the demon king Mundus.
Directors: Tameem Antoniades, Hideaki Itsuno | Stars: Tim Phillipps, David de Lautour, Sage Mears, Louis Herthum
Votes: 3,160
18. Kid Icarus (1986 Video Game)
E | Action, Adventure, Family
Pit goes on a quest to find three sacred treasures, which he must equip to rescue the Grecian fantasy world Angel Land and its ruler, the goddess Palutena.
Director: Satoru Okada
Votes: 296
19. StarCraft (1998 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 2499 in the Koprulu sector, a ferocious collective race known as the Zerg arrives to massacre the exiled human colonies while a highly advanced race, the Protoss, intervenes to exterminate the Zerg.
Directors: Matt Samia, Mark Schwarz, Duane Stinnett, Chris Metzen, Glenn Stafford | Stars: Glynnis Talken, Michael Gough, Paul Eiding, Lani Minella
Votes: 5,506
20. Dante's Inferno (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A man must travel the nine circles of hell to save his beloved wife and repent for his own sins.
Director: Jonathan Knight | Stars: Graham McTavish, Pollyanna McIntosh, Richard Moll, Dee Bradley Baker
Votes: 1,904
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