Unlike many movie-games, this isn’t an inferior digital recreation of the film. When developers known for their work-for-hire efficiency rather than their specialised talents are given mere months to piece together a game to tie in with a theatrical release, it’s perhaps unreasonable to expect much.īritish studio Frontier Developments is best known for space-exploration epic Elite Dangerous, a modern update to one of the best-remembered games of the 1980s – but this year, it will be releasing a game based upon June’s blockbuster Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Historically, video games based on movies have also been disappointingly rubbish. T he perennial failure of video-game movies to capture the magic of their source material has been a hot topic this year – though as well as the boring new cinematic outing for Tomb Raider, 2018 has given us two qualified successes in the form of Ready Player One and Rampage, which suggests some improvement might be on the cards.
