5 Games that would make great films

Game adaptations: the forbidden sin. Hardly done well, and well worth missing. Despite the watchable Silent Hill and fun Resident Evil series, the rest are just plain awful. So let’s not focus on game movies that already exist, but rather take a look at five great games that would translate well to the big screen.

Portal

The Game

Portal is one of the most creative first person uh, shooters, to have come out in the last decade. Portal took environmental puzzles to the next level; it actually built them into the game-mechanics with the portal gun. Originally a mod of the Half-Life engine, the game takes two portals — one blue and one orange — and links them together no matter the distance between them. With a series of ‘test’ chambers making up the levels, they all provide fun and stimulating physics-based puzzles. Portal was both a commercial and critical success.