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Ever since the movie industry has discovered that you can get a lot of money out of the game industry, tons and tons of video games based on movies have been released and been labeled as ''crappy'' games. But what makes a movie based game crappy? I'll tell ya'. Sometimes a movie is good and sometimes movie is bad, we all know that. When a company like Universal or 20th Century Fox thinks one of their movies is going to be a big hit cause of massive promoting, they wanna cash in on that by knocking on the door of a gamedeveloper. Ta-da, there you have your average videogame with lack of depth and fun. A good example of a bad movie based game is E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. Your goal in this game is to stay out of the hands of US government. Sounds exciting, but the... Read more »

It's just one of those days when you're in the mood to be a rock legend, to slam your guitar like Jimmy Hendrix did and share that with one of your buddies who comes along to play the multiplatinum game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock! But that pleasant share of joy will come to a end not much later.Yeah, guess what!? My guitar is broken! And no, no the first time or the second, but the frikkin' THIRD time! First the A/green button didn't work after that the Starpower wasn't able to function properly and now, again, the A button won't work for sh**... Joy! Any of you guys have the simliar problem with GH or any other games? Read more »