Licensed Games that Rule

You know how most of the time when a movie or something comes out, they make a game based on it and it SUCKS ASS?

Well, this is the topic for games based on movies / comedy acts / rappers that you feel have managed to beat the odds and are actually decent or even good games!

I'll start!





Muppet Racemania
Playstation
Strip poker*

Pros:

• You can race as like fifty characters, using any character's vehicle. You can be Kermit and all them, but you can also be Sam the Eagle or Large Marge.
• The first time you select a level, you will see a movie clip from a Muppets movie, related to the level. To see it again, find the movie tape in adventure mode or reset your PlayStation.
• Statler & Waldorf make jokes on the menu for every level, including jokes about the quality of the game. They'll make one joke every time you switch to another level.
• When you save your game, it shows a scene from a Muppets movie ... except that an object from the scene has been cleverly edited into a Playstation memory card.
• You can attack opponents with straight-fire fish, bouncing bombs, homing chickens, and landmine penguins. All of these explode.
• There is a Kids Mode that allows you to basically hold down the gas button while the game steers for you.
• You can race in Fraggle Rock.

Cons:

• Unfortunately, you cannot play as Oscar the Grouch or other Sesame-Street-specific characters. : (
• It takes a while to get used to the slippery controls.
• Unlocking stuff requires you to finish tasks in Adventure Mode, which is fine; unfortunately, as soon as you clear one of these tasks, the level ends and you have to restart it to finish the others. The good news is that you will not end the level by completing a task you have already done (ie. collecting every food item in the level will only end it the first time.)
• Unlocking vehicles is done by filling your special bar by collecting food, and then using your special attack. You will unlock the vehicle of everybody you hit, but only on the character who used the special move, and only if the characters you hit are not disabled (dead.) This can take a while.
• Loading times are just barely long enough to be too long. They have random Muppets' pictures as loading screens. Most of them are ugly or scary, like Pepe, Janice, and the... pink guy.

* Obviously not. It's racing, of course.

Goldeneye.

No comment.

I can't quite remember, but I think Aladdin for the SNES was awesome.

Aladdin on the MegaDrive was cool IIRC. Same with Lion King, and a bunch of Mickey Mouse/Donald Duck games released around that era.

The Simpsons/TMNT Arcade are good too. Though granted that's probably because they use the same engine and stuffs.

Yeah. That, and Lion King was awrite.

Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay. It was cool 'cause it explained Riddick's back story.

The Transformers 07 game isn't bad, it's like GTA + giant robots - hoes.

I've always wanted to try Muppet Race Mania, I have a friend who always says how great it is.

I personally love the Billy and Mandy fighting game.

ya i have mupet racers it pwns!
and all those 007 games were good

I've played a bit of licensed games that I've enjoyed, but for now I'll go with this one:

Mickey's Racing Adventure
Game Boy Color
Racing...Adventure?

In a way, this game seems to me like what Diddy Kong Racing might've been like if it was a GBC game (Fittingly enough, the game was developed by Rare).

Pros

• There are quite a lot of nice Disney references packed into the game. A few examples include upgrades and new vehicles purchasable in a shop run by Ludwig Von Drake, a shop run by non-other than Magica de Spell, and the use of Casey Jr. to travel to the various tracks.
• Well done visuals considering the technical limitations, and some catchy music.
• A large part of the game takes place in a sort of top-down overworld in which Mickey and Co. travel on foot, which is actually pretty in-depth: Pete's cronies roam about and will take your money. You swap characters by going to the respective character's house. You can find cash and acorns lying around to pay for things.
• Playable characters include Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto. Though Pluto cannot enter races, he can do a variety of things on the overworld others can't, such as digging up money, warp holes, or holes which lead to digging puzzles (every one must be completed to finish the game).
• A variety of unlockable cheats, including Disco Mode, which makes racing seem like a drug-trip.

Cons

• The actual "Racing" portions of the game are similar to games like RC Pro AM: isometric. It can take some getting used to, and track obstacles may be difficult to anticipate.
• Despite the Disney elements, the game isn't the easiest. In some respects, this isn't necessarily bad, but though the various puzzles are a nice break from racing, Pluto's digging puzzles can be pretty frustrating.

I thought Spiderman 2 was a lot of fun. It got repetitive at times, but swinging through New York was really cool.

Shrek 2.

No questions asked.

I was going to post this one. Probably my favorite GBC game next to Pokemon and LA:DX

Bugs Bunny and Taz: Time Busters.

One of the few Looney Tunes games that were acutally good, and had a great take on the classic Warner Bros. cartoons.

That one Looney Tunes Basketball game for the SNES. It was awesome.

Oh also, Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure for the Sega Genesis. I love this game so much.

duck tales for nes

Most Mickey Mouse games during the Genesis + SNES era

Mickey Mania, Castle of Illusion, that one Donald+Mickey co-op game... all awesome.

that mickey mouse racing game for n64 kicked ass

and that capcom-developed mickey mouse game with the circus as the first level and lion as the boss or something

ill be surprised if anyone tried this one since i almost never hear about it

Carrot Crazy

for a GBC game it had amazing graphics and it was still kinda fun too :V