Deus Ex and Assassin’s Creed both have movies within the works. Do they stand a much better chance of constructing a good videogame film as a consequence of their story focus?

We’ve all seen what can happen when Hollywood attempts to conform a game for the large screen, and it sure isn’t pretty.

The big question is, have enough lessons been learned from dirge like Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Street Fighter: The Movie, and should narrative-heavy titles comparable to Assassin’s Creed and Deus Ex fare any better?

You’d think they’d, considering screenwriters have a ready-made universe and choice of characters that completely adhere to Hollywood’s leading-man sterotypes.

But we have seen this such a lot of times before, and while the Resident Evil series appears to feel no negative impact from Paul W S Anderson’s truly terrible output (actually, fans appear to love them in a unusual kitsch way), games like Deus Ex and Assassin’s Creed pride themselves on pushing stories in videogames.

If a film plops onto the screen within the way that Transformers does most years, it won’t go unnoticed.

If only there has been a single shining example of the way to try this right, we’d have more faith that the method was worth pursing.

But the actuality is that games work well as games, and if Hollywood stopped producing movies in line with them we doubt we’d even realise.

So just stop, Hollywood; return to comic books and leave games alone.

Leave it to the developers to explore compelling stories and characters within games. They’re getting quite good at it now, they usually do not want any longer distractions from needlessly explosive, CGI-heavy toy commercials.

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We asked Twitter: Will Assassin’s Creed and Deus Ex make for good films or will they make an identical mistakes as all movie adaptations?

Steven Euden @Sterno666

“Lets hope they get them right, but as this appears the rage they can flop after a number of big names hate them.”

Kris Miles @Kris_Miles

“Assassin’s Creed could, but Deus Ex would just feel dumbed down. Assassin’s Creed would probably be better as a movie.”

James Birks @ oKidUko

“Depends at the director and the forged; often they put an excessive amount of into the lighting tricks and forget it takes greater than that.”

 Jack Wheeler @Jack_Wheeler

“I think AC has the possible to be an excellent film, if done right. Uncertain on Deus Ex though, just a little predictable for a film”

 Dave Peters @davep_12

“[I] think they’ll screw up, take a look at Resident Evil and Prince Of Persia.”

@joshauditore

“Today’s storylines have much more room to manoeuvre in, allowing someone’s interpretation to really be fathomable.”