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Jun 2, 2015 · The 11 games on this list are only a sampling of the games based on or inspired by books. There are also the Tom Clancy games, Sherlock Holmes games, and Lord of the Rings games, including...
- BioShock
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- Assassin's Creed
Sep 29, 2023 - From Altaïr to Connor, Swords and Maces, Our...
- BioShock
- 17 I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
- 16 Dynasty Warriors
- 15 Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
- 14 A Total War Saga: Troy
- 13 Discworld Noir
- 12 World War Z
- 11 Suikoden
- 10 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- 9 Metro: Last Light
- 8 Spec Ops: The Line
Based On: I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream By Harlan Ellison
Much like the Harlan Ellison short story of the same name, I Have No Mouth and I Must Screamis a graphic adventure centered on a group of humans who are tortured by a sentient supercomputer known as AM, voiced by Ellison himself. The game expands upon the story by placing the characters in their own personal scenarios that force them to confront their inner demons. Each scenario features a morality system where players can solve puzzles righteously or at the expense of others. Depending on th...
Based On: The Romance Of The Three Kingdoms By Luo Guanzhong
Although not as well known in the West as other famous Chinese works of literature, such as The Art of War or Journey to the West, Luo Guanzhong's The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is nonetheless one of the most important pieces of literature in Chinese history. Itself a spin-off of the strategy game The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Omega Force and Koei Tecmo's action fighting game Dynasty Warriorsis their most successful game, having sold over 20 million copies. Set in the historical perio...
Based On: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Developer Frogwares incorporates different literary influences in their Sherlock Holmes titles. Nemesis had the consulting detective take on Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin, and The Awakened incorporated some Lovecraftian mythos. What might be their finest title took inspiration from Fyodor Dostoevsky's tale of guilt and redemption entitled Crime and Punishment. The game is separated into six self-contained cases, with many of the perpetrators having sympathetic motives. Much like Dostoevsky's...
Based On: The Illiad By Homer
Homer's Iliad may very well be the most famous story ever told and is one of the most important works in the entire Western literary tradition. The story of Paris and Helen, the greed of Agamemnon, the genius of Odysseus, and the undying love between Achilles and Patroclus have rung through the ages and been told and retold in different forms throughout the millennia. The characters appeared in everything from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy to Supergiant Games' Hades. RELATED :10 Best Total...
Based On: The Discworld Series By Terry Pratchett
Perfect Entertainment finally found its stride with its third game based on the Discworld series. After two titles that suffered from obtuse puzzle logic and creative liberties taken with the source material, Noiroffered an original tale that played to the medium's strengths rather than a loose adaption of Terry Pratchett's previous works. The city of Ankh-Morpork takes on a more Maltese Falconatmosphere with a little bit of H.P. Lovecraft thrown in for good measure. While the pre-rendered gr...
Based On: World War Z By Max Brooks
Max Brooks's World War Z may very well be the greatest work of zombie fiction ever made, but its history in adaptations has been poor. The 2013 movie was almost unrecognizably different from the book, with very little overlap, if any. The 2019 video game, on the other hand, fell far more in line with the novel while keeping arguably the only good thing the movie came up with: incredibly fast, crowded hordes of zombies. The levels, which are designed similarly to Left 4 Dead, feature moving be...
Based On: Water Margin By Shi Nai'an
Suikoden takes inspiration from the Shi Nai'an novel Shui Hu Zhuan, in which 108 warriors rebel against an oppressive government. Like its source material, Suikodenallows the player to recruit up to 107 party members to their cause. While the game's use of sprite-based characters on a polygonal battlefield was seen as dated when compared to other PlayStation titles, the feature of recruiting hundreds of characters was fairly unique for JRPGs. Game designer Warren Spector deemed the game as on...
Based On: Rainbow Six By Tom Clancy
The latest entry in the long-running series, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege took a different approach than its previous iterations. While still featuring the central concept of an international team of experts in counter-terrorism, Siegeopted for a war games style of game, wherein the different operators would compete against each other. As they practiced attacking or defending, they trained themselves to be the ultimate response team. Despite its differences, the game has nonetheless managed...
Based On: Metro 2033 & Metro 2034 By Dmitry Glukhovsky
Based on a series of novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro Last Lightis an FPS that takes place in a post-apocalyptic Moscow. With nuclear radiation poisoning much of the air, survivors have taken shelter in the subway system, using whatever resources they can scrounge to get by. RELATED: 10 Horror Video Game Remasters That Are Worth Playing Much like the bottle caps in Fallout, bullets serve as the unique currency in this wasteland, forcing players to choose between more ammunition or a better...
Based On: Heart Of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Yager Development decided to go in a more psychological and narrative-heavy direction with their foray into the long-running Spec Ops series. Drawing influence from the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Spec Ops: The Linesees a trio of soldiers taking on a recon mission in an occupied Dubai. However, things don't go as planned, and they're treated as hostiles by the soldiers they came to rescue. In spite of their orders to fall back, Captain Walker and his team decide to press on. As...
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- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Few books can make a stronger claim for the Geek's Hall of Fame than Douglas Adam's classic The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
- Lego Harry Potter. While every one of JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels has had at least one video game attached to it, the two Lego Harry Potter games (Years 1-4 and Years 5-7) have been the best received.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. Developer Frogwares has been creating Sherlock Holmes adventure games for more than 20 years. The games are based on Arthur Conan Doyle's detective stories and stay very true to their themes, giving players control of both Holmes and Watson and concentrating largely on puzzle-solving while putting together the clues you find along the way.
- BioShock series. The first BioShock video game hit our screens in 2007 and while the game's concept is credited to game dev Ken Levine, he acknowledges the game draws heavily upon the dystopian and utopian writing of authors Ayn Rand, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley.
From The Witcher to Rainbow Six, books inspired some of the biggest games of all time.
Oct 26, 2024 · It's a great entry point into the source novel's themes and one of the most effective games ever made because it is still a massive influence to this day. 7 Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
W.W. Norton has released a fourth critical edition of Jane Austen’s Emma edited by George Justice, and reviewing it presents something of a challenge in that, in many ways, this is the same book we all know and love already, or we wouldn’t be members of JASNA. There is no new ending, and the prose
Aug 26, 2021 · Despite this, the various pieces of literature, from modern horror to classic poetry, that have been successfully adapted into video games prove there's plenty of potential for these two mediums to work together, as seen in many of today's most famous franchises.
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