Revolutionary Road: The Game - ARGUE with your spouse! FIGHT OFF suburban depression! MANAGE to stay alive despite a looming calendar full of inane dates and a pointless existence!
The holidays are all about sales at the mall, what the ratio of whiskey to nog is in your egg nog, and how depressing everything is. Luckily, Hollywood is well aware of this and provides cinematic accompaniment to go along with the holiday blues. Kate and Leo’s reunion movie Revolutionary Road is a perfect example; critics are hailing it as one of the most depressing way to spend a few hours since all of your old high school nemeses appeared on Facebook.
Since most people don’t consider playing a depressing game to be fun, it’s no wonder that the video game industry hasn’t churned out a lot of melancholy games. There’s no Schindler’s List: The Game, or The English Patient: Nintendo Wii Version. Sure, there have been plenty of games that were depressing because they were bad, but not many in the “depressing on purpose” category. However, a few have squeaked by that would make extremely depressing movies. Here’s a list for your enjoyment.
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The holiday video game season is already fast upon us, and over the next few weeks several highly anticipated video games will finally be hitting store shelves. However, none of them has a big-budget (or even indie-sized budget… that would be a fun experiment) film adaptation hitting the theater concurrently, which is probably a good thing, because we’d end up with a lot of half-assed video games.
But which new games should be turned into movies? Thankfully, imagination has finally been creeping back into games, and it’s high time Hollywood pays attention (although, of course, the guys blasting aliens with guns will still be there.) Here’s a list of video games that should be turned into movies.
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