Things that SHOULD have been made into Video Games (Part1)

This post is the first in a series where I look at anything that would have been better off as a video game. It could be a movie, toy, comic or presidential election. Today we are going to look at the movie "Sky Line."

If you haven't seen this movie, and you want to, then I must warn you that this blog will contain some spoilers. If you have seen this movie then you know that you would have begged for a spoiler before wasting 98 minutes of your life. It is fair to say that this was a really bad movie, just look up some reviews. The special effects were good, but that was it. The acting and directing were terrible. The concept was tired and overused. This movie stole concepts from other successful sci-fi movies, but executed them awfully. Imagine a cross between The Matrix, Independence Day, War Of The Worlds, and Cloverfeild created by deaf, dumb and blind chimps. (Well maybe it wasn't that bad) The worst part is that the one truly new concept from the film comes five minutes before the movie ends. (Well, it doesn't really end, they just decided to stop shooting it at this point)

However, this films one redeeming value is that it would make an awesome video game. It has the potential to sell with titles like Infamous and Prototype. To better explain I will have to reference the end of the movie.

(Spoiler)

Most of the film takes place as a group of friends tries to escape an alien invasion in a coastal town. The have to evade constant alien attacks and an unsympathetic military to survive. The aliens use a blue light to ensnare their human prey, and for some undisclosed reason our hero, Eric Balfour, is immune to it's effects.

 At the end of the film Eric finds himself trapped on the alien ship. Also his pregnant girl friend is stuck in another part of the ship. To make matters worse the aliens use human brains to power themselves. After, having his brain harvested and put into a tank like alien, he takes control and tears across the ship to save his girlfriend and unborn child.

Here is where this movie would make a good game. Imagine a game where you get to fight both aliens and the military as a brain switching  monstrous freak. You can change bodies by putting your brain into different alien models.

So, the game starts off, and you are on a weird alien ship. You don't remember a lot but you know that you were once human, and you have faint memories of a girl. You begin the game in a weak alien body, searching for clues to your origin. While scurrying around the ship you have to fight a bigger, meaner alien that you eventually kill. Now, you can put your brain in his body and use his powers. The levels continue like this, until you remember your pregnant girlfriend, and the destruction of your planet. At certain check points in the game you take a brake from being an alien, and flash back to your human body. In these levels our hero learns his back story while dodging the cross fire between the military and the aliens.

After each flashback he returns to his current alien creature. Now, with your body switching power in hand you try to save your girlfriend and your planet, in an all out royal rumble with the alien monsters.

That would be a pretty awesome game, right? However, I would change the title of the game. SKYLINE has too much bad press attached to it, and another name would give it a fresh start in a fresh market.