Video Games: Clearly influenced by films

[exe3]

An obvious one, but Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Saving Private Ryan.

I wouldn't have compared them, the MoH:AA level lacked any kind of excitement or feelings, CoD should have done the landings, they could've done it properly

[Winged Sandals]

when i did the beach landing on my ps2 way back in the day i thought it was amazing

[SayWhat?]

Call Of Duty: World At War, in the singleplayer campaign there is a scene where you are in a fountain and have to take shots at the Germans just as planes drop bombs so they can't hear where the shot is from. Almost exactly the same scene as is in Enemy At The Gates.

[jmcev]

Good spot. That was one of my fav levels too.

[SayWhat?]

Exibit A: Sasha (Behind Enemy Lines)




Exibit B: Victor Zakhaev (Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)




Exibit C: Nico Bellic (Grand Theft Auto 4)

[Zombywolf]

sigh...

idiots.

[SayWhat?]

sigh...

idiots.

What?

[Zombywolf]

The last two examples...
The gfx devs aren't replicating movies...they're taking facial traits from race X, and relying on people's stereotypes of other people.

As for CoD: WaW, or Cod1...cod2...
Aren't they trying to replicate events that happened in...y'know...REAL LIFE?
Crossing of the Sienne, Stalingrad sniping...all happened in real life guys.

[SayWhat?]

Do you have any examples of your own? In my first example, they didn't just replicate an "event" that happened in real life (Stalingrad). They were clearly inspired by a specific scene in a movie. Second, comeon do you seriously not see that Nico Bellic is wearing the exact same blue with 2 white stripes jacket. Even the brown jacket he wears underneath the blue one is the same. Third, we're not saying any of these are examples of game devs "replicating" movies but they might have drawn inspiration from them.

No need to call me an idiot..

[diamondd]

Red Dawn = Freedom Fighters and MW2.

yeah, i lol'ed at the campaign level on mw2 called wolverines

EDIT: this is probably more of an easter egg but they have a russian version of the WOPR from Wargames in the missile silo in the second last level of cod4 too, dunno if anybody else noticed that

[drallim]

Little Shop of Horrors


Super Mario Bros.

[Jez]

I'm going to replay CoD2 soon .. so I'll check

But I was talking about the being a sniper against a sniper, inside Leningrad .. thought that was in CoD2.

There's a scene in World At War in the first Russian level in Stalingrad where you're fighting a German sniper.

Call of Duty 1 had the Enemy At the Gates style scene with the boats crossing the volga and one rifle for two guys.

sigh...

idiots.

I think you're missing the point here.

[Bek]

^ Pretty sure there's a sniper battle between russians (ie you) / germans in cod2 as well.

[Jez]

^ Pretty sure there's a sniper battle between russians (ie you) / germans in cod2 as well.

That's right, where a fellow russian gets himself shot and then another soldier distracts him with the old trick of a helmet on a rifle and you shoot him. I had forgotten about that.