12 Times Video Games Continued the Stories of Movies (Photos)

Here are 12 video games that picked up the torches for stories started on film.

John Carpenter’s 1982 horror movie finds a group of scientists trapped in an Antarctic research facility with an alien threat that takes over and imitates them.

The video game answered that question when American soldiers return to the camp to find out what happened and face off lots more aliens on the way.

The game‘s story wasn’t as inspired as the film’s, but it did manage to introduce a system that made characters distrustful of each other, and of the player, forcing you to constantly wonder if your companions were really monsters waiting to pounce.

Isolation takes place between the first two “Alien” films, jumping 15 years ahead to tell the story of Ripley’s daughter Amanda.

Vin Diesel turned his character, Richard B. Riddick, from director David Twohy’s sci-fi horror film “Pitch Black” into a franchise with “Chronicles of Riddick.”

Diesel and Twohy worked on the story for the game, which fills out Riddick’s backstory with the prison break discussed in “Pitch Black.”

When the Wachowskis prepared their two sequel movies to 1999’s “The Matrix,” they created an experience that included several media.

The movie also left some things untold with side characters Niobe (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Ghost (Anthony Wong) that could be filled in with the tie-in video game “Enter the Matrix.”

“Enter the Matrix” is full of live-action scenes with the actors, directed by the Wachowskis, that make look and feel like a full expansion of the movie.

“Grand Theft Auto” developer Rockstar Games created a game based on the 1979 cult classic “The Warriors,” and it’s notable for its fidelity to the original movie.

In “Jaws Unleashed,” you don’t play as the poor residents of Amity, New York, as they fight to get their beach back — you play the shark, bent on eating a variety of corporate folks as they try to set up an oil refinery near the island.

The story follows hard-drinking gun-slinging Inspector “Tequila” Yuen as he battles Hong Kong gangsters, and while rumors of a sequel bounced around Hollywood about a decade ago, a film follow-up never materialized.

The James McAvoy-Angelina Jolie action movie “Wanted” never got a film sequel, but the story was continued in video game form a year after the movie’s release.

“Scarface” chronicles the rise of Cuban immigrant Tony Montana (Al Pacino) from street thug to cocaine kingpin.

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