Allowing the reader to relive a story in an interactive medium is the best way to experience a book. Books ignite your imagination but video games bring your imagination to life, on screen controlled with your choice of gaming platform. Thanks to game developers that have adapted some of our favorite books to video game for us. Here's our list of video games out of someone's book.
A sci-fi adaptation of The Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, a classical Chinese literature mostly recognize as Monkey. Enslave is set in post-apocalyptic wasteland featuring Monkey and Trip who have a slaver’s gold headband fitted to Monkey to control him through their journey on the wasteland as her protection, while in the book it is used to keep him in check. In the game the headband links him to Trip so if she dies so as he.
Originally written by Robert Ludlum, the Bourne Series is one of those timeless tales of its genre and it's no surprise that one of the greatest game of all time tells its story. Jason Bourne is the world's greatest Assassin fighting the not so good people who controls the government. There's nothing quite like living out your secret agent fantasies in video game form, the excitement of this game never ends.
The Hobbit is a prequel to the Game of Throne series by J. R. R. Tolkien and you can tell that this was the tale that started it all as wizards, trolls and goblins tries to save the kingdom from the evil black devils eye. What make the video game adaptation of this classic legend so good is the sheer scope and reaction you feel like you're really leading the battle of the Five Armies and this epitome of the game will leave you breathless when playing with the Hobbits.
Assassins Creed is heavily inspired by the 1930s book Alamut by Vladimir Bartol with an improvement with the story of preventing the massive cataclysm in 2012 with ancient high-tech civilization that control humanities action in a series or magical artifacts. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. The first game takes place as the same time frame with the book with Altair taking down members of the opposing Knights of Templar just like the Persian missionary Hassan-i Sabbah on the book that converted a small community to form the Hashshashin to further their order.
Spec Ops: The Line may not have the best shooting mechanics but it did have a really cool story inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The story of Spec Ops: The Line follows Captain Martin Walker's journey to Dubai a now desolate and enveloped in sand and his attempt to uncover what happens to Colonel John Conrad. It turns the shooter genre in a really clever way and the story is just littered with twist and exploration.
Post-apocalyptic books seems to make good video games. Metro 2033, the book of the same title written by Dmitry Glukhovsky takes place in a post-apocalyptic Moscow that is adapted to a hardcore shooter adventure game traversing the hostile and radiated world and its frightening inhabitants.
Bond is back and better than ever in this video game adaptation of From Russia with Love, it was Ian Fleming's fifth book in the 007 series and the movie of the same name goes down in history as one of the best Bond films ever made and the best interpretation of the video game specifically the Playstation version.
The book and game we're actually worked on at the same time but the game was finished before the book so the end plot thus differ. The rainbow six game is a shooter genre with more tactical approach to the missions with the same plot as the book, a mission for the team to hunt down a terrorist unit who wants to release a mutated Ebola virus at the Olympic Games.
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