Kevin Smith: My Favourite Game

The provocateur filmmaker spoke to our pals at Edge magazine about his favourite videogame of all time…

40 Videogames That Need Movies

38. Perfect Dark

The Game: Special agent Joanna Dark unravels a conspiracy involving rival institute dataDyne. While firing a gun and kicking lots of booty.

Movie Version: We’ve yet to find a big screen female spy to match Bond in the movie franchise stakes, but Joanna Dark could be the one. Plonk Jennifer Garner in the role, map out a smart origins story, and a franchise is born – not to mention a kick-ass film heroine.

Directed By: Joss Whedon – nobody can write women like him. Perfect Dark needs him.

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Tomb Raider reboot hitting screens in 2013

Angelina Jolie’s Tomb Raider films were met with either derision or apathy from most movie fans – which is perhaps why the next Lara Croft movie adventure is going for a complete system reboot. GK Films have just acquired the feature film rights to the Tomb Raider video game, and producer Graham King (The Departed) is planning on retooling the franchise. The production company have scheduled a 2013 release for the film, which apparently will be an origins story – so no, don’t expect Angelina Jolie to return.

Best & Worst: James Bond Videogames

11) Goldeneye 007

The daddy. Thirteen years of hardware upgrades and software breakthroughs haven’t eclipsed the fat polygonal-headed fun of Rare’s first-person shooter, which remains the ultimate Bond tie-in.

It helps that the movie was such a belter, and arrived on a wave of enthusiasm for rebooted Bond and all its possibilities. But the game deserves huge credit too, for perfecting the atmosphere of 007 – all mission briefings, dossiers and wristwatch laser gadgets – and for taking locations and moments from the film and transforming them into brilliant gameplay sequences, like the opening dam bungee jump, the Soviet train and the brilliant, brilliant missile silo. Untouchable.