Video games based on blockbuster movies typically get panned, yet shamelessly benefit from the buzz of their film inspirations. However, the developers of this summer’s movie games are more intent than ever on transforming gamers’ groans into grins. “Movie games have a bad history,” said Jeff Poffenbarger, senior producer at “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” game developer Raven Software. “There is a stigma to movie games, for a thousand different reasons. They come out and they don’t live up to the hype people create.”
