Why is it that people will insist on making films based on video games? A game is fundementally different from a book or a play, purely because a game, unlike the others, is based on direct interaction between the reader and the text.

Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, the Lara Croft series, Doom, all horrible messes in one way or another!

Games that don't have stories, like Mortal Kombat, which is just about beating opponents one after another or playing against your friends, need to be given a story. These usually end up being retreads of plots and tropes from far better films.

Games that do have stories are even worse. With Lara Croft, the film-makers abandoned everything about the games except the name of the central character.

No attempt to film a classic, sotry- and character-driven game like the Mass Effect Trilogy would do anything except infuriate the majority of fans.

Even a fairly straighforward effort like God of War would just become a watchable but unremarkable swords and sorcery movie once you remove that interactive element by removing control of Kratos from the player.

They should just let it be!