How to make a game movie?

The Sequelisers takes a look at video game movies, and why video game movies rarely work. Basically, so many of the narrative-centric ones that get adapted are often like existing films and stories but interactive, and main characters are often purposefully vague.

They mention the original Tomb Raider movies but not the reboot, which I think works, because it’s based on a very story-centric reboot game. (And the Weird Level is a lot lower, too.)

By comparison, board game movies have a much higher hit rate, because there are like two, and while Battleship is decidedly meh, Clue is fantastic.

And of course then there’s the question of RPG movies. The big RPGs are often mashups of genres, and are even more lacking in central protagonists because that’s pretty much the point of RPGs.