Observers suggested that GTA IV's release could hurt the box office result of Iron Man...below is the results and conclusion..

RESULTS:


GTA IV

GTA IV has already become the largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment by grossing $500 million in its first week worldwide...a gross that outgrossed atleast the top 30 of the American box office last week. It had also received a perfect 10 from both Gamespot and IGN which is no joking matter since both sites had never given that score for about a decade......IGN(almost nine years) and Gamespot(almost seven years).............

The score that I'm waiting for is from Famitsu, a 40/40 will make it the first game outside of Japan to do so....the game will probably sells really well there too...




IRON MAN

Iron Man did quite well also....it had received strong response from critics and had grossed about $250 million worldwide....It seems that almost everyone like the movie(especially fans) and Robert Dowbey Jr as Tony Spark/Iron Man is nothing less short than superb.....the video game version do sucks though, if according to reviews....

It be interesting to see how many sequels will be stared by Robert since he is already above 40 and still aging......didn't effect any of the James Bond movie if you think about it

CONCLUSION:

In this case it is a win-win situation since both of them did incredibly well...GTA 4 is an overwhelmingly strong GAME OF THE YEAR candidate and that greatest game of all time rating at Game Rankings plus that biggest launch of all time record would make every gamer proud(almost)....it might as well be the best selling game of the year and maybe ever and one of the best game of all time if not the best....

For Iron Man, the movie could gross above $700 milion and may become one of the best comic book adaption/superhero film of all time....

MOVIES VS GAMES

Well, as long as a movie is strongly marketed and well received, the movie industry had nothing to worry about(now).....since gamers are willing to give up two hours or so of their playing time to watch their favourite movies....however, if a movie is poorly marketed and/or received, it gonna wet on its own pants..............................

This post has been edited by Abdul Rahman: May 14 2008, 03:54 PM

i wish i hv X360 or PS3. wanna play with the naturalmotion euphoria physic engine

(corerct me if im wrong)

I freakin hate most of the games which are made based on movies!

well iron man got 3.9 / 10 and GTA IV 10 / 10....for me kindda disapointed with iron man rating cause im the biggest fan of IRON MAN

of course gta4 is more better

gtaIV vs sainst row 2..which one??

sorry off topic

No cinta u-turn??? it beats GTA 4 man!!!

Yayaa.. me too... i try play IRON MAN on my PSP.. but still i cannot accept it... darn... movie based game is never my flavour...

i meant the iron man movie.........gta vs sainst row/viva las vegas.....both of the game need to score above 9.5 if they even think about competing with gta4,,,,prototype seems cool too.......

okay..now this is a thread of a game vs a movie??

yeah, kind of.....won't you be interested if the two medium come head to head....

The Iron-man game is basically a contender for worst game of the year 2008.

GTA4, contender for GOTY 2008(although I don't think so quite honestly).

things that you want to compare, must have several similar attributes. for movies, the only thing that I can think of in terms of its similarities is gross sales...other than that..they are completely on a different world. is this your first GTA game?

I LOL'ed at this one

This is the most weirdest comparison ever...how can it even be justified??

it's like this actually....right now it's the movie industry that is the most popular form of entertainment.....but as a gamer, of course I want the gaming industry to be just as huge....

Console/PC games and movies fall under entertainment category. The comparison is about the form/medium of entertainment that the entertainment industry is seriously looking into both forms/media. They also invest a lot of money for both media (licensing.)

This post has been edited by eclectice: May 11 2008, 06:18 PM

correct

movie based games almost will suck all the time. But this thread is Game vs movie...

no hot coffee mod with naturalmotion euphoria physic engine?

no news about that yet.........