Stories that Should be Addapted to Games

Stories, be it books or movies, should be given the chance to become interactive. This is a wish list of my favorite stories that I would like to play and who might make them.

Cell (Stephen King)
This is the best Zombie story I have ever read. As the story progresses the zombies adapt and become more powerful. If there is ever a "real" zombie apocalypse I think it is likely to be in reaction to electronics rather than a biologically/chemically produced problem. The zombies start off barely thinking but they evolve into having a hive mind.

Bethesda would be great at making a contemporary world that has been ripped apart by zombies. If they could use the Fallout 3 visuals combined with the Borderlands shooting engine and Cell story I would get this game for everyone I would play it through.

Kingpin
A bad-ass bowling game with a crazy-funny story about bowling alley hustlers should be no problem from the group that created GTA4 and a very good table tennis game. Natal is the future of motion gaming. It would be just like Rockstar to on be the cutting edge of combining story, a sweet physics engine and motion control.

It is so perfect that there is no possibility that this will never happen.

Running Man (Stephen King)
Can a game-show be a GREAT game? Another Stephen King story to game would be tough had it not been for the greatest game-show movie ever; The 1987 movie adaptation featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger strikes me as an easy selection.

If you could combine the ideas from the movie (boss fights, money rewards, being hunted) with the book (the variety of locations, tons of hunters) add a multiplayer mode of hunters vs hunted and a create a character with various customizable options and you have a blockbuster.

Fight Club: Project Mayhem  (Chuck Palahniuk)
Take the dark comedy aspects of the movie and combine them with THQ's Saints Row and you get a tongue in cheek game of vandalism and mayhem. You and your friends vs the good people of the city. Fight Club was not a story about fighting, it was about being primal and funny.

Only THQ is brave enough to splice single frames of pornography into children's films, pee in soup you serve or fight with a priest.

Ender's Game  (Orson Scott Card)
I would make this as a series of different style games from the beginning. There are 4 independent game varieties to be played that would follow the story and make for great gameplay.

1. Battle Room- A multiplayer game of you and your team vs another team in a zero-G environment with laser pistols and a variety of obstacles you can use for cover. Can your team outmaneuver your opponent?
This game could be made as a download only FPS game for PSN and Xbox live (Battlefield 1942). There is only one map that obstacles are put inside.

2. Command School- You take command of a small group of space ships and direct them to success against opponent ships (buggers/formics). You command more ships the better you do eventually commanding the leaders of squads against bigger and bigger groups of aliens. Eventually you fight your way to the Formic home world to battle impossible odds.

3. The Battle Beneath- A Starship trooper-esque man vs alien battle on a planet surface as you defend escaping natives. Your goal is to find the queen before her army wipes you out. The game will take you into tunnels that the Formics are burrowing to fight against a variety of alien opponents (worker, soldier, vanguard, phalanx, queen ect).

4. The Rebirth- Rebirth would be a puzzle game surrounding Ender's exile to other planets exploring strange places and uncovering the mysteries of the Formics and other aliens.
The story would start you as Ender at the beginning of Battle School playing with his laptop finding the "Fantasy Game" (possibly using it as a tutorial) and killing the giant and going to fairy land later taking him to bizarre formic worlds trying to piece together their existence. Jane could be the cheat button (read the series I don't want to spoil anything).

These games would probably be attractive to give Valve, being that the worlds would have to use a variety of physics types for every world (battle room and other planets) but I would like to give Rare a challenge because they are great at making stories into good games.

Rambo/Commando
How in the shit has this game not been remade!? It would be a great FPS pitting you against EVERYONE! I know it would just be a theme and skins you could attach to any good FPS game engine. That is why I want it!

Epic would make this series into the explosive bloody mess that movie-goers loved. Marcus Phoenix is essentially a future John Rambo. What more do we need?

Blade Runner
The game has already been made. Just rename Deus Ex and gain a whole new group of 40 (and older) fans.

Kill Bill
Hot, violent, jiggly women… How could Itagaki pass this opportunity up?

This needs to be 3rd person action game where Ninja Gaiden would meet the style of No More Heroes. You are the "Bride" who, after years coma, needs to Kill Bill for revenge. You have plenty of people to kill, lots of boss battles and an obvious progression system (pregnant fighting, limited-to-a-wheelchair fighting, hand-to-hand combat then the sword).

Team Ninja (at least the guys from TN) needs to get on this NOW!

GI Joe
Valve should make this FPS with the future/present ideas from Half-life (minus aliens). An evil corporation vs a crazy variety of good guys. GI Joe action is very movement driven. Lots of planes, tanks, subversive vehicles, boats and running/jumping would weigh heavily on a physics based game engine. It would have balance slow and strong characters vs quick and weak (or limited range) fighting. If anyone could make a great game from these elements it would be Valve.

*Note*
Use the comic books as the base of the story with elements from the cartoons but make the story dark.
*Note 2*
I previously thought that Rare would be great to make this game because their weapons and their take on the future of reality, but they can't even add jumping to their shooters (Perfect Dark). They must be terrible with physics engines. The character movement is more important than great weapons.
*Note 3*
Pandemic would probably also have been a viable option had it not been for recent bad games. GI Joe would have the most to gain from Star Wars Battlefront.

Austin Powers/Ace Ventura
These games are probably the hardest to get people to make. These are old franchises that went from awesome to not funny very fast. They used the same jokes over and over. That is unless  someone like Telltale Games decides to reinvigorate them combining silly/witty without being annoying and TOO over-the-top, the game is not worth making.

Rarely do games make people laugh out loud or even smile frequently and use fun gameplay. Good luck!

That wraps it up. If you have any ideas on stories that would be great games or think I am wrong, please respond.