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A counterpart of [[Better
Technically no chance, anyway. This is when something has nothing to do with a certain series, but evokes almost the same feeling you'd imagine a decent license invoking with a certain franchise, making it (intentionally or not) a Spiritual Licensee.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Summer Wars]]'' is getting a reputation for being the best ''[[Digimon]]'' film ever. Having the same director and basic plot as one of the most popular '''actual''' ''Digimon ''films probably helps on that front.
* ''[[
* ''[[Spirited Away]]'' is quite possibly the best adaptation of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''.
* [[Flag]] seems to be ''[[Beyond Good
* ''[[Voices of a Distant Star]]'' is perhaps the best and most [[Tear Jerker|tear-inducing]] adaptation of ''[[The Forever War]]'' made by a single man.
** ...But not as old as ''[[
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' could easily pass as an adaptation of Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' saga...with robots and spinning kicks!
** It could also pass for a damn good Gundam series.
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* ''[[Histeria (Animation)|Histeria]]'' and ''[[Horrible Histories]]'' may be long gone, but really they live as a series called ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]].''
** Though one couldn't help but wonder whether the overblown [[National Stereotypes]] in ''[[G Gundam]]'' might have been foreshadowing.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]'' is basically an anime adaptation of ''[[Top Gun]],'' if it took place in the future and involved Gundams. Even the openings are reminiscent of ''Danger Zone'' and late 80s-early 90s power ballads.
** However, a better one came out later on in the form of ''[[Macross Plus]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' could be described as an anime adaptation of ''[[Mad Max]],'' only with martial arts.
* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] is pretty much an adaptation of [[Getter Robo]]'s later arcs with a bit more silliness.
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== Film ==
* Because ''[[The Incredibles]]'' featured a family of superheroes facing off against an evil genius with a largely unjustified grudge, it is often considered a vastly superior movie adaption of the [[Fantastic Four]] to [[Fantastic Four (
** It also was considered by some to be a [[Lighter and Softer]] adaptation of ''[[Watchmen (
** And it had the best [[James Bond (
* ''[[
** [[George Takei]] called it "a chillingly realistic documentary."
** The Two Guys from Andromeda have called it the best ''[[Space Quest]]'' movie out there.
** Interestingly, counting it as an "actual" ''Star Trek'' movie (it would be #10, having come out between ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection|Insurrection]]'' and ''[[Star Trek Nemesis|Nemesis]]'') would "correct" the famous [[Star Trek Movie Curse]], which had been knocked out of whack by ''Nemesis'' being terrible and [[Star Trek (
* With [[Christian Bale]] starring, ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'' is the closest thing to a Batman vs Terminator film we will ever see.
* ''Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula'' is closer to [[Doctor Doom]]'s origin story than the one in the actual ''Fantastic Four'' film.
** ''[[Batman Begins]]'' as well.
* ''[[
* The ''[[Masters of the Universe (
** Inverted in the case of [[Abraxas Guardian Of The Universe]] which blatantly uses plot devices like "Answer Box", "Anti-Life Equation" and something like a Boom Tube. It is not in any way a good movie, [[The Fourth World|Fourth World]] or otherwise.
* ''[[When Harry Met Sally]]'' is the best [[Woody Allen]] film never made.
* Martin & Porter's ''DVD & Video Guide'' calls ''[[A Few Good Men]]'' "the best [[Perry Mason]] movie ever made."
* ''[[Snow Day]]'' was originally written as a film adaptation of ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'', and it shows.
* ''[[Aliens]]'' is often referred to as a stealth adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein's ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' -- and a far superior adaptation to the later officially-licensed film. And even though it was just one suit, ''Aliens'' even had more [[Powered Armor]] than the actual ''[[Starship Troopers (
* The [[Jean Claude Van Damme]] movie ''[[Double Impact]]'' is a better ''[[Double Dragon]]'' movie than the actual ''[[Double Dragon (
* Many ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' fans like to consider ''[[Event Horizon]]'' canonical.
** Likewise, a few ''[[Doom]]'' fans consider it to be a better ''Doom'' movie than the one the game actually got.
** Some combine all three.
* ''[[Michael Clayton]]'' has been called "the best [[John Grisham]] movie ever made".
* ''[[
** The Dark Carnival campaign in ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'' could be considered a good ''[[
* A review of ''[[Jumanji]]'' was impressed on how much it looks like [[Steven Spielberg]] directed or produced the movie.
* [[Roger Ebert]] wrote that to watch the ''[[The Thing
** The [[The Thing (
* Uwe Boll's ''[[Rampage (
* The screenwriter for ''[[The Book of Eli]]'' is a self-proclaimed fan of ''[[Fallout 3]]''. It's pretty much the movie of the game with no ghouls and the search for clean water replaced with [[The Bible]].
** It's also arguably the best ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' movie ever made by a Western studio. Minus the exploding heads and with a {{spoiler|blind}} Badass Denzel Washington.
* Continuing the [[Video Game Movies Suck|not-video-game-movies series]], ''[[Street Kings]]'' feels a lot like ''[[Max Payne (
* Despite being an adaption of a comic that came out years before, ''[[
* ''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]'', in addition to its own source material, could be said to be the best adaptation of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' we're likely to ever see, given Bill Watterson's attitude toward licensing.
* ''[[
** Though calling it an adaptation makes ''[[
** ''[[
** As [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWa1eiHPhKw this mashup proves], calling ''[[Inception]]'' a [[Darker and Edgier]] ''[[
* ''[[The Spirit (
* ''[[
* ''[[
** It's also described as the closest viewers will get to a live action ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' movie.
* ''[[Idiocracy]]'''s plot, about a society that has been dumbed down by the stupid outbreeding the smart, comes off like an unauthorized adaptation of the CM Kornbluth short story "The Marching Morons".
* ''[[Beowulf (
* ''[[
* [[Orson Scott Card]], author of ''[[Ender's Game]]'', whose book has been [[Development Hell|on-and-off on development status]], considers ''[[Rise of the Planet
** In the past he's made similar statements about ''Serenity''.
* Did you know they made a ''[[
* The movie ''[[Real Steel]]'' had been called ''Rock'em Sock'em Robots: [[The Movie]]''. It's actually an adaptation of the 1956 story and 1963 ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Steel", which in turn is said to have been the inspiration for Rock'em Sock'em Robots.
* ''[[Ninja Assassin]]'' is pretty much the best and closest one could get to a ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' movie.
* ''[[Showdown in Little Tokyo]]'' is as close one can get to a movie version of [[SNK]]'s ''Burning Fight''. What with fighting a Yakuza gang, but taking place in [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[
* The ''[[Underworld (
* With its combination of action and slapstick, the main character being a [[Gentleman Thief]], and the overall feel of the film, some people have called ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'' a better live-action ''[[
* ''[[
* [[
* ''[[The Cabin in
* [[Guillermo
* ''[[The Raid]]'' unintentionally becomes a movie adaption of the ''Dynamite Deka'' series, aka ''Die Hard Arcade'' and ''Dynamite Cop'', by Indonesia (with a Welsh director). The movie has it all: a swat team infiltrating the building, a bad guy barking orders on the top floor, and waves upon waves of mooks on each floor. Even some movie critics said the movie feels like an adaption of arcade [[Beat'Em Up|beat'em ups]] from the 90s.
* Ray Liotta's ''[[
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* The ''Nina Wilde'' series by Andy McDermott, about a semi-reluctant [[Adventurer Archaeologist]], obviously takes more than a few cues from (and frequently references) Indiana Jones and Lara Croft. However, the number of pitched gun battles in exotic locations and rare vehicles which inevitably explode makes it far more akin to the written form of ''[[Uncharted]]''.
* ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' is probably the closest that we'll get to an American remake of ''[[Battle Royale]]''. '''[[Fan Dumb|And that is]] [[They Copied It, So It Sucks|all that needs]] [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|to be said]].'''
** ...unless, of course, the success of the [[The Hunger Games (
== Live Action TV ==
* There are those who consider ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' a jazzier version of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''.
** They are mistaken. In fact, ''Heroes'' is the television version of ''[[
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has strong elements of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' {{smallcaps|[[In Space]]!}}
** [[Word of God]] says it's suppose to be ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' {{smallcaps|[[In Space]]!}}
* Lucas Buck from [[American Gothic]] and Randall Flagg from [[The Stand]] share so many similarities that American Gothic can almost be considered a tv show starring Randall Flagg and his attempts to have a heir. Like Flagg, Buck is handsome, charismatic southerner who might or might not be the devil or a demon, who is fond of making deals and enslaving others through their vices and desires. He has understated supernatural powers, is seemingly ageless, and most of all wants a son.
* ''[[Parker Lewis Can't Lose]]'' is called "''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
* The earliest episodes of ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' could be called the TV series [[Tim Burton]] never made.
* ''[[Choujin Sentai Jetman]]'' is what ''[[
* ''[[Super Robot Red Baron]]'' (and, by extension, its follow-up successor series ''Super Robot Mach Baron'') can be pretty much considered a live-action version of ''[[Mazinger Z]]''.
** To the point that, in Spain, footage from ''Mach Baron'' was made into a theatrical movie and retitled "Mazinger Z, el Robot de las estrellas" (''Mazinger Z, The Robot from the Stars'') to benefit from ''Mazinger'' popularity. There was even a comic-book adaptation made by an Spanish artist that lasted some forty issues, and was known to a generation of spanish children as "El Mazinger Rojo" (''Red Mazinger'').
* More than a few have claimed that ''[[
** Paul Darrow (Avon) has explicitly said in a DVD extras interview that he considered ''[[
* ''[[Dark Angel]]'' was [[James Cameron]]'s attempt to make an unofficial live-action version of ''[[Gunnm]]'' (aka ''Battle Angel Alita'') after the official version he was scheduled to direct went into [[Development Hell]].
* ''[[The Borgias]]'' are just close to being an adaptation of ''[[
* ''Total Recall 2070'' despite its name has more to do with ''[[Blade Runner]]'' than ''[[Total Recall]]''. The [[Word of God]] says the show is based on the original Philip K. Dick stories which were the source material for the aforementioned films.
* There's a reason why [[Power Rangers RPM]] was dubbed [[Fan Nickname|Terminator: The Power Rangers Chronicles]].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* If there was ever a tabletop game version of [[Watership Down]], it would be called [[Bunnies and Burrows]].
* The [[Space Marine|Space Marines]] in ''[[
== Video Games ==
* Many people consider ''[[Crysis (
** The ''[[The Hidden]]'' [[Game Mod|mod]] for ''[[Half-Life 2]] '' also feels like a ''Predator'' game.
* [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] had originally wanted to make a [[Popeye]] arcade game in the early 1980's, but Nintendo's right to the character were revoked midway through production. Miyamoto then took the idea of [[Super Mario Bros.|a scrappy hero]] rescuing [[Save the Princess|a helpless damsel]] from [[Donkey Kong|a hulking brute]] and made video game history.
* The [[Kunio Kun]] soccer league games, including Nintendo World Cup may as well be called [[Captain Tsubasa]]: The Game.
* Several games have been cited as evoking the feeling of the ''[[Alien]]'' films. Although ''Aliens'' is notable for averting [[The Problem
** Speaking of ''Dead Space'', owing to its somewhat derivative nature, and quality despite that, it has been mentioned as evocative of pretty much every notable sci-fi horror film ever.
** In fact, ''[[Doom (
** ''[[Metroid]]'' captured the essence of the ''[[Alien]]'' movies better than any of the licensed games did. Samus Aran ↔ Ellen Ripley. Metroids ↔ Xenomorphs. The main antagonist of the Metroid series, Ridley, is even a [[Shout-Out]] to Ridley Scott, director of the 1979 ''[[Alien]]'' film.
** ''[[Dead Space (
** The [[Turbo Grafx 16]] pinball game ''Alien Crush'' has some suspiciously [[
* Although some official ''[[
** Before it underwent major decay, the same was said of ''[[Tomb Raider]]''.
** ''Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure'' also seems remarkably influenced by the ''[[
* ''[[Starcraft]]'' reminds many people of, alternatively, ''[[Starship Troopers]]'', ''[[Alien (
* Similarly, [[Blizzard Entertainment]]'s other big RTS franchise, ''[[
* It can also happen between games. ''[[
* ''[[Freelancer]]''/''[[Starlancer]]'' to ''[[Wing Commander (
** ''[[Starlancer]]'' is also noteworthy for having a backstory that's basically the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'' [[With The Serial Numbers Filed Off|thinly disguised]] by having [[Dirty Communists]] instead of Cylons. It's also rather better than the officially licensed BSG game for the Playstation 2 and [[X Box]] despite being made by ''the same studio''.
* Also between games, it's good to see a game in the ''[[Dungeon Keeper]]'' universe again, albeit a spinoff called ''[[Overlord]]'' under a different genre.
** Not to mention the board game ''[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/45315/dungeon-lords Dungeon Lords]''.
*** And the new game ''[http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=5820 Dungeons]'' by Kalypso Media.
* The way the ''[[Need for Speed]]'' franchise turned to a street racing theme from ''Underground'' to ''Undercover'' pretty much screamed out ''[[The Fast and
** And the latest ''Hot Pursuit'' version is an awesome ''[[Burnout]]'' sequel!
* As [http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=352 Action Button Dot Net] puts it: "''...someone finally made a good [[Sherlock Holmes]] game, and it's not even a real [[Sherlock Holmes]] game. It's about [[Professor Layton
* It's no exaggeration to say that ''[[God Hand]]'' looks like one of the best ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' games ever made, considering that [[No Export for You|we didn't get any good ones at all]] until ''Hokuto Musou/Ken's Rage''.
* ''[[Silent Hill]]'' is to ''[[
* ''[[Starflight]]'' is certainly in the running for the best ''[[Star Trek]]'' game ever made, and certainly the best of the 1980s.
* ''[[Red Dawn]]'' has a lot of Licensees that aren't.
** ''[[Freedom Fighters (
** ''[[World in Conflict]]'' and ''[[Command and Conquer]]: [[Command and Conquer Red Alert|Red Alert 2]]'' are "''[[Red Dawn]]'': The [[Real Time Strategy|RTS]]", with the latter even getting the cheesiness down.
** ''[[Home Front]]'' towers over them all -- its plot is written by ''John Milius himself'' and is basically ''[[Red Dawn]]'' with North Koreans in place of the Russians.
*** And in turn, it's been hailed as the sequel ''[[Freedom Fighters (
* The ''[[
* Subversion: ''Dynamite Deka'', a 3D [[Beat'Em Up|beat-'em-up]] for the arcades and [[Sega Saturn]] released in Japan, was heavily inspired by the ''[[
** Note that the sequel ''Dynamite Cop'', the international version of ''Dynamite Deka 2'', did not retain the ''Die Hard'' license.
*** ''Dynamite Cop'' is the best game adaption of ''[[Under Siege]]'' or ''[[
* The Sunsoft game ''Journey to Silius'' for the NES was originally intended to be a game based on the first ''[[Terminator]]'' movie.
* The unreleased NES game ''Sunman'', also by Sunsoft, was originally intended to be a ''[[Superman]]''-based side-scrolling action game. An early build of the game actually had the Man of Steel as the player character with John Williams' iconic theme as the first stage music, but for some reason Sunsoft lost the license and Supes got replaced with an [[Captain Ersatz|obvious pastiche]].
* The original ''[[Mega Man (
** ''[[Neo
** ''Mega Man'' eventually ended up being more of an amalgam of ''[[Astro Boy]]'' and ''[[Neo
** Megaman has been said before to be inspired by both characters.
*** Comparisons between Casshern and Dio, could also easily be brought up with Capcom's [[Devil May Cry|Dante and Virgil]].
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** The whole casket thing is sort of from ''[[Moby Dick]]'', though.
** If one were to see the trailer for the original ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' while being unaware of the franchise, it wouldn't be a huge leap to expect it to be a straight-up Monkey Island movie, even though the influence actually went the other way.
* ''[[
** Similarly, the Los Santos chapters ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]: [[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
** And to go further back, ''[[
** Going in the other direction, some people consider ''[[Saints Row]]'' to be the true successor to ''San Andreas'' and the ''III''-era ''GTA'' games, especially after ''[[
*** You could compare the two franchises as college students: where GTA is the serious straight-laced student with a 4.0 GPA, Saints Row is the partying, hard drinking, pot smoking, orgy attending cooler friend.
** Meanwhile, ''[[
** It goes back even further, if you squint; the original 2D ''Grand Theft Auto'' owes a huge amount of thematic inspiration to ''[[
* ''[[Lost Odyssey]]'' is a pretty good ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' game, made by that series' original creator (and musician) after he left Square Enix.
** Similarly, ''[[Blue Dragon]]'' takes heavily from ''[[Dragon Quest]]'', even getting [[Akira Toriyama]] to do the character designs.
** Now the next big RPG from the guy is ''The Last Story'', and merely from the name and logo design (which is all that is known about it) the games looks like another ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' attempt.
* ''[[Red Faction]]'' bears striking resemblance to the Martian society depicted in ''[[Total Recall]]''.
* ''[[Manhunt]]'' was originally meant to be an adaptation of ''[[The Warriors (
** Some have suggested that the sequel, ''Manhunt 2'', is a spiritual licensee of ''[[Fight Club]]''.
* While it's pretty unlikely that anyone would ever make a ''[[Perry Mason]]'' video game, the world will always have ''[[Ace Attorney]]''.
* Many people have bemoaned the fact that ''[[
* Despite the creator's efforts to give it a more unique art style, ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'' -- while ~So Bad It's Good~ -- remains a closest thing we have that can be considered a ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' game.
** Even moreso than ''[[Alan Wake]]'', which in turn owes a bit for [[Stephen King]]'s work.
* ''[[Eternal Darkness]]: Sanity's Requiem'' is sometimes considered an impressive adaptation of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. The game used inspiration from the stories and even the books can be found, but you can't read them, only observe them.
* Barring the lack of giant bugs, ''[[Section 8 (video game)]]'' is the most true adaption of the [[Starship Troopers|Mobile Infantry]] ever.
* ''[[Dead Rising]]'' bears so many similarities to ''[[Dawn of the Dead (
* Aside from being a spiritual entry in the ''[[Luminous Arc]]'' series, ''[[Arc Rise Fantasia]]'' can be seen as a [[Spiritual Licensee]] to the ''[[Tales
* ''[[
* It takes a bit of time to realize that ''[[X-COM]]: UFO Defense'' is [[UFO|not set in 1980, and was not made by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson]].
* The ''[[Halo]]'' franchise, especially ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' with its drop pods, is quite possibly the best adaptation of ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' outside of ''[[Aliens]]''.
** It also has one of the best depictions of the architecture and technical power of ''[[The Culture]]''.
* ''[[Okage]]'' is probably the greatest [[Tim Burton]] game no one has ever heard of.
* ''[[Max Payne (
** ''[[Hard Boiled]]''?
*** Which - by the way - much like ''[[Scarface]]'' above, [[John Woo Presents Stranglehold|also had been forced to rip off itself as well]].
**** ''[[Max Payne 3]]'' is a good video game adaption of ''[[Man
* Given the way the grappling hook is used, ''[[Just Cause (
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]'' had, by far, [[Crowning Music of Awesome|the best]] [[James Bond]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|title song I've heard for a while.]]
* ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' to ''[[Invader Zim]]'', down to having the same tone, humor, and Richard Horvitz voice your [[Exposition Fairy]].
* ''[[Kane and Lynch]]'' has a noted similarity to the films of [[Michael Mann]], specifically ''Heat'' and ''Collateral''. The magazine PC Powerplay specifically noted that the game "[took] some pages out of Mann's notebook."
* Many gamers consider ''[[Video Game]]/Torchlight'' to be a great sequel to the ''[[Diablo]]'' games. Makes sense, considering it was made by the old ''Diablo'' dev team.
** And of course, [[Diablo III
** ''[[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]] and the Guardian of Light''.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' is pretty much ''[[
* There's a reason ''[[Prototype (
** It's also often compared to ''[[The Thing (
** It is also notable as literally being a [[Spiritual Successor]] to [[The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction|an earlier game]] based on ''[[The Hulk]]'' made by the same studio.
* ''[[Brothers in Arms]]'' is essentially ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'' the video game.
** Speaking of, ''[[Company of Heroes]]''. To the point that, in Poland, it has been relased with the [[The Foreign Subtitle]] of ''Kompania Braci'' (which is exactly how ''[[Band of Brothers (TV series)|Band of Brothers]]'' has been titled there as well).
* ''[[Nie R]],'' as mentioned in its Laconic section, might as well be called ''{{spoiler|[[I Am Legend]]: The Game}}'', especially once [[The Reveal]] is cruelly shown.
* Play some classical music, and ''[[Sins of a Solar Empire]]'' could easily pass itself off as a Western adaptation of ''[[Legend of the Galactic Heroes]].'' There's even a mod that lets you import both [[The Empire|the Reich]] and the [[The Republic|Free Planets Alliance]].
* ''[[
** Based on the trailers, upcoming franchise installment ''[[
* ''[[Ikari Warriors]]'' was originally planned to be a ''[[Rambo]]'' arcade game. The game's title actually comes from the Japanese version of ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'', which was titled ''Rambo: Ikari no Dasshutsu''.
* People are calling ''Xenonauts'' a better ''[[X-COM]]'' game than the upcoming one in the making by 2K Games.
* ''[[Aquaria (
* ''[[Neutopia]]'' is the original ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
* According to [[wikipedia:Vanquish chr(28)video gamechr(29)#Development|Shinji Mikami]] he wanted to do a ''[[Neo
* ''[[The Adventures of Bayou Billy]]'' is all but a ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'' game, having an obvious [[Captain Ersatz]] player character and a plot suspiciously like ''Crocodile Dundee II''.
* ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops
* ''[[Iron Storm]]'' is probably the closest you'll ever get to a game adaptation of Orwell's ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]'' (general [[Just Before the End]] / [[Ruins of the Modern Age]] grimness, a [[Forever War]] between 20. century megaempires fueled by fanatical propaganda, etc.).
* ''[[Phantasy Star]]'' is ''[[Star Wars]]'' made into a console RPG.
* ''[[
* Although it's now gone to full-fledged series and is far more popular than its inspiration, ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' was as close to a ''[[Jet Force Gemini]]'' series as we're ever going to get.
* ''[[Berserk]]'' has had a couple of decent games to its name, but by far the best ones are [[Demons Souls]] and [[Dark Souls]].
** In addition, [[Demons Souls]] and [[Dark Souls]] are probably the best 3D ''[[
* ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' makes a excellent game adaption of [[Last Action Hero]], but with [[Toku]] themes instead. See [[X Meets Y]] for more.
* Even though all the monsters are taken from the [[Public Domain Character|public domain]], and Simon Belmont looks like something by [[Frank Frazetta]], the first [[
* Sacred was the best sequel for Diablo II in its day.
* ''[[Painkiller]]'' was thought to be more a sequel to [[Doom|Doom II]] than Doom 3 turned out to be.
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* ''Shogun: [[Total War]]'' and ''Shogun 2'' are pretty much the closest you can get to an epic scale adaptation of ''every'' Japanese samurai movie ever. And the latest DLC Expansion, ''Fall of the Samurai,'' seems set to do the same for ''[[The Last Samurai]]''... minus [[Tom Cruise]].
** Other games like ''Rome'' and 'the ''Medieval'' series can also be described as adaptations of ''Gladiator'' and ''Kingdom of Heaven'' respectively.
* A [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/23/wot-i-think-crusader-kings-ii/#more-95722 Rock Paper Shotgun review] of ''[[Crusader Kings]] II'' calls it "the best ''[[
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' is also a strong contender for the above title, borrowing not only the tone, the overall setting (of sorts) and several more visible smaller changes such as the use of the title "Ser".
* ''Lost Patrol'' from 1990 is the closest any game has come to capturing the dark view on the Vietnam War exhibited in movies such as ''[[Platoon]]'', ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'' and ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''.
* The Taito arcade game ''Rastan Saga'' was originally developed with the intention of nabbing the ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' license for it.
* ''[[Crystalis]]'' is very close to being a [[Studio Ghibli]] video game, using much of the [[After the End|setting]] and [[Green Aesop|themes]], and conspicuously inserting familiar-looking objects (such as the [[Laputa: Castle in
* [[
* ''[[
* On a review of it in this very wiki, [[Kid Icarus: Uprising]] was called the best [[Serious Sam]] game ever put onto a nintendo system.
** Likewise, it's an awesome entry in the [[Sin and Punishment]] franchise.
* iOS game in development ''Star Command'' is barely even trying to hide that it's essentially a ''[[
** Similarly, an indie game called ''[http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/artemis-lets-six-people-take-the-bridge-of-a-star-ship-and-tell-their-own-s Artemis]'' tries to replicate being on the bridge of the ''Enterprise'' as closely as possible.
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* ''[[Re Boot]]'' is this to ''[[Tron]]'', but limits the User to [[Player Character]] in Games and [[Deus Ex Machina]], focusing on the lives of the programs instead. Also increased the premise's scope beyond a single system by factoring in the internet.
* ''[[Time Squad]]'' is just Sherman & Peabody, if Peabody was a gay robot and Sherman was a space marine.
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has an identical premise to [[Frank Miller]]'s comic from the 80's, [[Ronin (
* ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'' may as well have been an animated remake of ''[[
* Some of Don Bluth's (''[[The Land Before Time]]'', ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'') films have been considered this to the Disney films of [[Golden Age of Animation]].
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