Breaking Bad Deserves A Much Better Video Game Adaptation Than This One
Over a decade since the airing of the original series finale, characters from the show may be making an appearance in one of the biggest video games on the market — which may turn out to be a poor fit. Despite being one of the most highly regarded TV series to have ever aired, there haven't been any attempts at adapting into a video game, not counting a bizarre mobile game adaptation in 2019. And while an idea like that could have potential, it would also come with a number of difficult factors to consider.
Adapting franchises across mediums has given, historically speaking, mixed results at best. Attempts to adapt video games into movies have turned out so poorly, so often, that until recent series like ,,, and , movie or TV adaptations of video games were thought of as «cursed.» In the other direction, video games based off of TV or movie properties have fared better, generally speaking, but are still a mixed bag — for every well-received game, there's another half-baked movie tie-in game that poorly re-tells the original material's story, and is quickly forgotten as shovelware.
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That could be why, as indicated in a leaked player survey from HYPEX on X (formerly Twitter, via ), characters from might be appearing in as skins. is, of course, no stranger to crossover skins, being the only game where Spider-Man can fire a shotgun at John Cena,but, while the survey also includes franchises like and, the game does seem like an odd choice for 's first «adaptation» to the medium of video games.
As entertaining as it might be to see Walter White get into a firefight with Goku, or Gus Fring do the Electric Shuffle, it seems like a wasted opportunity for 's first foray into video games to be a cameo in a game with a wildly different tone and audience from the show. For what is one of the best (and arguably best) shows to come out of the
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