It's pretty easy to define why this game is terrible. The massive problem is following through the game's mechanics to reach your objective. Yes, the idea is very elementary, but that was normal for a game released around that period. The objective is to locate pieces of E.T.'s interplanetary phone so he can, well, phone home. The Extra-Terrestrial, boy, is this a game hard to swallow. We've had decades of notably bad movie films to suffer through, although some based on franchises have been decent/īut back to E.T. There's a famous quote of the developers calling the idea of making an action game based on movies 'a dumb idea.' Perhaps this person should go down history as the prophet of doom whose ultimate prediction turned true. So what makes this game such a tragic offering? The Alien Is Lost On Us You can't really sugarcoat something like this - but you can place it into the category of awful cult classics. We might as well jump right into it, labeling it as one of the worst games ever made. The Extra-Terrestrial was released as an adventure game to work in parallel with the film's narrative. The Extra-Terrestrial is a prime example of what a poor movie game is.Į.T. Well, guess what - it turns out they were just as bad in the old days as they are today.

Considering our stereotypical outlook of video games derived from films these days, we don't believe that once these offerings could have actually been palatable. It's funny to think that even the movie game genre once has humble beginnings.

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