Our regular guest critic Tera Kirk (who shares her name with an Olympian) examines Van Helsing and asks:
"Why are so many movies made into videogames? Although both transport us briefly into someone else's life, they do so in very different ways. We may identify with a movie's hero but we can't influence him; his story unfolds without any help from us. Yet when we play a game, our actions are essential to the story. Sometimes, in a game like Pac-Man, our actions are the story. The truth is that videogames and movies require very different kinds of audience participation. Adapting one into the other is a delicate procedure, one that must be done very carefully. Otherwise, the project turns into Frankenstein's monster: inhabiting two worlds, but at home in neither."
The rest of the review can be found here:
http://www.gamecritics.com/review/vanhelsing/main.php
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