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Slideshow: Old Movies Spawn New Games

Video games like and mine classic films for their content, with mixed results. By Chris Kohler.
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Neo performs an interpretive dance representing the box office numbers for the final two Matrix films.Courtesy of Atari

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Use the Q-Copter to distract enemies and get into tight spaces.

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Fight off Agents using ... sticks? Steel bars? Something, anyway.

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, starring Errol Flynn.

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If you're going to sneak around corners, this is probably not the best viewing angle.

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game looks like.

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I don't want to know what the guy in the back is holding.

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Well, of course you can ride a jetpack. Why wouldn't you be able to?

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