Angry Birds
The game: Insanely popular catapult game where the player knocks down fragile structures with a variety of aerobatic bird bombs.
The film: A colourful family of birds – flock leader Red, the speedy Chuck, etc – find their paradise homeland invaded by pigs and set out to turf them out. An accidental metaphor for the refugee crisis, then.
Resident Evil
The game: One-time king of the survival horror genre, more recent RE games have been more like zombie shoot-em-ups.
The film: The sixth and final entry in the franchise, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter sees Milla Jovovich’s Alice return to Raccoon City to battle the Umbrella Corporation’s Red Queen. The game milker’s guide to the zombie apocalypse, basically.
Uncharted
The game: Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones in this treasure-hunting climb’n’shoot modern classic series.
The film: On the production back burner since 2007 as the likes of Mark Wahlberg and director David O Russell joined then left the project, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is now scheduled for June 2017
Assassin’s Creed
The game: As a shady cast of cowled hitmen through the ages, the AC franchise had you sneaking murderously around everywhere from Renaissance Italy to London during the Industrial Revolution.
The film: Michael Fassbender plays the titular assassin reliving the memories of his 15th century Spanish forefather in order to help destroy the present-day Knights Templar.
