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Tainted Tie-Ins: Worst Movie Games Ever

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Ever since they first fooled around in the Atari era, movies and videogames have had a troubled relationship.

Movies based on games -- like Super Mario Bros. and Postal-- deliver pure cinematic dreck, yet somehow games based on movies up the crap ante. Slapped together on tight development schedules by B-list teams, movie tie-in games rarely crawl out of the hole of mediocrity. Quite frankly, they dream of being mediocre.

Adding insult to injury, they sell enormously well. The NPD Group reported in June that the PlayStation 2 Iron Man game was May's seventh best-selling U.S. game.

Here's our list of the 10 worst movie-to-game translations in history, with input from a Wired.com reader poll. If it seems heavy on retro games, just remember that things used to be a lot worse...

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I rather enjoyed Enter the Matrix. Although largely because I found relatively easy and I could beat it before having to return it to Blockbuster which probably doesn't speak to its merits as a game.

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