Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies provided zombie slaughter faire and DOA even brought some eye candy and action to the table. Hitman, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat and Silent Hill took decent stabs at the genre. In the CG realm Final Fantasy: Advent Children and Resident Evil: Degeneration really brought the quality control up a notch. In this day and age there a some video game stories that haven’t been adapted and if done right, could be epic in cinematic and box office proportions.

With Tekken, Metal Gear, Tron 2 and Prince of Persia coming to a theater near you, it’s no surprise that video game movies are going to stick around. These stories have the potential to be great and Hollywood is fast learning comics and video games are material worth taking seriously. But if they knock those out of the park, what next? Since this is a PS3 site let’s keep the list to a least titles that have appeared on a Sony system. And we’ll stick to original IPs, games not based on movies naturally, and envision what kind of imagery might be truly epic on screen.

5. NINJA GAIDEN

There aren’t many high budget films about ninja that come to mind. When you consider how many high production films actually use wirework and martial arts it becomes an even more surprising fact. Take Ryu Hayabusa here and follow his mystical journey accompanied by adversaries’ heads popping off in an ultra violent manner, I think you may have a winner on your hands. Highly stylized cinematography may even allow a buxom Rachel with her impossibly huge and impossibly heavy hammer (yes, hammer) swinging around popping enemies into the air. Just imagine everything in the Matrix except it’s like a ninja fantasy world.

4. DEVIL MAY CRY

DMC is a perfect candidate for a screen adaptation because you have a cooler than ice hero private eye that has a hotter than hell partner in crime, Trish. Capcom, known for their outrageous character designs have brought us Dante: a flaming sword, twin pistol-wielding demon hunter that can morph into a demon himself. Tell me that that’s not a righteous special effects extravaganza waiting to happen.

3. FALLOUT

Do this post-apocalyptic story that’s part Half-Life and part Resident Evil. Go through this ruined landscape facing hordes of mutants and give the camera plenty of slow-mo opportunities to watch the armaments fly into their torsos and have them explode into a wondrous gelatinous blood bomb. A definite R rating. Let’s steer clear from Dwayne Johnson’s Doom, and think more Clive Owen’s Children of Men in terms of depth
…except with mutants.

2. SOUL CALIBUR (direct-to-video cg animation)

Even though we have a live action Tekken feature coming up, I think a cg film would accommodate the Soul series best as possible. It doesn’t take too much imagination to get the visual feel of it since most Soul Calibur games have had gorgeous CG in their games already. Just take that quality animation and make it a full length feature about Siegfried’s quest for the Soul Edge and how it turns him into Nightmare and have him face the robust cast of characters the series has garnered throughout the years. Here are some stills of the outrageous Ivy that could be easily implemented.

1. GOD OF WAR

There was heavy internet buzz awhile back that Brett Ratner was going to try to ruin a God of War film. Thank every god in the pantheon that that was aborted or was simply a cruel joke taken way too far. A movie starring Kratos needs to be a slaughterfest somewhere in between 300 and Clash of the Titans. Stylized blood effects and mythological beasts with the scale of Lord of the Rings. Testosterone heavy with harems and goddesses wearing far too little just as the game does to appeal to anyone with heavy affinity to male juvenile subject matter.