Video game adaptations are officially dead, and the upcoming Far Cry show proves that; let me explain. Disney and FX recently announced an upcoming Far Cry TV adaptation of Ubisoft's long-running open-world first-person shooter game. It is, in fact, just the most recent television show or movie that is based on a video game in recent memory. Some other notable examples include Fallout , The Last of Us , Sonic the Hedgehog , and many more.

So, movies and TV shows based on video games are clearly alive and well. Video game adaptations, however, are dead, and there's an important distinction to be made. There are direct adaptations of video games, movies or shows where the story of a game is directly translated from an interactive format to a passive one, and there are adapta

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