11 Action Heroes that Deserve their Own Game

6- The Bride

11 Action Heroes that Deserve their Own Game

Previously Kicked Ass In: Kill Bill Volume 1, Kill Bill Volume 2

Why She'd Make a Great Game Hero: The Kill Bill movie franchise was developed in such a way that we're surprised it never spawned a videogame adaptation. A sultry and stylish woman hell-bent on revenge hacks and slashes through a group of assassins, leaving buckets of blood and body parts in her wake. They get progressively stronger and cooler-looking--exactly like you'd expect in boss battles throughout the course of a game. Unfortunately, a planned Kill Bill game in the works during the movie's development never came to pass, and probably won't come to fruition unless Tarantino decides to tack on a few more sequels to The Bride's saga.

5- John Rambo

11 Action Heroes that Deserve their Own Game

Previously Kicked Ass In: First Blood, Rambo: First Blood: Part II, Rambo III, Rambo

Why He'd Make a Great Game Hero: Not counting the miserably bad Rambo game that came out on the NES (the one Angry Video Game Nerd tore apart) or the equally awful Rambo III and Rambo cell phone game, Sly Stallone's portrayal of an ex-NAM Green Beret killing machine has never properly been brought to the video game universe. If John Rambo does not deserve to be immortalized in his own high-quality next-gen video game, which would no doubt fall into the shoot 'em up subgenre of action, playing out like a cross between Contra and Metal Gear Solid, mowing down enemies with both brute force and using Rambo's signature guerilla warfare tactics. Even in his 60s, Stallone is still playing the character, proving that Rambo never gets too tear a man's throat out with only his bare hands!

4- Snake Pliskin

11 Action Heroes that Deserve their Own Game

Previously Kicked Ass In: Escape from New York, Escape from L.A.

Why He'd Make a Great Game Hero: It's well known that the eye-patch wearing raspy-voiced protagonist from John Carpenter's sci-fi action film series heavily inspired Hideo Kojima when he created Solid Snake of the Metal Gear Solid series--Kojima even stated in interviews that he's a big fan of the movies. Snake Pliskin is dying to be put into a game where you crack criminals' skulls in the post-apocalyptic streets of major cities. Take the open-world mayhem of Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, sprinkle in some Gears of War combat, and place it into the backdrop of Escape from New York/L.A. and you've got one hell of a game. Kurt Russell may be getting too old for the cancelled Escape from Earth movie, but we say, why not turn Snake's final escape in the trilogy into a game?

3- RoboCop

11 Action Heroes that Deserve their Own Game

Previously Kicked Ass In: RoboCop, RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3

Why He'd Make a Great Game Hero: Yes, there were a handful of games based on the RoboCop film franchise, but that was a bazillion years ago-the last one coming out in the early 90s, and with a new RoboCop film on the way (planned for 2010 release), there's no better time to have the bulletproof law enforcement agent star in his own video game. Many action games that are set in the present put the player in the role of the law breaker (GTA IV and Saints Row), and frankly we're a bit tired of not getting the opportunity to play for the other team. A game where you play as just a regular old cop? Lame. But a game where you play as RoboCop, soaking up lead as he's using his sub-auto pistol, would be awesome.

2- Max "Mad Max" Rockatansky

11 Action Heroes that Deserve their Own Game

Previously Kicked Ass In: Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Why He'd Make a Great Game Hero: With gas prices being as outrageous as they are nowadays, some of us may get the feeling that we're already on our way to living in our own version of Mad Max. But until that apocalyptic time comes, we want a game based on George Miller's awesome Mad Max series, which would simultaneously prepare us for the battles that'll rage during the end of the world and let relive the glory of the Mad Max movies, smashing through blood-thirsty Aussie motorcycle gangs as Mel Gibson's pre-Lethal Weapon role as an Outback policeman. A new, next-gen Twisted Metal-style game is already long-overdue, so why not make Mad Max: The Video Game happen?

1- Man With No Name

11 Action Heroes that Deserve their Own Game

Previously Kicked Ass In: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Why He'd Make a Great Game Hero: The greatest gaming gunslingers have been the strong, silent type. Men like Master Chief, Doom's space marine, and Marcus Fenix kept their mouths shut and let their firearms do the talking, which endeared them to audiences even more. Sounds like the template laid down by Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, the outlaw cowboy from Sergio Leone's trilogy of westerns. In between laying out the Rojos in the original, decimating El Indio's gang in the second movie, or winning the three-way duel in the third, Eastwood's character has engaged in some amazing gunfights that would easily translate into the gaming realm. At the very least, it would give us another western game we've so eagerly pined for.

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TKK

A Running Man video game would be so freaking sweet. And give me a badass Western shooter with the Man with No Name in it NOW.

BlackMidget8

Gamepro! You forgot another very important strong and silent type. Gordan Freeman!!! I believe you guys said it yourself. Half Life 2 was better than Halo 2. HAH!

ChokaDaChicken

Hey the Nes had games for some of these characters but a new Robocop would be awesome

Inphinity

mad max would be awesome game. they should make it like a cross of max payne and road rash.... now that would be cool. why steven segal there? was that a typo....lol

Beefcake

Why hasn't Rambo had a strong game? perfect for it. And why can't there be a good Western/Shooter game? If someone could make one (and Not Call of Juarez), a Clint Eastwood-based character would rule!

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