During the last years, the video games have been very present in the popular culture by the hand of film adaptations or in series format. Although the format aimed at the big screen has large budgets, in most cases, movies do not capture the essence of video games well and they stay halfway. However, there are exceptions that do they are very worth seeinglike the ones we analyze in our article Top video game movies: from the console to the big screen.
Unlike the movies, it seems that the series are capturing y transmitting the essence of the video game better, surely because they have a less limited footage. Today we bring you series that are very worth watching, all of them less than 5 years old!
Top series based on video games
The Last of Us (2023)
The Last of Us was one of the greatest hits which many were skeptical about. Such has been its success that won several awards in 2023 for the best series, adaptation and casting (among others) and it has been confirmed that it will make a second season, which already has its first trailer.
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The plot adapts the game 2013, focused on the history of Joel, a survivor of infection with the Cordyceps fungal mutation, and Ellie, a girl immune to the fungus. We, as viewers, accompany them on their dangerous mission to travel across the United States to help develop a cure to save humanity.
Far from being an imitation of The Walking Deadtraps the viewer in an emotional epic. With a setting careful, some protagonists very well chosen and a plot about pain and its overcoming and bond between a grieving father and a lost girl, it is impossible to tear yourself away from the screen, just as the game already managed.
Fallout (2024)
The series based on the cult saga Falloutset in a post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war, has achieved the public approval and the confirmation of a second season. In this world, to ensure the preservation of the human species, underground shelters to which only those people selected according to somewhat dubious criteria in certain cases could.
The story of the series takes us when, 200 years after the conflict, a group of people who have lived within one of these shelters They are forced to leave and discover how much the planet has changed. This story with dyes nuclear punk that mixes the black humor and the violence focuses on three characters: Lucy, an optimistic and naive nuclear shelter inhabitant, Maximus, a young soldier of the Brotherhood of Steely Ghoul, a bounty hunter of ambiguous morals whose body has been horribly mutated by radiation.
League of Legends: Arcane (2021)
Arcane, the most expensive animated series in history, is set in the past of the world of Runaterra and focuses on the origins of iconic championslike Jinx y Vi.
In the streets of Fence, Vi and Powder grow up together like sisters orphans because of the war. At one point they become involved in a robbery that goes wrong and they end up separated. Meanwhile, in the prosperous city of Piltover, the scientists Jayce y Victor They work on developing the technology Hextech, an invention that harnesses magic through science.
As the first season progresses, magic and science collide giving us food for thought about how something that could be so beneficial for everyone, can end up becoming one of their worst nightmares. With the second season just released on Netflix, it’s the perfect time to watch it!
The Witcher (2019)
Let’s see, being strict we must say that before it was a video game it was a novel. The origin of the saga dates back to 1986 when the Polish writer Andrej Sapkowski launched the prelude to the adventures of Geralt de Rivia in a magazine about stories of the fantastic genre, the germ of what would end up being a 8 book saga.
From those books, CD Projekt Red created a rich and complex world where humans, monsters and magic coexist. The plot of both the video games and the series follows Geralt de Riviaa sorcerer of the School of the Wolf who dedicates himself to hunting creatures for money. However, her destiny is intertwined with that of the princess. Features and the sorceress Yenneferso they must complement each other to survive the dangers that threaten them.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)
It is considered one of the best video game series in Netflix of all time. Based on the dystopian future of the video game Cyberpunk 2077also from CD Projekt Redit all starts with David Martineza young man who lives on the streets of the megalopolis known as Night City. After a series of unfortunate events, he decides to become mercenary and use cybernetic implants to survive, what is known as a edgerunner. A very moving story that shows the evolution of the protagonist as a result of his decisions and the hard life that he has carried.
This is our selection of some of the best series that have been made about video games so far. Hopefully at some point we will end up watching stories as fascinating as Bioshock o Grand Theft Auto V. What is your top? Would you like them to do a series of your favorite game? We read you in the comments!
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