The game movie tie-in industry is affected by failed attempts to capitalize on a favored movie; and by failed, I mean the games that often tie-in to movies are hastily thrown together and simply forgotten. In other words, the games are bad. For an ideal example of this, take a look at J.J. Abrams reacting to the critical failure that was Star Trek: The Online game. Without doing any research whatsoever, I’ll still say it’s easier to call the successful movie tie-in games than it’s cataloging the complete failures.

In an international where Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher’s Bay and Goldeneye for the Nintendo 64 are still the quality, it’s easy to determine that distinctive niche has did not live as much as its potential.

With that during mind, please use cautious optimism when reacting to the teaser trailer for the approaching Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie tie-in game, which actually comes out before the movie does. The trailer doesn’t reveal much in regards to the game, but in spite of this, that’s why they call it a teaser: