7 of the best computer game adaptations

1WARCRAFT (2016)

THE Warcraft universe of the video game switched to the big screen with British actor Dominic Cooper and Clancy Brown among the cast.

2PRINCE OF PERSIA (2010)

JAKE GYLLENHAAL hit the gym to play the adventurous Prince Dastan, from the video games, with Gemma Arterton as the princess who guards the secret of time travel.

3DOOM (2005)

DWAYNE JOHNSON leads a team of tough space marines who are brought in to battle the ultimate killing machines. The sci-fi horror is based on the video game which came out in 1993.

4RESIDENT EVIL (2002)

MILLA JOVOVICH faces a zombie horde threat in the first of the Resident Evil films. She trained for three months to bring her video game character to life.

5LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER (2001)

TREASURE hunter Lara Croft in the video games sports a 36DD bustline so Angelina Jolie wore a little extra padding to make her a 36D for the action movie.

6MORTAL KOMBAT (1995)

THE fate of the world rests in the hands of three martial artists in this action adventure based on the 1992 video game. The movie, which starred Christopher Lambert, spent three weeks at the top of the American box office.

7SUPER MARIO BROS (1993)

THE first video game to be turned into a movie. Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo star as heroic Italian plumbers Mario and Luigi with Easy Rider actor Dennis Hopper joining in the fun as King Koopa.