It Would Work

[Sepai]

The way i see it you could do the story in few ways

1 The start of the game Howard's story
2 the game with modification to make watchable
3 Following after the game finish

1

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would be OK to do but we know the ending Howard killing him self or leaving the audience thinking he made know one else come down to the mine etc.

2 can be done to a good movie but changes will have to be made and most likely leave a bad taste in my mouth for the movie for having to make some changes

3

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well this one will be better since Hollywood can have their action flick exterminating the hive based on co-ordnance sent by Philip that will have the audience discovering what happened. While us players having a nostalgic feel hearing when they discover what happened similar to the game (especially if they find Philip) You can have some one in the sect with his own mission different to the assault team that leads them to disaster make it a a survival gun running horror to the hive mind

any way that is the way I look at how any move based on it can go
number 3 feels the best to me