The Golden Compass
2007 · Shiny Entertainment and A2M
Source book
- Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) — Philip Pullman
Mostly the film, partly the novel, and finished from a shooting script the film then changed.
Platforms
PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360, Windows, Nintendo DS
Fidelity
Sega's 2007 game is the game of the film, and Wikipedia says it is also partly based on Pullman's 1995 novel Northern Lights. It was built from the shooting script. A late re-edit of the film's last half hour did not make it into the game, so the game's ending is not the film's either. Shiny developed most platforms; A2M did the DS.
Read first?
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When to read first
Read Northern Lights. The book finishes a story the film and the game both cut short, and they still spoil the part they cover.
02
When playing first is fine
There is little reason to play this before the book. Reviews at the time were largely negative, and several said the plot was hard to follow unless you already knew the film or the novel.
03
Why
A tie-in that cannot even keep up with its own film is not the version to meet first. The novel is.
Source
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Compass_(video_game)
The call above is an editorial reading of that public page. If the page and this note disagree, believe the page.
