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The Worst Celebrity Renders of All Time

Watch as videogames transform your favorite stars into unrecognizable monsters

Words: Charlie Barratt, GamesRadar US

 

We know what you're thinking. "Those don't look that bad!" Okay, so Cameron Diaz has been replaced with some generic extra straight out of central casting, Drew Barrymore has been replaced with the dude from Mask and Lucy Liu has been replaced by a shiny plastic bobble head. Relatively, though, they're pretty damn good.

Ah, but then you actually play the game...
(Warning: Playing of game not recommended.)


Above: Hellooooooo... ladies?

You may have wondered why Charlie's Angels only released on GameCube back in 2003. You're probably not wondering that anymore.



 

You know those sidewalk cartoonists who caricaturize celebrities by emphasizing and exaggerating their most infamous features? Who turn a big smile into the Joker's grin, or a prominent nose into Mount Everest? Something tells us one of them got a job working on Rambo for the NES.

Even funnier than Stallone's mouth breathing, jowl hanging 8-bit appearance, however, is how eerily it predicts his genuine appearance 20 years later. What was kind of cruel in 1988 has become completely accurate in 2008... though we're still not sure where the bright orange hair and chalk white skin came from.



 

Which Will Smith render reigns supreme? Bad Boys: Miami Takedown deserves definite props for recognizing that - yes - Will Smith's character does indeed wear a tank top in the movie. But Men in Black II: Alien Escape's rocking a suit and sunglasses combo. Now that's attention to detail!

Unfortunately, since the heads sitting atop both these meticulously reconstructed outfits bear absolutely no resemblance to Will Smith's actual head, we're going to have to disqualify them. If only we had a Legend of Bagger Vance render to show us the way...

Below: Does Martin Lawrence look any better in Bad Boys: Miami Takedown? Well, he does have a mustache...

 




We have a question for the folks who made Ghostbusters on Sega Genesis: What did Bill Murray do to you? Did he haunt your dreams as a child? Did he murder and devour your parents while dressed as a clown? Seriously, is there something we should know about this guy? We ask because you've portrayed him as not one, not two, but THREE totally different - yet equally sinister - monsters.

In the intro graphic - shown above - he watches us silently from the shadows, a killing machine as patient and persistent as Jason Voorhees. A few seconds later, he's Hannibal Lecter, leering at us hungrily through his plastic death mask.

When we finally start the game, we're greeted by his most unfamiliar, and therefore most frightening, form of all... something the villagers will no doubt name the Murraycapra or Billy Man, but which we can merely describe - for now - with a scream and a whimper.


 
23 Comments
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MultiGamer  - 1 year 1 month ago 
First! That Bill Murray one was hilarious, also the jackie chan one.
TheGreatHobbe  - 1 year 1 month ago 
everyone from spiderman 3 scares me
midknight8  - 1 year 1 month ago 
Bill murray killed my parents in a clown suit too...
Flopsy  - 1 year 1 month ago 
It's "fiesta" and not "siesta" under the Goldeneye entry. Fiesta is a party and siesta is a nap.
Rasy2kG  - 1 year 1 month ago 
I think Val Kilmer's render in will Willow is pretty bad ass
statuslegendary  - 11 months 30 days ago 
Spot on, I laughed so hard at the bit about Sly. Whoever crafted that gem of a likeness over at Nintendo is a genius!

Great article as usual.
kaoticfish  - 11 months 19 days ago 
lol great article.
crazyhand  - 10 months 5 days ago 
macaulay culkin looks like a bloody salizar from re4
Oxfordcomma4  - 8 months 29 days ago 
Chuck Norris = burger head on karate robes? FTW
Julia roberts = fairy butterfly thing? FT... wait... OK
Mavarious  - 8 months 7 days ago 
hehehe, that was hilarious
BuckyKat  - 8 months 6 days ago 
The developer of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves only had the rights to make a game based on the movie. They didn't get the rights to use any of the actor's likenesses which is why Robin Hood doesn't look anything like Kevin Costner nor do any of the other characters look like the actual actors that portrayed them.
Darkdraak21  - 8 months 6 days ago 
This one made me laugh very hard mostly at the bill murray one. This is absolutely one of your funniest articles.....EVER!
DUImonkey  - 8 months 16 hours ago 
man, i thought for sure the characters from the jackass game would make it in...
Forsakenday  - 7 months 10 days ago 
Hilarious. I love the create your own Goldeneye character. Awesome article.
youtouchedme2xtdar  - 6 months 13 days ago 
lovin it
LycanFox1  - 6 months 4 hours ago 
omg Harry Potter looks like a retard!
AtoMixxer  - 4 months 25 days ago 
Macaulay Culkin's rendering is positivally frighting.
Thelonius  - 3 months 27 days ago 
Fantastic artilce. Funniest thing i've seen all week!
Gsindahouse  - 3 months 26 days ago 
pretty funny, man
No, seriously...funny...real funny
WHAT THE HECK! on the spock thing, though
otherwise that joke about the propaganda poster was mercilessly hilarious
I'm in the middle of a library, okay go easy on me
SandroTheMaster  - 3 months 26 days ago 
"Fun Fact#2: The japanese believe David Bowie is the Devil"

For all the freaking Gods and Devils, the David Bowie one me laugh so hard I thought I'd die (again).

Also, the Macaulay Culkin's gave me a frightening flashback that I don't even know where it came from (and I really, really don't want to remember).
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