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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

Fun Fact #1: This adaptation of Labyrinth was released solely in Japan.
Fun Fact #2: The Japanese believe David Bowie is the devil.



Contestant, your answer is... "shit."
You can probably figure out the question.




Keanu Reeves spent most of the '80s and early '90s on the same magnitude of dorkiness as professional doofuses like Pauly Shore and Howie Mandel. So we shouldn't be at all surprised when he looks silly in Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure for NES. (Thanks for including "Video Game" in the title, by the way. How would we have possibly known otherwise?)

That said, he looks extremely silly in the montage above. Way beyond the Pauly and Howie scale, and more along the lines of a Renaissance Faire reject. To be accurate, a crappy xerox of a Renaissance Faire reject.


Anyone who's played the original Tony Hawk game remembers how friggin' difficult it is to get the skater to turn directly towards the camera. Now we can finally see why. When your face has rearranged itself four times in four seconds, you might want to call a doctor. If you're the real Tony Hawk, you might want to call a lawyer. That degree of ugly should be actionable.


Sure, this Darkman screen kinda resembles Liam Neeson... if Liam Neeson rubbed his face off with an electric sander, injected bee pollen into his lips and took daily dips in a backyard oil well.

Yeah, other than that, we totally see it.



Remember that contest we teased at the beginning of the article? Because the screens above match so perfectly, our first idea was to ask readers to spot all the horrifying differences between the real Back to the Future Part III and the Sega Genesis version. Then we realized that number was somewhere in the gazillions and decided to scale back our competition to something in the actual realm of possibility.

Speaking of which...

You're now just one page away from our Worst Celebrity Renders contest! If you've been paying close enough attention throughout this list, and if you'd like to win a free game of your choosing, head to the next page for all the details and rules. Good luck!


 
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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