The novelization based on, as well as the actual game Rage, is based on an alternate future, where the end of the world is caused by impact with 99942 Apophis.

Indeed, the marketing of a major film often includes a novelization, a graphic novel or comic version, the soundtrack album, a game, model, toys and endless promotional publications.

For the game's re-release on GOG. com a second, more accurate, novelization produced by Rhyss Hess was bundled with the game, based on the game script by Chris Avellone and Colin McComb.

A novelization of the game titled was released in Japan in 2004.

In the novelization of the game Doom, the main protagonist Flynn Taggart is a corporal in the United States Marine Corps at the beginning of the story, though he later receives a promotion to Sergeant.

* Joint Strike Force, a faction in the Tom Clancy's EndWar video game and novelization

There was a subsequent novelization of the film by Alan Dean Foster, as well as a video game based on the production.

For example, a novelization might be done of a video game, which was based on a television show, based on a movie, based on a comic book which was the original media property.

The novelization of the game, Halo: The Flood ( 2003 ), describes additional events not seen in the game.

A novelization of the game written by Raymond Benson and published by Del Ray.

A collaboration with Vox Day, Rebel Moon was the novelization of the prequel of the game Rebel Moon Rising.

A manga novelization of the game was authored by Akira Himekawa.

* Tir McDohl, the name given to the protagonist in the Japanese novelization and radio drama adaptation of the video game Suikoden

In October 2003, Black Library Publishing released a novelization of the game under the same title ( Spurrier, 2003 ).

A novelization of the game was written by Drew Karpyshyn and released in September 2001.

Feist later wrote Krondor: The Betrayal, a novelization of the game and the first in a series of new Midkemia books called The Riftwar Legacy.

There is a novelization of the game by Philip Athans.

The novels Halo: The Fall of Reach and Halo: First Strike, which serve as prequels and sequels to the video game Halo: Combat Evolved, were written before and after the novelization of the game.

In the 2003 novelization of the game, Halo: The Flood, Cortana likewise plays an important role.

The background and some terminology of the game (" The Zone ", " Stalker ") is borrowed from the popular science fiction novella Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky and the 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker that was loosely based on it, as well as Stalker, the film's subsequent novelization by the original authors.

Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

As with their previous DC story adaptations, it was based on the novelization rather than the comic.

The film was adapted by George Seaton from a novelization of Bernadette's story, written by Franz Werfel.

He also wrote the novelization of the graphic novel Kingdom Come based on the story by Mark Waid, and a novel featuring the Marvel mutant superhero team Generation X.

Steven Barnes's novelization of " Far Beyond the Stars " partners with Greg Cox's The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh ( Volume Two ) to tell us that the story " Far Beyond the Stars " — and, by extension, all of Star Trek itself — is the creation of 1950s writer Benny Russell.

* A Study in Terror — 1966 ( Movie tie-in or novelization of a movie of the same name about Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper, with Ellery Queen added as a character in the framing story.

For the first eight months Scamp had continuity and was written by Ward Greene, the King Features editor whose short story and novelization contributed to the development of the storyline for Lady and the Tramp.

The first was a novelization of the first two miniseries combined into one story, originally planned as 2 books, Pinnacle later changed their minds during its writing, and decreed that it should be one book ( The publishers were then left with the option of another book, this became " East coast crisis " ) Because the Writers guide was not ready in time for the authors to consult, most of the original novels that followed did not feature characters or continuing storylines from the TV series, but rather focused on battles against the alien invaders in other parts of the world, some were also set during the " unrecorded year " between the end of " The Final battle " and " Liberation day " to get around this problem.

The novelization of that movie provided a different reason for the use of books: sabotage by somebody working on the Starfleet side of the conspiracy uncovered by the crew in the story, but the novelization is not part of the Star Trek canon.

Greene later wrote a novelization of the film that was released two years before the film itself, at Walt Disney's insistence, so that audiences would be familiar with the story.

But this seems to be a " novelization " of the play, stitched together with bits from Twine ; Wilkins mentions the play in the Argument to his version of the story – so that Wilkins ' novel derives from the play, not the play from the novel.

Other times, however, a novelization of the film based on the story may be published, such as Total Recall.

A novelization written by Piers Anthony was published instead of a tie-in book containing the story that the film was based on, Dick's " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ".

* An Unearthly Child ( or variants thereof ): The title of the first episode, used by the 1973 Radio Times Tenth Anniversary Special and subsequently by the 1976 edition of The Making of Doctor Who, with much subsequent commercial use, including the novelization, VHS and DVD releases of the story.

A novelization of the story was released in conjunction with the film.

Raymond F. Jones then did a novelization of the complete story into full book form and it was first published in 1952 by Shasta Press.

An introductory title screen – repeated as the Foreword to the 1946 novelization by Eric Warman – contains an explicit statement: " This is the story of two worlds, the one we know and another which exists only in the mind of a young airman whose life and imagination have been violently shaped by war ", adding " Any resemblance to any other world known or unknown is purely coincidental ".

The Kingdom Come story, in which the Blue Beetle took part, has been adapted as an audio drama by John Whitman, based on the story by Mark Waid and Alex Ross and the novelization by Elliot S. Maggin ( Time Warner Audio Books, 1998 ).

While in high school, he submitted for a " Creative Writing assignment " a novelization of Chris Claremont's X-Men and the Starjammers story, which gained him an A + grade for imagination and inventiveness.

This original story outline is included in the BBC Books novelization ( see below ).

* In the novelization of the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, written by Peter George, an explanation is given that the title character, " Dr. Strangelove ", had been wounded, and these wounds had left him with only one hand, and wheelchair-bound, because of the bombings of Peenemünde while he worked there for Nazi Germany.

In " non-canon " Trek-related literature, such as the novelization of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Vulcans are depicted as immune to the effects of alcohol ( though in the TOS episode " The Naked Time " a strange affliction infects the crew, that has much the same effect as alcohol, and Spock is also affected and becomes emotional, and even starts to cry ).

In Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ( 1983 ), set six months after The Empire Strikes Back ( in the novelization ), Obi-Wan Kenobi appears on Dagobah to talk with Luke, who has learned from a dying Yoda that Vader is indeed his father.

According to the novelization, it is the first time that Yoda encounters the spirit of a Jedi who has passed into the Force.

In The Phantom Menace novelization by Terry Brooks, he is portrayed as a great deal braver than his film counterpart, standing his ground when Padmé holds him at gunpoint, and even standing up to Sidious, who accuses Gunray of defying him.

In the novelization of Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover, Gunray is described as treacherous, venal, and cowardly.

( Wallace is also the author of the film's novelization.

The novelization by Mac Rauch is told through fake documents written and compiled by Reno Nevada, and further expands on the backstory of the film, including the murder of Peggy Banzai ( her twin sister Penny plays a role in the movie ) by the minions of Asian crime lord Hanoi Xan, the deaths of Buckaroo's parents in an early Jet Car accident, and at least two other fictitious novels.

In the novelization " A View To A Thrill ", it is explained that he was shot in the mouth during a bank robbery and " to save his life, the doctors had given him a set of metal teeth, and motors for jaw muscles.

In the film ( further explained in the film's novelization ) it is partly revealed that he is a disgraced knight from the kingdom of Galladoorn.

In the film's novelization, her father is revealed as the king of Tir Asleen, which becomes a further factor for Sorsha to turn against her mother.

In the X-Men: The Last Stand novelization, Sage is a new student at the mansion being trained by Wolverine, along with Cannonball, Danielle Moonstar, and Gambit.

Tinker Bell ( often misspelled as Tinkerbell, also referred to as Tink for short ), is a fictional character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy.

The novelization of Mobile Suit Gundam is even more obvious about a romance between Amuro and Sayla.

Pyro's fate is unknown, although the novelization describes Iceman carrying him to safety as the facility around them collapses.

There is also a novelization of Arachnophobia written by author Nicholas Edwards.