Tobey McGuire

So, have you stopped shuddering at Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s digital Kevin Spacey yet? It’s so much like him, but, at the same time, so much unlike him. It takes you deep into the uncanny valley, the concept that a human image gets more disturbing the closer it gets to looking lifelike without actually matching 100 percent. And digital Kevin Spacey is far from the first time video game makers have marched down into this valley. Some of these attempts are pretty pedestrian. But some, they get a little strange. Here are five of my favorite earlier attempts at putting movie, music, and TV stars in you video game box.   Bruce Willis in Apocalypse So the original idea behind Neversoft’s Apocalypse for the original PlayStation was that Bruce Willis would be a helper/companion character that would follow the player around. When they couldn’t get that to work, they decided to make him the star, with the appropriately action movie name “Trey Kincaid.” The game is  dark, sometimes frustratingly