Star Trek Into Darkness director JJ Abrams has expressed his disappointment with the film's video game tie-in.

Speaking to GamerHub TV at an Into Darkness DVD launch event, Abrams said that he felt "emotionally hurt" by the poor quality of the game.

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"The last game, which was obviously a big disappointment to me, was something that we were actually involved in at the very beginning and then we sort of realised that it was not going in a place where we were going to get what we wanted, so we dropped out," Abrams explained.

"To me the video game could have been something that actually really benefitted the series and was an exciting, fun game with great gameplay.

"And instead, it was not, and was something that I think, for me emotionally it hurt, because we were working our asses off making the movie and then this game came out and it got, this isn't even my opinion, it got universally panned.

"I think that it was something without question that didn't help the movie and arguably hurt it."

Abrams went on to say that video games based on movies rarely work, with the majority feeling like they've been made to capitalise on the film.

Gallery: Images of Star Trek: The Game:Gaming: Star Trek: The GameAbrams is, however, working with Valve on a number of projects, and feels that games based on movies and vice-versa will only work if they're built from the ground up.

"Anything that is based on something else, it needs to exist on its own terms. And a lot of times these seem to exist as an ancillary product, in which case it will suck," he added.

Star Trek: The Game was developed by Digital Extremes, the studio behind The Darkness 2, Dark Sector and BioShock 2's multiplayer.

It featured original dialogue from Star Trek actors Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg and Karl Urban.

> Read Digital Spy's Star Trek: The Game review

Watch the Star Trek Video Game launch trailer below:

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