You got most of it right, far as games go it was just the typical rework and scramble of current hot games with a girl. Then bikini volleyball came out and that type of game dried up. As it didn't need to be an action game, just needed sexy girls.
Which will make it a good movie franchise as it not like Doom or anything.
Its more like laura Croft with that type of fan base.
Doom didn't work movie wise to a point as it has to much of a hard core gamer fan base that pick apart the story line and movie. The typical fan going to see it, knows to much.
Where that didn't happen with the LC movies.
Just needs a hot chick and...... success
Your best off going in with eyes wide open not knowing much.
Course I could be wrong on all this fact wise but how I see it.
That Ultra Violet movie she is very similar in the matrix way,
she was smoking hot in. It comes on syfy now n then.