change the game

Etymology

Probably from the ability of a player of a team sport who has been brought on to the field as a substitute to alter the outcome of the game.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃeɪn(d͡)ʒ ðə ˈɡeɪm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ ðə ˈɡeɪm/

Verb

change the game (third-person singular simple present changes the game, present participle changing the game, simple past and past participle changed the game)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To revolutionize a field of endeavor.
   • 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road Might Already be the Best Action Movie Ever Made”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 22 February 2018:

     Four years before Fury Road, the Welsh director Gareth Evans made the berserker Indonesian fight movie The Raid: Redemption, changing the game by reducing the action movie to its simplest elements, telling it with visceral style.