NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/23/2013 I can’t think of an odder choice of a developer for a Superman game then the one attached to Superman Returns. Published by EA, Returns was crafted by EA Tiburon who are most famous for making sports game, specifically the Madden NFL series. I guess Superman hits people hard,…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/23/2013 Superman: Shadow of Apokolips comes to us courtesy of publisher Atari and internal developer Infogrames Sheffield house, who were known as Gremlin Interactive prior to them coming under the Atari umbrella. The story follows the events of Countdown to Apokolips on the Game Boy Advance with Darkseid working to…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/21/2013 I’ve said this in other reviews, heck I even did one for Superman 64, but Superman 64 is a bad game. It has terrible controls, bad character models and animation, you name it its got it. But the one thing that game let you do was play as Superman.…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/212/2013 You have to give Atari huge credit for publishing not one, but two Superman games inspired by the animated series. They followed in the wake of Titus Superman 64, and at a time when the series had been off the air for over two and a half years. Superman:…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/21/2013 I LIKE Superman 64. Bet you didn’t see that as an opening statement, huh? I’m not here to argue that Superman 64 is misunderstood, or good even, I know that it’s a bad game. It has horrid draw distance, stiff animation, odd character models, repetitive music, countless glitches, the…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/20/2013 Titus Software’s Superman 64 is renowned by many as one of the single worst video games to see release, and a black eye to the Man of Steel to boot. What most people don’t realize is that that piece of software was not the only Superman game that Titus…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/14/2013 1995 would see the war of the “comic book game based on major events”. In the corner of Marvel you had Maximum Carnage from LJN, and representing DC was the Death and Return of Superman from developer Blizzard and Publisher Sunsoft. The Death and return of Superman (DAROS) is…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/14/2013 Superman on the Sega Genesis hails from both developer and publisher Sunsoft. Comic fans might remember there name attached to the awesome NES Batman game based on the first Tim Burton film. Whereas that game was a well designed challenging game with tight controls, good level design and a reasonable…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/19/2013 I won’t argue that Superman on the NES is an excellent game by any stretch of the imagination. It’s ripe with spelling errors, odd dialogue, and weird design choices like Superman having to ride a subway wherein he’s the smallest one on the train. I do however think that…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/19/2013 Man of Steel the game hails from developer Phosphor games, a relatively new studio who crafted games like Kinect Adventures for the Xbox 360 and the mobile game based on the upcoming film inspired by World War Z. It can be downloaded at cost of $2.99 for both iOS…
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