NOTE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM Prior to their acquisition by Glu Mobile, developer Griptonite Games seemed to be the go to company for hand held iterations of super hero games. The company worked on games starring Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Green Lantern and two different versions of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. While some of their…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/25/2013 If the Game Boy Advance version of X2: Wolverine’s Revenge didn’t have the aesthetics from comics that were published around the year 2000, it would be easy to mistake it for a long lost game from the SNES and Genesis era. Simply put, this game was quite a surprise…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/24/2013 X2: Wolverine’s Revenge is a game that is very deceptive in it’s marketing. It was released close the the release of X2: X-Men United in theaters, features the “X2” logo, Hugh Jackman’s likeness on the cover art, as well as Patrick Stewart as the voice of Professor X. In…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 07/24/2013 Around the time the X-Men film came out in 2000, publisher Activision became the holder of the X-Men video game license and in 2001 they would publish their first Wolverine game for the then soon to be on the way out Game Boy Color platform. Lady Deathstrike has developed…
In order to proper evaluate this game, I think it’s best to imagine yourself back in the early 90’s when this game came out: You’re an impressionable young kid who loves video games, comic books, cartoons, and you don’t have the luxury of the internet to provide you with up to date information on all…
NOTE: GAME WAS PLAYED ON iPOD TOUCH 5 A trend that has developed with every major comic themed film since 2013 is that it’s accompanied by a mobile game tie-in: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, Thor 2, Captain America 2 and more recently The Amazing Spider-Man 2 all had games launched on various mobile…
Man, what a disappointment. “But Blair,” you ask, “how could you be POSSIBLY be disappointed in the Game Boy Advance version of a movie tie-in game that launched next to a film that nearly killed the X-Men film franchise as we know it?” That is indeed a fair question, so I’ll elaborate: Upon researching the…
One of things in my opinion that made the original Nintendo DS the gigantic success it turned out to be was the unique touch screen interface. Before the advent of the mobile smart phone gaming renaissance, it truly was a unique handheld gaming device for it’s time with its touch screen and button combination. When…
The X-Men films are no stranger to tie-in video games: A few days before the original X-Men’s release date of July 14th, 2000 gamers were able to pick up the underrated PSOne fighting game X-Men: Mutant Academy from publisher Activision, and several weeks before the first weekend of May release of X2: X-Men United, a…
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