When it came to bringing Captain America: Super Soldier to the Wii, and eventually the 3DS, Sega looked to High Voltage Software, who also brought Iron Man 2 to the Wii and PSP handheld. The results are something far better than those mediocre games even managing to have some better qualities to the superior game…
When it came to bringing arcade games to the under-powered NES, developers normally chose to go one of two routes: Craft a graphically inferior or somewhat downgraded port of the coin-op experience (i.e Capcom’s Ghosts N’ Goblins, Konami’s TMNT II: The Arcade game,) or just take the name of the game and make something completely…
Prior to the release of Spider-Man: Edge of Time on the Nintendo DS, development duties for Spider-Man games on the DS had fallen on Griptonite Games who created some pretty great “metroidvania” style games featuring the web-slinger with Web of Shadows and Shattered Dimensions. That particular studio was purchased by Glu Mobile in 2011 to work…
Who would’ve thought that in order to create the single best Captain America video game experience to date, you’d have to turn to the Great White North. Such is the case with Captain America: Super Soldier for the PS3/Xbox360 from publisher Sega and Vancouver based developer Next Level Games. Captain America: Super Soldier can be…
In the 90’s, comic book games and the beat-em-up genre went together like peanut butter and jelly: X-Men, Spider-Man, The Punisher, Superman, and Batman all got their turn and of course there’s Data East’s Captain America and the Avengers. Though originally a coin-op game, it would make its way to the SNES and Sega Genesis…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/14/2013 Superman: The Man of Steel is bit of an oddity when it comes to comic book based games, as it was published by a company that had the rights to both the animated and comic book side of the character. Publisher Atari also put out the “Apokolips” games based…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/29/2013 Compared to other comic book characters like say a Spider-Man or a Batman, Spawn has only appeared in five games, but there’s a fair amount of variety in that hand full of titles: traditional side-scrolling action games, a 3-D adventure/fighting game hybrid and a multi-player focused arena action game.…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/29/2013 Capcom is no stranger to licensed games, having crafted dozens of superb games based on the Disney license in the 8 and 16-bit era that are still well regarded by many today. They’ve also been known to dabble in the Marvel Comics world as well: you might know of…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10//22/2013 Does Konami really need any introduction when it comes to the ethical treatment of a license in the video game industry? I mean really, let’s run down the list a little: TMNT IV: Turtles In Time, Bucky O’Hare, X-Men and the Simpsons in the arcade, Buster Busts loose, The…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/18/2013 1997 was a HUGE year for the Spawn franchise: the comic book series was at the peak of its popularity, action figures featuring the character lined toy shore shelves, the HBO series debuted to an overwhelming positive reception and the first (and to this date, only) live action film…
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