NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 02/01/2013 To say that I’m excited for Lego Marvel Super Heroes is an understatement. As a Marvel fan and someone who collects and writes about comic themed video games, it’s nothing short of a dream come true. However, my enthusiasm for a Lego themed Marvel game actually came about when…
Yesterday marked one of the most important dates for super heroes in cinematic history: It was the 25th anniversary of the cinematic debut of Tim Burton’s Batman. That film was one of the progenitor super hero films, along with Richard Donner’s Superman, and it showed the world that The Dark Knight could be more than just a…
Taking something that you think wouldn’t fit into the racing genre and making it work is not something uncommon in the video game world: Last month saw the launch of the 8th iteration of the Mario Kart franchise on the Wii U and has helped greatly in bolstering the sales of the struggling console; Diddy…
This past spring when I exited the theater after seeing the pseudo-sequel/prequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, it totally slipped my mind that when the first 300 film came out in 2007, there was a tie-in game released with it. Forgetting about a PSP game shouldn’t be that uncommon a thing, as the system slipped…
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…
Beat-em-ups as a genre are repetitive by nature: punch some guys, move right, punch some more guys, more than likely ride an elevator, fight a boss, rinse, repeat until games end. What helps alleviate some of the tedium is being able to bring along a friend for the ride. In the arcade, where the games…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 02/23/2013 Daredevil’s popularity had picked up immensely in the late 1990′s/early 2000′s. The comic was taken to new heights under the Marvel Knights label by writers like filmmaker Kevin Smith and Ultimate Spider-Man creator Brian Michael Bendis, and eventually the character would see a debut on the big screen…
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…
Discussing the third chapter in the second season of Telltale’s The Walking Dead is difficult to do, as much of what transpires here hinges on having played episode 2 and even this episode. Without steering into any potential spoilers, episode three feels like Telltale is trying to accomplish something that is intended to shock its…
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…
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