IS SPIDER-MAN 2 OVERRATED? A CASE FOR AN OPEN WORLD-LESS SPIDER-MAN GAME
Spider-Man 2 is the losing your virginity of Spider-Man games: You’ll never forget your first time, but it will never be your best time. Read any comments section in the review for a Spider-Man game from 2005 forwards and you’ll probably see a lot of “I loved Spider-Man 2! Why can’t they make another Spider-Man…
THE ONLY GOOD THING CARNAGE GAVE US WAS MAXIMUM CARNAGE
Carnage sucks. The end. No wait, come back, I’m not done, but at the same time I could probably sum up my opinion on the Spider-Man villain in those two short sentences. I don’t really get the excitement when it’s announced that an upcoming Venom movie from Sony may be titled Venom Carnage, what is…
NO ARKHAM KNIGHT, NO PROBLEM: BATMAN: RISE OF SIN TZU (PLAYSTATION 2)
With Batman: Vengeance, Ubisoft tried to mold too many genres into one game; It was part plat-former, part fighter, a first-person shooter at points, as well as a driving and flying game. For the follow-up in 2003, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Ubisoft took a far more basic approach to the design and the finished…
REVIEW: LEGO MARVEL SUPER HEROES: UNIVERSE IN PERIL (NINTENDO 3DS)
Make a short list of every thing you love about the Lego game series: Solving puzzles by building Lego objects, having the ability to swap between characters, utilizing unique character abilities to navigate levels, replaying levels at your own leisure for bonus collectibles, not being penalized for losing health or dying. These are some of the…
REVIEW: BATMAN: RETURN OF THE JOKER (GAME BOY)
As you may or may not recall from my review of Batman: Return of the Joker on the NES, I liked it quite a bit. It was a complete package of great controls, graphics, and music that made it a little slice of classic NES heaven. Reason stood to believe then that a version of…
THE LAND OF THE FORGOTTEN COMIC BOOK GAMES PART 5/FINALE
To close out this series, here’s a random assortment of cancelled games based on properties from several different publishers. 100 BULLETS (PS2/XBOX/PS3/XBOX 360) One of the newer properties in this feature to have a game based on it, 100 Bullets ran from 1999-2009 and was a winner of multiple Harvey Awards and an Eisner award.…
THE LAND OF THE FORGOTTEN COMIC BOOK GAMES PART 4
It’s time to look at another three Marvel games that were simply never meant to be. DAREDEVIL (GC/PS2/XBOX) Daredevil was being positioned as another big multimedia franchise from Marvel during the turn of the century. The comic series was a best-selling series under the Marvel Knights brand thanks in no small parts to writers like…
THE LAND OF THE FORGOTTEN COMIC BOOK GAMES PART 3
Let’s turn our attention from DC to Marvel, as we explore some unfortunate tragedies in their video game portfolio. X-MEN: MIND GAMES (SEGA 32X) The 32X was Sega’s final attempt to prolong the life of the Sega Genesis before the company moved into the 32-bit era with the Sega Saturn. Sega had somewhat of a…
REVIEW: BATMAN: VENGEANCE (GAMECUBE)
Ubisoft had a lot to make up for with their debut Batman game on the 6th generation of consoles: Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, a game they picked up the tab from Kemco didn’t do the publisher any favors, nor did their PSOne Batmobile game Gotham City Racer. The new generation brought with it…
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