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…
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 10/15/2013 Leading up to the October 25th release of Batman: Arkham Origins, as opposed to reviewing or featuring Asylum and City, I thought it would be more original to look at the previous comic book themed games created by WB Games Creative Director, Eric Holmes and another thematic origin game.…
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 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 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…
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