Upon finishing up Batman Begins on the PS2, I was up for another DC-themed movie game, so what do I reach and grab off my shelf? Catwoman, based on the infamously disastrous Halle Barry vehicle from 2004, where instead of being a thief she’s a literal CAT-Woman. Wait, shouldn’t it then be titled Cat-Woman, like Spider-Man? Sometimes…sometimes…
I had to pick the title for this piece just right, as I didn’t want to trick people into thinking I was going to step onto the landmine argument of who’s better, DC or Marvel. Short answer: both are great, don’t worry about the publisher of your comics, just worry about the story, art, and characters,…
When it comes to movie tie-in games, the Dark Knight has a pretty great track record. Discounting Acclaim’s work on Batman Forever and Batman and Robin (though admittedly I have yet to get my hands on the pricey Batman Forever the arcade game) both Batman: The Video Game from Sunsoft and Batman Returns from Konami…
A lot of the news surrounding Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham has been about the incredibly awesome 60’s Batman characters, but let’s not forgot about all the cool characters in the present DC Universe as well. To celebrate the release of Lego Batman 3 in October, DC will have special Lego variant covers for select…
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…
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.…
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…
As promised in Part 1, here’s a look at some more cancelled DC games. THE FLASH (PS3/XBOX 360) This is the second of the two cancelled comic book games that died with the shuttering of publisher Brash Entertainment. The Flash was being developed by Bottlerocket Entertainment, a studio composed of staff that worked on the…
Real talk: I’m really excited to play Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, I have been ever since I finished putting the finishing touches on the PS4 version of Lego Marvel Super Heroes. I want to explore space with Batman, Robin and the entire Justice League…HOWEVER, given the amount of amazing looking Batman 60’s content coming…
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