REVIEW: SUPERMAN (GAME BOY)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/20/2013 Titus Software’s Superman 64 is renowned by many as one of the single worst video games to see release, and a black eye to the Man of Steel to boot. What most people don’t realize is that that piece of software was not the only Superman game that Titus…

REVIEW: THE DEATH AND RETURN OF SUPERMAN (SEGA GENESIS)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/14/2013 1995 would see the war of the “comic book game based on major events”. In the corner of Marvel you had Maximum Carnage from LJN, and representing DC was the Death and Return of Superman from developer Blizzard and Publisher Sunsoft. The Death and return of Superman (DAROS) is…

REVIEW: SUPERMAN (SEGA GENESIS)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/14/2013 Superman on the Sega Genesis hails from both developer and publisher Sunsoft. Comic fans might remember there name attached to the awesome NES Batman game based on the first Tim Burton film. Whereas that game was a well designed challenging game with tight controls, good level design and a reasonable…

REVIEW: MAN OF STEEL (iOS)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/19/2013 Man of Steel the game hails from developer Phosphor games, a relatively new studio who crafted games like Kinect Adventures for the Xbox 360 and the mobile game based on the upcoming film inspired by World War Z. It can be downloaded at cost of $2.99 for both iOS…

NO ARKHAM KNIGHT, NO PROBLEM: BATMAN: THE VIDEO GAME (NES)

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…

BATTLE A GIANT SCARECROW IN PS4 EXCLUSIVE BATMAM: ARKHAM KNIGHT DLC

Ask anyone who has played any or all of the four chapters in the Batman “Arkham” series of games, and they’ll probably say one of their favorite parts in the series were the Scarecrow  induced hallucination sections found in the debut game, Batman: Arkham Asylum. Those who pick up the game on the PS4 will…

MICROSOFT DEBUNKS KEVIN CONROY; BATMAN: ARKHAM KNIGHT IN FEBRUARY?

Long time voice actor Kevin Conroy dropped a bomb shell recently when he implied that the anticipated and recently delayed into 2015 Batman: Arkham Knight would arrive in January. According to recent listing on the Microsoft store, Conroy missed the mark…but not by that much though. Microsoft has listed the release date for Batman: Arkham…

MARRYING A COMIC WITH A VIDEO GAME PART 1

In my discussion of why I thought Batman: Arkham Asylum worked, I mentioned how it was due largely to the fact that it took the Batman character and merged it with Nintendo’s long-standing Metroid franchise. I then began to think about what other games would be great templates to join to a comic book character…

REVISITING THE IDEA OF A GREEN ARROW VIDEO GAME

A little over a year ago, I wrote a post on my comicbookmovie.com account about how it’s perhaps the right time to seriously take into consideration the development of a Green Arrow video game. I want to revisit the topic after I saw a comment made by “Arrow” star Stephen Amell on his facebook page…