REVIEW: IRON MAN 2 (XBOX 360)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/02/2013 Iron Man 2 would once again be developed by Secret Level games, who were renamed Sega Studios San Francisco. The hope from publisher Sega was that by bringing in Secret Level under the official Sega umbrella the studio would be able to recover and make a better product than…

REVIEW: IRON MAN (XBOX 360/PS3)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 05/02/2013 When the original Iron Man hit theaters in 2008, publisher Sega launched an Iron Man game across every relevant gaming platform at the time. It would mark the first time that an Iron Man game would be released for a home console (not counting handhelds) where the hero would…

REVIEW: IRON MAN (NINTENDO DS)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 03/16/2013 Looking back I can see why people may not have bothered to give the DS version of Iron Man a chance: All of the home console versions reviewed incredibly bad, so the chances that a version on an underpowered handheld being worth anyone’s time was slim. Of all the…

REVIEW: THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN (GAME BOY ADVANCE)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 03/15/2013 2002’s the Invincible Iron Man (IIM for abbreviation purposes here on out) from developer Torus Games and publisher Activision is not the first game to bill Iron Man as a title character, that honor would go to 1995’s Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal from Acclaim (coming…

GAMEPLAY TRAILER FOR DISNEY INFINITY 2.0: MARVEL SUPER HEROES

Disney Interactive has just issued some new footage of the upcoming Marvel Super Heroes expansion set to debut this Fall. In the clip we’re shown more of the Avengers in action as well as the mischievous Loki. Unlike the footage that launched with the debut trailer, we also get to hear some of the characters…

WHY ISN’T THERE A MARVEL VIDEO GAME UNIVERSE?

Back when the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched in 2008, the film to video game rights for all properties were licensed to publisher Sega to farm out development to whom ever they saw fit. While the results ranged from really good (Captain America: Super Soldier PS3/Xbox 360, Thor: God of Thunder Nintendo DS) to okay (The…