VENOM: VIDEO GAMES FAVORITE BAD GUY

One of the great things about picking up a video game based on a comic book is that you get to inhabit the role of your favorite super hero. Whether it’s swinging around the streets of New York as Spider-Man, soaring through the air as the Man of Steel or frightening foes from the shadows…

SPACE: MARVEL’S NEW FRONTIER

For decade’s now there have been video games based on Marvel properties: Spider-Man, the X-Men, The Punisher, even Deadpool and the Silver Surfer. A high percentage of the games released based on a Marvel property take place right here on the planet earth, and rightfully so. One of the qualities that I believe makes Marvel’s…

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…