REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN: EDGE OF TIME (NINTENDO DS)

Prior to the release of Spider-Man: Edge of Time on the Nintendo DS, development duties for Spider-Man games on the DS had fallen on Griptonite Games who created some pretty great “metroidvania” style games featuring the web-slinger with Web of Shadows and Shattered Dimensions. That particular studio was purchased by Glu Mobile in 2011 to work…

REVIEW: X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (NINTENDO DS)

NOTE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM  Prior to their acquisition by Glu Mobile, developer Griptonite Games seemed to be the go to company for hand held iterations of super hero games. The company worked on games starring Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Green Lantern and two different versions of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. While some of their…

REVIEW: SUPERMAN RETURNS (NINTENDO DS)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM  07/05/2013 After the Superman Sudoku puzzle game they put out on the Game Boy Advance, I didn’t know what to expect from EA’s Superman Returns game on the Nintendo DS. This handheld version is an ambitious action-board game hybrid that has a lot of interesting ideas that didn’t quite the…

REVIEW: IRON MAN 2 (NINTENDO DS)

NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM  05/13/2013 Iron Man 2 comes to us courtesy of studio Griptonite games, a developer I’ve taking a liking to for crafting some great superhero themed games like Spider-Man: Web of Shadows and Shattered dimensions (also for the NDS) and Marvel Super Hero Squad: the Infinity Gauntlet. To simply sum up…

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: X-MEN: THE OFFICIAL GAME (NINTENDO DS)

One of things in my opinion that made the original Nintendo DS the gigantic success it turned out to be was the unique touch screen interface. Before the advent of the mobile smart phone gaming renaissance, it truly was a unique handheld gaming device for it’s time with its touch screen and button combination. When…