When it comes to comic book video games, certain things should go together like cereal and milk: Swinging around as Spider-Man, mowing down thugs with automatic weapon in the shoes of the Punisher, and stalking criminals in the shadows of Gotham City in the role of Batman. One concept that seems like a slam dunk…
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…
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…
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…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/17/2013 If, like me, you wanted to like Constantine more than you wanted to that one time you watched it out of curiosity, you probably didn’t realize or simply forgot that there was a game released in tandem with the film. When looking at games to cover this Halloween season, I…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/16/2013 Urban Chaos: Riot Response was not the first title for this project: It started off under the title Roll Call before moving on to Zero Tolerance and finally Urban Chaos: Riot Response. While I have no way of confirming this, a reason for the final title may have been…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 10/15/2013 Leading up to the October 25th release of Batman: Arkham Origins, as opposed to reviewing or featuring Asylum and City, I thought it would be more original to look at the previous comic book themed games created by WB Games Creative Director, Eric Holmes and another thematic origin game.…
NOTE: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON COMICBOOKMOVIE.COM 06/23/2013 Superman: Shadow of Apokolips comes to us courtesy of publisher Atari and internal developer Infogrames Sheffield house, who were known as Gremlin Interactive prior to them coming under the Atari umbrella. The story follows the events of Countdown to Apokolips on the Game Boy Advance with Darkseid working to…
With a new Ghost Rider film dropping in theaters next week, I thought it would be rather topical to take a look at the Spirit of Vengeance’s first and only major console release: Ghost Rider for the PS2. Ghost Rider was released to coincide with the 2007 film released from Sony and serves as a…
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