The moment of truth is finally here. After spending all of 2016 highlighting what I feel to be the best Marvel console games of all time, it’s finally time to rank them in order from least greatest to absolute greatest. Normally when I do a ranking list, with a few exceptions, I tend to just…
Spider-Man enjoyed a comeback in the video game world thanks to efforts from developers Neversoft, Vicarious Visions and Treyarch, but it was around the time that Spider-Man 3 arrived in both theatres and on consoles as well as handhelds that things started to once again trend downward for the web-slinger. Spider-Man 3 was nowhere near as good as either Spider-Man…
If you don’t know who the character of Wolverine is from the pages of both the X-Men comics as well as his own solo series, you probably might know him from one of the many animated series he played a major role in or the live-action X-Men feature films in which he’s appeared in all…
I’ve stated in the past that one of the sure ways to make a great comic book game is to marry a particular license to a pre-existing game franchise that just simply fits: Batman Begins for example is simply Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell with a Batman skin; Batman: Arkham Asylum and Acclaim’s Shadow Man have a lot in common with Nintendo’s Metroid Franchise and THQ’s The Punisher, the…
Today, franchises like Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed and Battlefield take a lot of heat for having annual releases that water down the brand they represent, but two console generations ago, the term “annual franchise” didn’t carry such a negative connotation. Insomniac’s Ratchet and Clank series released one year after the other and got better as they went along, which was the…
When you look at a character like the Hulk, you can see both a character that is pretty easy to adapt into a fun video game, yet at the same time extremely difficult. In some form or another, people have been making Hulk-esque experiences since the days of early arcade titles like Midway’s Rampage: Game’s granting players…
If you were intimidated by the competition at your local arcade, or just simply didn’t have a local arcade to go to in my case, home console conversions were normally how you played fighting games, and unfortunately those normally came with sacrifices that had to be made due to hardware limitations. As many hours as…
It’s amazing for a game that’s so short and severely mechanically outdated that I can nearly almost find something to write about it. That speaks volumes about how good Neversoft’s Spider-Man, or Spider-Man (2000) as I often refer to it, truly is. In continuing my look at the best Marvel console game ever, I didn’t think I would have…
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