Superman Returns
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Superman Returns
Customer Review: Just like the movie....very mediocre
Summary: 2 Stars
I believe it was in 97 or 98 when I attended E3 in Atlanta. One of the booths I was excited about was Superman 64. So when I attended the event I found the Titus booth and immediately went to play Superman. My first task...flying through rings...you have got to be kidding me.....RINGS!!! What the ???? Okey, I thought after this ridiculous start that it would get better...oh no it got worse...much worse. Several times I found myself stuck in the wall. Alarmed I asked one of the people who represented the company who was making this horrible game that I got jammed in walls an awful lot. The lady scowled at me and acted like it was no big deal. She might as well have had on a T-shirt that said "I don't care".
You know when you get gum on your shoe and you lift up your foot and you give it a dirty look. Yep, that's how the lady looked at me. Like, how dare I breathe the same air as her. After playing the game for a few minutes more I left really disappointed and when the game did come out...well you know the drill. The reviews were downright abysmal. I believe it's listed as one of the worst games ever made next to ET for the Atari.
Anyway after that experience I still kept up hope that maybe someday we will get a superman game that truly gives the character its due. When I heard that they were making a superman game for the xbox 360 I could hardly wait. The screenshots were incredible and the premise seemed promising. Will this be it, the superman we all have been waiting for.....?
Uh...No.
Like the movie itself it misfired badly. I do agree that the first hour is very encouraging and has moments of video game bliss but after fighting my 30th robot and realizing the game is about as deep as Paris Hiltons personality, I was left cold and unfortunately I can't recommend this game for purchase. As a rental......definitely!!! That's it, that's about as far as you need to go. Play it for awhile call it good and than forget about it. Its not even close to super....I cant even say semi-super, I can only say average and it's only a few ticks from being below that.
The sad part is that this game had potential, the ideas were there but unfortanately after the first hour of the game it becomes a monotonious, uninspired mess. It says on the back of the game box that the game was taken from over 60 years of comic book stories and the movie itself. Uh...okey since when did Superman fight dragons and robots endlessly day after day after day. If he did, would you want to read those comics? I would rather read home and gardens. Alot of wasted oppertunity...this game if given more time to be cared for like Halo or GTA, than this game could have been EPIC...easily. Instead, its just been made to accomdate the crappy movie.
I guess we must all still be patient for a really good superman game. However it's nice that I didn't have to fly through rings this time or do those stupid clark kent stealth levels in the PS2 superman. And SR is the best superman game out now but really is that saying much? Uh no.
Customer Review: Great Game. Great Game Disc Quality.
Summary: 5 Stars
There's allot of button mashing. Other than that, this game is great like Grand Theft Auto for children under 6 years old. Not recommended for adults who already played Grand Theft Auto. This game is strictly for children whose parents will not allow children to watch realistic violent games like GTA series.Customer Review: Something wicked this way comes...this game is retardulous!
Summary: 1 Stars
Truly a masterpiece of schlock (sp). I was probably more excited than most when I saw the expo for Superman Returns in er.. I think it was Electronic Gaming. Anyways the screenshots were amazing the sheer immensity of Metallo was staggering and very impressive. To make what could be a long review short I must do two things with this: 1) tell all potential buyers not to, I will expound in a moment, and 2) create a new word to describe this game.
To any potential buyers of this game, please note that a rental is far more worth it. The true and ONLY fun this game offers is the first hour or so during the prologue and immediately after during your first 10 minutes of exploration around metropolis. There is NO depth to the game. The combat system stinks to high heaven, the voice acting and music are terrible, the boss encounters mightily disappointing, and the variety of encounters/missions are .... well, they're not even there.
Rent it, if you must, play it until your rational mind and dignity can't stand the beating any longer and send it to the mothers of these shameless video game producers who, once again, have duped some poor sap out of his (my) money.
Lastly, to describe my utter loathing of this game. Superman Returns is ridiculous and shameful in its complete lack of loyalty to all the Superman fans out there. To think that this would do the Man of Steel justice. It is also very retarded, yep, that's right retarded. Therefore combining the ridiculousness and retardedness of this game is best summerized in the word RETARDULOUS
Customer Review: The more I played it, the less I liked it ....
Summary: 2 Stars
Where to begin? Let me start by saying that ever since we were treated to ET on Atari, with rare exception, movie-based games have generally been pretty awful. The reason for that is simple, a developer knows that a product's name will entitle it to a certain number of sales just because of the name. There's no "extra-incentive" for you to inflate the budget of a product if you don't expect to recoup that dollar amount in sales. 'Superman Returns', I really thought, wasn't going to fall into that developer trend.
My expectations were raised, oddly enough, when the game was delayed and the demo was released. 'Superman' was originally supposed to come out in May of '06 to coincide with the release of the feature film. When it was delayed, I mistakenly thought that was the staff at EA saying to itself, "OK, there's more interest here then we thought, lets sink a little more time and effort into this one." The game was subsequently pushed to November to match up with the film's DVD release. Then the demo for the game hit xBox live and I was legitimately impressed. Metropolis was huge, the environment was interactive, the flight mechanics were solid; it reminded me of 'Ultimate Spider-Man', just with Superman. The graphics and the combat system were a little below-average, but I wrote that off as a problem they're working on. It was just a demo after all, I expected it to be a little rough around the edges.
While nothing that I enjoyed about the game was changed, I'm disappointed to say that none of these issues I had were fixed for the game's final release either. Not to mention, there's very little to the game outside of the demo I played. Instead of using the extra time EA took to get 'Superman' released to add content, EA seemed to just seem to multiply what was there already. Just for example, there isn't enough diversity in the enemies Superman will confront. You fight Metallo and his minions fairly early in the game. You'll be fighting those same annoying robots the whole game. There are only about five or six actual boss fights in the game, none of whom I found particularly difficult. One of which is the same character twice! I'd have loved to have seen more of Supe's rogues gallery.
There aren't many side missions you have to distract yourself with either. It would have been awesome to involve more of Superman's supporting cast to pass along side objectives. As I said before, there's not more diversity, it's as if they just doubled what was already there.
As far as the previous 'Superman' games go, this is definitely king of the hill. Some of those games were flat-out awful, this is at least playable. It's just that I wish they took the nugget of a good thing they had going and fleshed it out a lot more. For now, it's nothing more then a "... could of been." Rent it if you want to check it out.
Customer Review: Had High Expectations
Summary: 3 Stars
It isn't awful and the graphics are great. I had higher expectations for this game. The Spiderman games are great and that's more what I was expecting with this. Perhaps if I started with no expectations I wouldn't have felt slightly disappointed. But it's still a good game.