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 Super Cool December 18, 2006
J. Townsend
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Don't believe the Superman/EA haters, this is a really cool game. The flight is incredible and the chaos of the fights is great and unique. The other reviews say the game is repetitive, but it is as varied as you want it to be. You can make your own combos and play with some crazy physics. I think it is short but there seems to be a lot of replay value since the game is different each time you play it.
 The more I played it, the less I liked it .... March 28, 2007
Ron Sullivan (Philadelphia, PA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
Superman Returns Rocks! November 23, 2006
L. Barker (Abilene, TX USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is Superman Returns: The Videogame, not Superman Returns: the Movie. With that said it's only fair to review this game from a videogame's perspective and not compare it to the movie. Yes, it has some elements from the film, but those elements were obviously too few to make a great game. And so, the developers wisely added additional elements that are derived from Superman lore, to include 70+ years of Superman history!
I liked the fact that even though Superman is invincible, Metropolis is not. The city takes damage as chaos reigns. This feature has to be one of the greatest decisions ever made for a videogame. After all, protecting Metropolis and its citizens from all danger is Superman's prime objective. And why ask why there are dragons in the city? Can you say Mister Mxyzptlk? Anything, and everything thing happens with that guy around.
This game also gives you the ability to save your progress at anytime. So there is no excuse and reason to start over from the very beginning of a chapter.
Overall the final product is astonishing; this is the BEST superman game ever made. Ever wanted to be the man of steel? This is your chance!
Avoid like Kryptonite November 23, 2006
S. Gibson (New Freedom, PA USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Avoid the Superman Returns game like the plague. I had high hopes after playing the demo on the 360, but well... if you've played the demo you've pretty much played the game. It's pretty much the same thing ad nauseum. IT would have been better if the environment was a little more destructable, especially during the Bizarro missions where one must cause as much mayhem as possible (which means blowing up cars and setting tress on fire with your heat breath). Graphically, the city looks pretty flying above it, some of the buildings look pretty good, but then some of the textures looks like they are from a system 2 generations ago or more... honestly, you've seen better on the PS1... but these are few and far between. My BIGGEST gripe with the game is the targetting, I'm fighting Metallo and I want to target his robots that fly around him first, I target Metallo. I want to chuck a gas tanker at Metallo, I target his robots... needless to say, that gets rather old rather quickly. Some of the big battles, I'm not sure how the mechanics of them work, for example, early in the game there's a gladiator match on Warworld and because Superman can't die in this game you have to win the crowd over, but the odds are against you, as in you get hit and your opponent gets a significant boost, whereas you can pound away on him all day and only get a portion of the same boost, meanwhile, he hits you with his completely undodgable attack. Needless to say, this was a rather frustrating exercise, avoid at all costs.
Save your cash. November 24, 2006
Chris (Wisconsin)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Flying is the ONLY pull of this game. Besides the awesome flight and superspeeding, the rest of the game is a repetitive mash of robots and dragons...save your money, and buy Spider-Man 2 for Xbox...or Gears of War for 360, those deserve your cash.
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