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Top 10 Worst Superhero Videogames

August 22, 2009 in Top List comments 11

Batman: Arkham Asylum is just around the corner and, if reviews are anything to go by, it's shaping up to be a pretty impressive game. But not every superhero game has been a success. Actually, most have been terrible. Here are Toplessrobot's Top 10 Worst Superhero Videogames...

Comic books have long reigned as the most successful storytelling technology available for portraying powered people making awesome happen. Problem is, adapting their adventures to an interactive medium like videogames means that sometimes the vitality of sequential storytelling can get lost behind gamepad buttons. After all, pushing plastic can't easily simulate Spider-Man's money troubles or Superman's cosmic loneliness. To be fair, it took gaming technology awhile to allow anything beyond the most basic super power simulations (punching dudes to the sound of chiptunes). These limitations didn't have to translate into a shoddy and generally lame gaming experience, though. Even now as our gaming consoles approach the relative processing power of starfaring vehicles, too many games still fail to bring a crime fighting experience to the hands and eyes on the other side of the screen. Read on to recount the most atrocious videogame misfires in recent memory in order to avoid super letdowns.
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    phowell23 Aug 22, 09
    How anyone could release such a sad excuse for a game is beyond me. Everyone who worked on superman64 should be takin to an ally and shot. Not to the head or heart of course but shot so that they suffer a slow painful death that is at least half as painful as it was to play that game.
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    Jaw7765 Aug 22, 09
    Superman 64, god...no words can describe how much worth of crap that was. Did anyone really own it?
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      Shinobi_razor Aug 23, 09
      yeah i either rented it once, or i actually bought it and returned it within a couple days, so i cant remember which LOL.
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      Gamesta100 Aug 23, 09
      Sadly yes.One of my friends owned it.
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    Storm* Aug 22, 09
    Eh, the reasons for adding Iron Man/X-O Manowar is rather pathetic, but the rest of the list is on point. X-O Manowar had some decent comics, still have some lying around, and whilst not being famous, this was a step heading him into that direction. Plus, why the hell were they looking for a 'logical' side of the game in the first place? It's just a side-scrolling mash-up game.

    If they added in that Catwoman movie tie-in though, they should have also thrown in Iron Man...good god what an atrocious game.
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    MusiKon Aug 22, 09
    I'm curious. Everyone rags on Superman 64 like there's no tomorrow. And while I'm not defending the game's quality, I'm just wondering: how many of the people who complain have actually played it?
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      Storm* Aug 22, 09
      I've played it, the time limits are ridiculous, and the controls are horrid...but I don't bash it too much, games are a hit or miss, and it was certainly a miss.
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        Miss Razz Aug 23, 09
        *reluctantly raises hand*

        I never got past the first level

        The sad thing is... as a kid, I loved the game. Heck, I loved every game I owned. It wasn't until I was older that I realized which ones weren't so great.
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          Storm* Aug 23, 09
          In the same boat. I never used to hate games (besides fighters, I broke two SNES controllers because of fighting games xD), but I'm pretty sure it's because I wasn't buying them, like a free ride to a form of entertainment from parents and other relatives. Now it's a completely different story...I really should take advantage of a rent service.

          I made it to a part where I actually get to punch a guy if I remember correctly, but that's about it.
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      phowell23 Aug 23, 09
      I went in with very low expectations and i was still astonished at how bad it was
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      Shinobi_razor Aug 23, 09
      i played it back when i was like, 12 or 13 so i wasnt anywhere near a big critic of games, and i still was like WTF is this shit?

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