The world needs a good Superman video game ASAP – Reader’s Feature
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Enthused by the new movie trailer, a reader hopes for a Superman video game that can use the character and his villains to their full potential. As a big fan of DC Comics I was overjoyed to see the new Superman teaser trailer this week. Not only was it really good but it seems to have been very popular, with lots of views that suggest the film will be a big hit. This pleases me, as people have been saying for years that an optimistic, happy Superman would never be successful anymore, but hopefully this new film will be proof that is not true.
With the terrible state of the world at the moment, we need a film that celebrates hope and goodness and while the film might not end up doing everything I want it to, it sure seems a major improvement on the awful Zack Snyder films. Naturally though, I’m not here to talk about Superman films, but games. This is another thing that people like to tell you can never work, because Superman is too powerful, but most video game characters are invulnerable and grossly overpowered compared to their opponents. There’s no reason a game couldn’t work, and I really hope Warner Bros. is going to give it another go.
Superman has stared in dozens of games over the years, going all the way back to the Atari 2600 in the ’70s. None of them have been very good, in fact the one on the N64 is famously one of the worst video games ever made. But just because nobody has made it work so far doesn’t mean the idea’s no good.
The most recent big budget attempt (if you don’t count the fun Lego Batman games) was a Superman Returns game from EA in 2006. This one was frustrating because it did a lot of things right, with a big open world to fly around and the very clever idea that while you don’t take damage the city does, and if it takes too much you lose.
