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Just like the movie....very mediocre

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

GREAT HYPE, NO SHOW

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all this game was supposed to be released back in June, it's the reason I bought the 360. In this game the only time I felt like superman was when I was flying. They created this large city and you never even use it.All the fights take place in local areas. OH and in the fights yeah you never feel like superman,you get your butt handed to you by some robots immune to your powers or some mutants immune to your powers.How hard is it to understand that superman is the baddest of the good.If you must play this game ,which i understand, either rent it, or buy it at Rhino so you can trade it back for a desent game.Anyone else could take this game and have a blockbuster in 8 months ,its all there.errrrrrrrrr

Superman Returns

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you ever wanted to be the man of steel buy this is your game.

Another slapdash loser from the folks at EA

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Repetitive combat in a bland world, based loosely on the same-named movie of not so great acclaim. Makes me want to use terms like Herky-Jerky and Willy-Nilly when referring to the design concepts, despite my not being 80 years old (and really not knowing what those terms mean). Targeting system is the stuff of nightmares, and the camera is often jammed into a corner or up its own cache. All in all, a sloppy and lackluster game with some pointless fluff, which can be just as easily enjoyed from the demo.

Stay Away

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Too much money, it carries the name of the movie, however has absolutely no content from the movie excepts 5 minutes worth of game clips. Non-interactive. You fight the same enemies over and over again. Side missions are impossible when you are constantly dragged into fights with crappy enemies. Combos are not the easiest or most reliable. Find someone who bought it give them 2 bucks and borrow it for the 5 hours worth of gameplay.

Wondering

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: November 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Haven't bought it yet. I was wondering if anyone can tell me if..can you fly around without doing missions?

What i expected from a game developed from a movie.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Come on now, we all know when games come out that are developed from movies are unsuccesful, except a select few. But this one follows in the foot steps of bad superman games. You may find the game to be short and repetative but NOT glitchy, there something positive. This game does have lots of potential, just seems like it was rushed. The graphics are nice and contols are not bad. The villins and game play tend to be very repetative making for an uninterresting superman adventure. The side activities are unclear and hard at times causing major bordom. Lets put it this way, I played the games for a total of 2 tiresom hours, had 45% finished and popped another game in my 360, have not touched it since!! Please rent the game like i did first, because for the amount of money your just buying a new game not a GOOD new game. Your just getting a hole in your wallet. O and the 2 stars i gave the game are for Graphics, smoothness game play, and the little vidio clips through out the game. Plus the one thing that made me mad was the classic superman sound track is not on this game, cant have superman without that sound track.

It's not worth the money or the broken controllers

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS TERRIBLE! This game has nothing to do with The Superman Returns Movie accept for the voice overs. It just an annoying copy of Spiderman 2, which was the original free raoming(sandbox) videogame. The bosses and enemies are tedious and annoying. The Combos are way to complicated and you have a health meter, which is stupid because Superman is invincible. The bosses are way to hard and this game had a small budget. The Graphics are terrible and this game will freeze your 360 badly. I returned it got another disc and that disc was defective too. Instead of Superman, buy Marvel Ultimate Alliance.

Exploitable Bug Found?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Nothing I could add to the reviews that hasn't already been said so on to the bug. I only have the demo so hopefully this will work even on the full version. The bug is when a building is burning you don't have to put the entire fire out. You can just reduce it to say 5%. Then, because a new objective won't occur until the fire is out, this leaves you time to find all the cats or run around and do whatever you want. At first the fire meter will show correctly when the fire has grown a bit but after awhile it won't so you have to keep an eye on it and cut it back down to a small fire. Doing this you should have unlimited time to mess around. If the fire truck gets too good at putting the fire out move it so it doesn't have as good a shot. Also, I think you might be able to throw a robot down onto the sand and leave it there which may indefinitely hold the objective but it might come back if you go too far away (haven't tried this yet). Or maybe just leave one enemy somewhere where they can do little damage so you have more time to mess around.

One thing that bummed me out was I couldn't put all the cars and people on the roof so the city would be clear and no real damage could be done. The cars and people disappear off the roof once you go too far away.

super-d-duper

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

yet another under-appriciated game. lots of fun but totally bashed by reviewers. but still a damn-fine game. based on the movie and decades of superman comics, movies and cartoons. a definate rent or buy must.

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