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"Super" at last

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: April 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Moreso than any other superhero, Superman has fallen victim to poor game development. The last truly great game he enjoyed was on the Atari 2600. Since that time, he's endured a horrible NES game, a pair of weak 16-bit games and the unbelievably horrid Superman 64 for the Nintendo 64. Let's not even touch the Game Boy incarnation.

Now that Superman has arrived on the next generation systems, is he faring any better? His X-Box game, Superman: The Man of Steel, sadly leaves a lot to be desired. Thankfully, though, his PS2 and GameCube games finally give Superman his best video game to date.

This is little more than a straightforward linear action game, but even if it's not innovative, it's incredibly fun. For the first time, all of Superman's powers are at your disposal. You can use your heatvision, super breath, superspeed and super strength to your advantage, and can do so in a variety of interesting ways, including the tornado spin and the ground pound. The feeling of satisfaction that comes with sending an enemy across the room with a mere puff of your breath is something to behold.

The game is based on the stellar animated series that debuted in the mid-'90s and features all of the voice talent that made that show great. From Tim Daly to Clancy Brown to Malcolm McDowell, fans of the show will find everyone sounding exactly like their animated counterparts, and beautifully rendered "cel-shaded" video sequences highlight the similarity to the show as the game's storyline develops.

This GameCube incarnation of Shadow of Apokolips is actually superior to the PS2 version. With a more populated Metropolis environment, refined graphics and controls, more special "cheat" features and additional hidden goodies to seek out, gamers will be coming back to this one long after the PS2 version would wear out its welcome. GameCube users will also experience the joys of flying around Metropolis in a "free flight" mode not available in the PS2 version. Infogrames has done well to improve on an already solid gaming experience.

It's not a flawless game, however. The controls take a little bit of getting used to, but once you have a handle on them you should be pulling off complicated manuvers with ease. The enemies are repetitive throughout - an endless series of "Interbots" for Superman to exercise his powers on, broken up by the occasional boss. X-ray vision is one power that is sadly poorly implemented in the gameplay. But with all of the other powers at your disposal, why be picky? There's so much more to love here than there is to complain about. The immersion in Superman's animated universe is a delight that extends from the orchestrated music to the colorful visuals.

Superman fans and fans of straightforward, just-plain-fun action games will do well to pick this one up. People who prefer more different and innovative styles of gameplay or don't care for the Man of Steel are advised to look elsewhere.

Superman: Shadow of Apokolips

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: June 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Official Synopsis:
THIS IS A JOB FOR SUPERMAN!
Horrific waepons from the planet Apokolips have fallen into the hands of super villains. Only Superman has the power to thwart their insidious plot to take over the world.

My Thoughts:
Superman: Shadow of Apokolips is the best incarnation of Superman on a gaming console, or in a game. The horrendous Superman 64 was quite possibly the worst game ever created. But Infogrames and Atari obviously read the reviews for that game, and made a much better one. SOA is a good game but semi-short. I tried to rent this game before I bought it, but I couldn't find it ANYWHERE. I called Blockbuster, Crazy Mike's, and all the Grocery Stores and couldn't find it. I couldn't even find a game store that stocked it! So, I ended up buying it online, and I have no regrets. I reccommend it to super-hero fans, but rent it (if you can find it) before you buy it.

SUPER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, the graphics are great. The game looks just like the cartoon. It feels like you're playing a cartoon. This is the best superman game thats been made so far. If anybody out there is deciding between this and "superman: man of steel", get this one."man of steel" is corny, all you do is fight robots on stupid timed missions. That's a stupid, simple concept in my view, it's the 21st century, who in the hell wants to play a super-man game that has alot of timed missions battling robots all day long. In this game(shadow of apokolips) you have real missions to accomplish like in the first mission you put out a bus that is on fire, bring a criminal to the police, but before you do that you must bring his helicopter down. This is the real superman. If you're a superman fan or just a super-hero fanatic like myself then you'll love it, if not, I would say rent it first.

Super Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Super Speed, Super Strength, Heat Vision, X-Ray Vision, Super Hearing, Super Breath, and of course the ability to fly - it's all here. There are 3 things that stand out about this game in my mind, 1) Wonderful story telling, 2) Superman's flying - who knew it could be so easy to control?, 3) No repeats. When you lose at certain points of a stage, you don't go back all the way to the begining of the stage but to when you were last sucessful. This is a great game!

He truly is the man of steel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Faster than a speeding bullet, More powerful than a locamotive, Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, Blasted from the doomed planet Krypton! His incredible strengh has made him....SUPERMAN! Superman shadow of apokolipsis my favorite game. It has great gameplay and graphics are based of the animated series. Any fan of the cartoon would love to own this game. Superman has the same powers as he is known to have, including flying,laser eyes, x-ray vision, incredible speed and super hearing. His super hearing is actually how he locates all his enemies in the game.

The Truth about Superman Shadow of Apokolips...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Now this is a game I had high hopes for. It's simple, I love comic book games, next to survival horror they are a favorite of mine. So when Superman Shadow of Apokolips was coming to us all on home console, I was pretty crazed.

Weird he'd say that after leaving such a score you may ponder? Well its simple really, Superman had alot of great things going for it. I enjoyed the cartoon style graphics, I felt the overall appearence of Superman S of A made me feel as if I was Mr. Kent in the thick of things.

But I felt that they neglected some things that could have improved the games overall ability. One thing I will state is that I wished upon a star that they would have made the game multiplayer... now that would have been fun. Thus it didn't happen and we ended up with this game, which I don't mean to sound drab about.

Look it's like this... if you are a Superman fan... rent it first if you like it great you can get it cheap. If your looking for blockbuster comic-to-movie style mayhem look elsewhere. Thats the bottom line, by the way this review is for the PSX2 version of this game. Thats the one I own and played and beat so there Ha Ha. :)

Good, but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While this Atari title is acceptable, it still has much to be desired. For example, the graphics are terrible. I know that they could have been better. Gameplay is fun, but can get old after a while. The game has many of the villans, including Mettalo, Livewire, and Parasite. For any Superman, fan this game is a must buy.

What's so super?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Basically, I think this game is really boring. Yeah it has good graphics, WOOPIDEEDOO! That still doesn't make up for the flaws. The gameplay is ok, but kind of confusing to learn at first. Once you learn the controls you can beat up goofy looking robots, OH BOY! If you like that, guess what, you get to do it the whole first half of the game! Then, you can fight more goofy-looking robots, because that's pretty much all you do. So if you like beating up lots and lots of robots, then this game is right for you, otherwise, I suggest you get as far away from this game as possible.

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