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Worst N64 Game Ever!
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User
Wow, when I first saw this game I thought it it would be great. I was wrong. This game doesn't even deserve a star. The graphics in the game are bad, and the controls even worse. Half of this game is flying through rings which is a real dissapointment. Flying around the city is allright, probably the best aspect. It would have been much better if you could interact with the enviornment more and if they just got rid of the rings. Then maybe someone could have given it two satrs.
Astonishing!!!
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User
this game really is Astonishing. I give 1 star(oh if there was only lower) to the game itself, and a 5 star(truly deserving the best score) to the people who risked their lives to play this game. This game is...uncomprehindle its SO BAD!!!! the best way i can show you what i think is to go by sections so I dont get confused.
Chapter1 the graphics: well... it looks about as if you gave a 2 year old 3 colors told him to draw a picture of superman and use exactly what he drew. you cant make out the faces of the people...actually you can barely tell they are people!
Chapter2 sound: HELP ME!!!!! THIS SOUND IS MOST REPETITIVE THING IN THE WORLD!!!!!! about 5 notes throughout all the levels... AAAAAAAH!!!
Chapter3 plot: To save your friends from Lex's virtual world. thats it.
Chapter4 gameplay: well....its hard to describe. as sombody once said "Superman 64 is a unique game! What a freespirited hero!!! he does what he wants when he wants! he doesnt care a bit about what you TELL him to do with that stupid controller." and i agree with it 100%. And when he obeys its super super sensitive to the point where you miss all of lex's virtual rings. and by the way if you miss 4 rings or run out of time on lex's ring mazes superman (im asuming) gets depressed and "Lex Wins". if you lose on a ring maze lex wins. if you lose on a mission lexs wins. if you run out of time "Lex wins" and its so repetitive you want to kill yourself. LEX WINS ALL THE FREAKING TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chapter5 comments: all of the titus staff deserve to be shot. Nintendo's worst choise was to publish this game. but nintendo should know better!!!! here's my theory:
One night the stressed out testers are playing at three A.M. are half asleep have 5 oclock shadows and are about to kill themselves. They say in great distress "get me a coffee and ill pubish the game!"
And my theory for titus making a game so entirely bad is:
last day till superman 64 is due, and they havent started. they deside to throw in ring mazed every other level, and not bother fixing the glitches because they assume nobody is gonna run into the wall and go through the lvl. lets get that baby over there to do the animation, and get somthing catchy and ply it throughout the whole game over and over. that will do good.
the game has 3 major quotes:
"If you want to save your friends solve my maze!" Lex
"There's no time to waste!" Superman
"Lex wins" Lex
all you will hear thousands of times... Any review that says its good dont listen to it! im 99% sure that its a prank to ruin a special occasion and waste your money!!! dont buy this game!!!!!
Thanks for Reading! =)
a special thanks to the brave souls who played through this game to get me this info.
Trust me, don't bother with this one
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 7 / 9
Date: February 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User
Sometimes, games are so bad that they're kinda funny and ok to play. This is clearly not one of them. I rented the game from a video store and after playing with it for a bit, I was pretty close to asking Titus Software Corp to give me back my four bucks, and the time of m life that I actually wasted on this truly horrid game.
Why was it so bad? This question could best be answered with another question - Who at Titus thought that it would be cool for Superman to have the mission to fly through hula hoops?? Since when did the man of steel have THAT death defying task?! Many of the "missions" which are supposed to thwart Superman include finding floating keys and flying through through anti-gravity hula hoops. The only usable super power is flight with other powers only acessable upon finding special power-up icons. (Did these guys ever read a superman comic?) The gameplay was slow and confusing, and the graphics might have been impressive if I was playing this on a Game Boy.
In my opinion, you can get a more exciting Superman game experience if you tied a red towel to your shirt and jumped off a building onto a bike without a seat. This is by far the worst video game I've ever played in my entire life.
THE WOST GAME EVER MADE FOR ANY GAME SYSTEM!
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User
Simply put, the worst game ever made, for any game system! Horrible grafix, horrible music, very, very, very stupid storyline. if you play this "game" you will be wasting your life away. The only this worse then playing this, is dying! DONT BUY AT ANY COST! Not worth 0.01
One star is way too generous!
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User
When I first played this game, one word came to mind: wow! Never have I played a game so incredibly, mind-numbingly bad; I couldn't help but keep playing. The story is a joke, the graphics are blurry and look like something the Atari 2600 could've handled, controls are unresponsive, and the levels are the worst that you could imagine. Flying through ring after ring over and over is about the least enjoyable idea for a game ever. If you love to waste money then I wholly recommend this game. If I could have, I would've given this game half or even a third of a star. It's that bad. Scratch that; it's worse.
This games [is bad]!
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User
DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME!
If you won't take my word that it [is bad], try renting it!
They probably took 15 seconds to make it! It has many errors, and is next to impossible to move superman!
Please, take my word for it, or rent it before you get it, because it really sucks.
Worthy of a Class Action Lawsuit Against Titus!
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User
From reading the reviews, many of which are much more fun than the game, the consensus is that this is the worst video game ever. That being the case, I think a class action lawsuit against the manufacturer, Titus is in order. The suit would simply give the game purchaser a refund of the original selling price along with postage to return the game. Personally I'd have the game permanently removed from the market. Short of that, I'd make it illegal to sell the game without the guarantee of a 100 percent refund if the purchaser is dissatisfied. At this point, whether they have the receipt, box, and instructions or not. That way people who want to own this disgrace to the name Superman could still buy it even if they've been warned that it's video excrement. As to rental stores, if someone still wants to rent it after it's been in the news because of the class action lawsuit then they can expect the worst and waste their rental fee. You can't legislate everyone's happiness, but you can try to protect most people as best you can. It's an idea anyway. A lot better than the one Titus had in creating this game the way they did.
Then theres no time to waste!
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User
wow, what a awful game. I mean it's not even kind of fun. ok so you look at the game and it has superman on it so you think,"it can't be that bad," but when you play it your eyes will bleed. so when you start playing it you see lex standing there and your "friends" are in front of this portal and dissapear into his virtual world, and then with no transition you start playing and lex says "if you want to save your friends solve my maze!" (by maze he means rings that you have to fly through) and if you miss like 3 rings it says Lex Wins! and that means you lose and you have to start over. at the bottom of the screen when lex wins it says "press button A to restart" who says button A? ok your in a virtual world right? but superman feels like he should save a virtual person from virtual danger and if you don't superman gets his feelings hurt or something and lex wins. Finaly I get to a level where you get a power, but you can't use them unless you have a power up and even then it runs out! The controls are simply the worst I've ever seen, ever. superman could make a kryptonite statue easier than using theese controls, if you bearley touch the control stick superman flys out of control and for some reason flails his arms out when doing so and when ypu walk you can only walk forwards and backwards so you have to change views all the fricken time! When I paused the game to look at the controls I look at what they put to brake when flying and when I looked at it they spelled it "break!" can you guys even fricking spell! and worse still superman can die! the game is so glichy I ran out of a level! if only the score went lower
This game is a masterpiece
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 10 / 19
Date: September 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User
Oh my goodness. I knew this game would be awesome just by the looks of it. The graphics, sound, controls, and gameplay were so perfectly done. I wonder if I can find a soundtrack for this excellent game. This reminds me of how great ET is for the Atari, Sewer Sharks on the Sega CD, and Kubuki Warriors is for the X-box!
It Should Have Been More ACtion And LEss Puzzles
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Rating: 2,
Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User
I bought this cuz it was the first N64 with a well-known comic hero: Superman. I must say it was not worth getting it for my b-day cuz i the controls were not good and the fun factor was 2.
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