Poor, poor Fantastic Four. Stan Lee's crime-fighting quartet has never starred in even one good video game. Their PlayStation game, from Acclaim, is a side-scrolling abomination. Activision's 2004 movie inspired release fared better, but didn't achieve comic book-adapted glory. This year brings the latest failure, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, a game that suffers from numerous issues.
As long as there have been videogames there have been videogames about superheroes. It seems like a natural fit -you have a medium that allows players to perform any action that the developers can imagine, and a genre about larger than life heroes and villains with powers far beyond those of normal men and women.
So why is it that so few superhero games are any good; let alone make the player feel as though they're in any way superhuman?
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Well, who knows. It'd probably be about gangs, drugs and stealing cars...
I'd like to see what they'd do with a super hero game, actually. Say all you want about rockstar but they make good games.
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It depends, but I think the Superman games usually fail because they make him invincible. I don't care if you can still fail if you fail to save citizens or something, that's not what I consider a tense and exciting scenario.
it seems like only batman and spiderman have been successful in video game market.
but ya most of them fail because they are movie based games, and are quickly made just for easy $$$$.
I would love to see rocksteady make a superman game.
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Kotaku's Brian Crecente writes:
"Our first-ever Game of the Year awards was a pretty straight forward deal. I asked all of the writers to submit a list of three games for each category and the three that showed up most in each category made it as a finalist. Once we had the list of finalists I asked each writer to go through and order the finalists and then tallied the vote. The one with the most points was named Game of the Year, the runner-up was named Not Quite Game of the Year. The game with the most votes for Worst Game of the Year received that dubious honor."
Super Mario Galaxy won Kotaku's Overall Game of the Year award. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune came as second, it won the Not Quite Game of the Year award. (Kotaku posted the overall results as a separate post, see the link at the Alternative Sources below for more details.)
I didn't know that Odin Sphere was that great. I mean, Persona 3 was awesome, I'll have to try this one out I guess.
What idiots at Kotaku. Stop with the LAIR bashing already. Maybe a lot of people didn't like the controls but it definitely can't be considered the worst PS3 game of the year. The controls just take a brain to get used to. Maybe they aren't smart enough to play it. I see a lot of terrible PS3 games that should get that award. A bunch of lazy 360 ports.
I'll have to agree with you. Lair is not the worst. I would had picked Harry Potter...that game was HORRIBLE. I picked it up for $20 and I must say that was the worst 20 bucks spent ever.
That's pretty pleasing news. I'm sure a lot of people will be mad regarding SMG's victory, but I'm just happy to see that Uncharted is beginning to get the recognition it deserves.
Uncharted is good but I'd give Ratchet & Clank Future Game of the Year over it. They need to flip those two.
Nice find and winners. I'd add Mass Effect as 360's runner up as well as a nod for COD4 but overall, solid. I hope BioShock wins overall GOTY.
Every Extend Extra Extreme? Really?
I guess I will have to take another look at that game. I played it for about 5 minutes and it made me want to punch myself in the face.
Fantastic Four is becoming the new Superman in the world videogames. At least there is no Fantastic Four N64.
yes thats my man, im so in love with that movie i downloaded and watch it 3 times.
They always make the game with the movie release in theaters, and the game turns out bad. Why can't game developers make the movie game after the movie in theaters? Rare finish making Goldeneye game one year after the movie and it turn out to be a instant classic. Chronicles of Riddick game was in the same position, but it lack multiplayer that could of been better than Halo 2. At least it was better than its movie counter part.