ATemporaryDistraction.com: "While ‘Rise of the Manhunters’ might be the official subtitle for Warner Brothers’ latest big summer movie tie-in game, perhaps a more fitting name would’ve been ‘Green Lantern: God of War’. The game drapes its story on the foundation and mechanics laid out by Sony’s popular hack-and-slash action series like a tight-fitting green costume on a chiseled superhero. It’s near impossible not to see the huge debt that Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters owes to God of War, but that’s really not a bad thing at all. In fact, Green Lantern throws in a wealth of creative, cool and incredibly fun ideas, using Hal Jordan’s box of superpowered tricks to their full potential and managing to be a shockingly enjoyable tie-in game."
Warner Brother's DC Entertainment has been known for putting out (mostly) consistent content for years, and that includes forays into video games. Given that DC focuses a lot more on their solo characters, particularly Batman, Superman and Green Lantern, than Marvel does, its no wonder that DC has had an easier time adapting their IP's to other trans-media proprieties. While Marvel's team movie effort The Avengers has proven wildly successful, DC's Dark Knight trilogy, recent Man of Steel film and the entire animated universe helmed by DC animation veteran Bruce Timm has defined an era of superhero cartoons and direct-to-dvd animated features.
Man, DC Comics hasn't had great luck with games, has it? They had to resort to a few pretty average games to fill out the list.
newbreview.com's David Lee tells the world why he hates movie tie-in games.
I weirdly enjoyed king kong and riddick. Don't know if riddick counts but butcher's bay is great fun. Also would the spider man games count? Some games are often associated with a movie but I'm not sure if they ought to be counted like say wolverine or avatar that are blatant tie ins. Either way I'm not so sure it's as black and white as most people say it is and there's often a little bit of wiggle room. Not ALL tie ins are terrible - if anything they're getting much better.
I hate them because they get slapped together and thrown out on the market. They are heavily time-released games with not much depth
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good thing they included inFamous 2, if they hadnt i would have raged! btw, there was another batman game to grace the PS consoles, the movie tie in to the first Batman movie starring Liam Neeson. The single player was pretty good, had plenty of stealth and combat.
Got to be honest, I wasn't a massive fan of inFamous 2, kind of repeated the original title and never really had a lot of depth to it outside of the main story. Shame because the city scape was fantastic, it just lacked a life.
well for me personally, inFamous 2 was way better than the first. Side missions were more interesting compared to the first installment and characters were more memorable.
4 out of 5... i find that hard to believe
In other reviews it gets 7 out of 10, so maybe it's really a good game. The only negative they have is that it is really short (5-9h).