as for game play it is an open world game which also has a few closed levels. all of supermans powers are scrollable just like xmen legends/ batman style. all the abilities are upgradeable. there is a button you can press which toggles your currant full potential on and off. if your full potential is on then all of your attacks kill and they are very destructive. example if you have your flying on full potential then you fly so fast that buildings break up or you can fly streight throught buildings. if its off then your heat vesion is a small beam that does a little damage and its mainly concussive, if its on then its a huge destructive beam that takes down a city block. if you get punched really hard by a badguy when the button is off then you go flying but you can slow your self down in mid air my flying, if its on then you say put even after the guy hit you and a masive crater is made in the ground, you can also hit alot harder ect for every power. the good thing about unleashing your full potential is that it gets the more phisical missions none quiker. a bad thing is no1. you dont get points to buy unlockables or upgrade or buy powers, also if you go out of control to much, then during your spare time the army will attack you and they are aided by starr labbs and they pack ALOT of kriptonite and are REALLy hard to beat. you can also go to space and other planets, if you go on another planet it is basicaly an infinate loop of senery. also you can heal, if you get badly beaten you will see supes with a few brusies, you do not heal when in a battle only when the fight is finished. there is plently of exciting disasters that you can face after the story like, petty crocks, bank robbers, cats in trees, house fires, tsnamies, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornados, stoping neuclear bmbs, stoping a meateor shower, ships sinking, bvuildings falling ect.
Poll: Can there ever be a good Superman game?
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you can upgrade your powers to God like limits after the game here is the limit. even as your abilites increase threats will also increace eg. you will have to stop a blackhole or a supernova or a planet crashing into earth. if your just having fun and dont care about the game you can try these things out with your full powers just for fun. they can be turned off. you may get an achivement for doing some of this stuff
SPEED/ FLIGHT- practicle telporation, stoping time, phasing, turning invisible, going back in time up to an hour
SUPERLUNGES- able to blow multiple planets out of orbit, able to blow out the sun or blow it back, able to frezze planets or the sun, able able to scream so lound it breaks up a planet, superventriliquisim(only if your weaker and you want to distract a criminal)
HEAT VISION- able to burn a solar system or maybe more
em vision- doesnt increase most just change colour of the screen. x ray vision works
IMVIVINCIBLITY- you can survie everything from a nuke to a blackhole and are even imvunrible to krytonite and other weaknesses
STRENGTH- can move planets and eventualy the sun, can make the sun into a black hole by squesing
buyable aditionale abilities greatest limit
pre crisis
SUPER INTELIGENCE - able to create advanced weaponry and a small gang of indestructable robots
SHAPESHIFTING- generaly just trnsforming in unlockable costumes
MINDCONTROL - can get loads of people to follow your comands
sumonded SUPERMIDJET- can do all you can do at the time, follows your comand
superman blue/red powers
TRACTOR BEAM/ tk- move the sun or a bigger sun
ENERGY BLATS- destroy a solar system or bigger
CREATE A CLONE- as powerfull as you
PHASING
SWORD OF SUPERMAN-
this is the final thing you can earn in the gamegeraly does something difrent and awesome if your facing a disacter eg. turning lava into snow, turning a meator into string ect. offencively you can just will things into nothing
there are also side missions with clark where you ussaly brake into a place with while avoiding gaurds and trying to keep your powers secret from her
SPEED/ FLIGHT- practicle telporation, stoping time, phasing, turning invisible, going back in time up to an hour
SUPERLUNGES- able to blow multiple planets out of orbit, able to blow out the sun or blow it back, able to frezze planets or the sun, able able to scream so lound it breaks up a planet, superventriliquisim(only if your weaker and you want to distract a criminal)
HEAT VISION- able to burn a solar system or maybe more
em vision- doesnt increase most just change colour of the screen. x ray vision works
IMVIVINCIBLITY- you can survie everything from a nuke to a blackhole and are even imvunrible to krytonite and other weaknesses
STRENGTH- can move planets and eventualy the sun, can make the sun into a black hole by squesing
buyable aditionale abilities greatest limit
pre crisis
SUPER INTELIGENCE - able to create advanced weaponry and a small gang of indestructable robots
SHAPESHIFTING- generaly just trnsforming in unlockable costumes
MINDCONTROL - can get loads of people to follow your comands
sumonded SUPERMIDJET- can do all you can do at the time, follows your comand
superman blue/red powers
TRACTOR BEAM/ tk- move the sun or a bigger sun
ENERGY BLATS- destroy a solar system or bigger
CREATE A CLONE- as powerfull as you
PHASING
SWORD OF SUPERMAN-
this is the final thing you can earn in the gamegeraly does something difrent and awesome if your facing a disacter eg. turning lava into snow, turning a meator into string ect. offencively you can just will things into nothing
there are also side missions with clark where you ussaly brake into a place with while avoiding gaurds and trying to keep your powers secret from her
no.
because superman is a stupid concept. Iron Man kicks ass, and all of his games suck too. If they cant even make a decent iron man game, what hope does the man of red tights have?
because superman is a stupid concept. Iron Man kicks ass, and all of his games suck too. If they cant even make a decent iron man game, what hope does the man of red tights have?
There could be a good superman game, unfortunately at the very moment a good superman game is released it will cause all of space to implode killing trillions, knowing this game developers have collectively decided to only make horrible superman games in order to keep all of space safe. There are some prophecies however that state that a good superman game will be release on December 21 2012, causing the destruction of the earth and all of space with it.
In all seriousness though, it is possible but it would have to have one hell of a story and some awesome gameplay mechanics, because honestly superman is a boring character to play a game as, first off if they are true to the comics he's pretty much invincible, not only that if you look at it over time he seems to have the amazing ability to invent powers as he needs them (super weaving and super ventriloquism come to mind)
In all seriousness though, it is possible but it would have to have one hell of a story and some awesome gameplay mechanics, because honestly superman is a boring character to play a game as, first off if they are true to the comics he's pretty much invincible, not only that if you look at it over time he seems to have the amazing ability to invent powers as he needs them (super weaving and super ventriloquism come to mind)
possibly, but it's too hard for that to happen
I mean, seriously, he's the most fucking overpowered character EVER, you may as well make a game and have god as main character
I mean, seriously, he's the most fucking overpowered character EVER, you may as well make a game and have god as main character
It's possible. They were saying that about making a video game based on the westerns. Red dead Redemption made a good western so we can't say that about westerns.
But making Superman would be hard with all his powers and just a weakness for kryptonite. They can't make superman video game a sandbox or I will be near a girl's locker room all day with X-ray vision on.
But making Superman would be hard with all his powers and just a weakness for kryptonite. They can't make superman video game a sandbox or I will be near a girl's locker room all day with X-ray vision on.
One of the most popular suggestions that I'm seeing here is the idea of making Superman have to protect civilians as a substitute for a health bar. Now I don't agree with this, it was one of the ideas in the Superman Returns game and it certainly sounded good, but in practice in amounted to little more than a timer during missions.
Personally I would suggest reining in Superman's invulnerability to a slightly more balanced level, perhaps leaving him vulnerable to heavy artillery and the like while still letting the player pose heroically while bullets bounce harmlessly off of their chest.
For a villain I would definitely have to suggest Brainiac, while not as recognizable or iconic as Lex Luthor, he could provide both are real physical threat via a robot body and act as a more cerebral type who could manipulate Superman and unite Superman's other villains against him.
As a general storyline, maybe taking influence from a comics story I've heard of that involves Brainiac somehow upgrade all of Metropolis into a 30th century city, this would provide a decent excuse to equip enemies with weapons powerful enough to harm Superman. Another idea would be to square Superman off against General Zod, perhaps trying to turn Metropolis into some sort of New Krypton.
Another possibility, set the game on Darkseid's Apokolips, not only would this allow Jack Kirby's New Gods a chance to appear in a videogame, but Apokolips is appropriately hellish that it could act as a sort of Arkham Asylum type setting for Superman, less confined obviously, but still the same basic premise of "You are not safe."
For more of me on the Superman in videogames, see my thread; Superman Returns: A Retrospecive Review ( http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.140883-Superman-Returns-A-retrospective-review )
Personally I would suggest reining in Superman's invulnerability to a slightly more balanced level, perhaps leaving him vulnerable to heavy artillery and the like while still letting the player pose heroically while bullets bounce harmlessly off of their chest.
For a villain I would definitely have to suggest Brainiac, while not as recognizable or iconic as Lex Luthor, he could provide both are real physical threat via a robot body and act as a more cerebral type who could manipulate Superman and unite Superman's other villains against him.
As a general storyline, maybe taking influence from a comics story I've heard of that involves Brainiac somehow upgrade all of Metropolis into a 30th century city, this would provide a decent excuse to equip enemies with weapons powerful enough to harm Superman. Another idea would be to square Superman off against General Zod, perhaps trying to turn Metropolis into some sort of New Krypton.
Another possibility, set the game on Darkseid's Apokolips, not only would this allow Jack Kirby's New Gods a chance to appear in a videogame, but Apokolips is appropriately hellish that it could act as a sort of Arkham Asylum type setting for Superman, less confined obviously, but still the same basic premise of "You are not safe."
For more of me on the Superman in videogames, see my thread; Superman Returns: A Retrospecive Review ( http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.140883-Superman-Returns-A-retrospective-review )
It's totally possible. the devs just need to be able to think of proper scaling and selecting the "right" superman to use.
Let's face it, there are probably easily dozens of versions of the mordern superman they can run with. Just got to make sure they stick with one where the author didn't give him too man stupid powers and they'll have a decent base material to work with.
Even given that though, Superman has always been treated as someone with larger than life powers. And that, really, should be how this is handled.
Instead of making him say, fight criminals with pistols, he's fighting doomsday, he's fighting Captain Marvel, he's fighting Lex Luthor in his kryptonite armor, he's fighting Mongul, or he's fighting Darkseid. Seriously, make the threats at a cosmic level, and it can work. With this, you can still give him a normal health bar, and nobody would bat an eye when he looses a huge chunk from getting hammer fisted by Doomsday.
And when it comes to more convention threats like say, a cruise missile, just set it so that said missile might do only small bit of damage, but is capable of doing what is basically a 1/6 second hit-stun by knocking him off his trail a little. This way, you can even still do more traditional encounters.
As for minor criminals? meh, just let the player plow through them if he wants. I mean, they're playing superman here. They need to have some moments where they can enjoy being invincible.
The physics engine will also be of paramount importance too, since we're talking about destructable environments here.
Powers and how to handle them: The core powers that superman has, flight, super strength, heat vision, super hearing, etc will all be on at all times. Basically, this is superman in his standard mode. Of course, each power will have a "powered up" version of it. This will consume a super meter (ba-dum-chh) that replenishes with time. The difference could be like, normally, a building will stop you in your flight path. But if you use your powered up flight mode, you can actually punch through buildings like a knife cutting through tofu. His normal heat vision can be used to for standard range attack, but his powered up one will actually just cut through obstacles and make them spontaneously combust. (and if we want ot make the game less PG, maybe actually burn people up)
And basically, while you can deal with most of the games obstacle without using it, the cosmic level threats like Darkseid you will be using it a LOT. (in fact, I dare say some of those threats I'd make it so that it's ONLY way you can deal damage to them) Conditions that prevents superman from absorbing yellow sun energy prevents the super meter from recovering. kryptonite will actively DRAIN the super meter.
For actual stages, this is easy. Between the death and return of superman, all the way to infinite crisis, there is more than enough material to throw around for a good supes game.
Let's face it, there are probably easily dozens of versions of the mordern superman they can run with. Just got to make sure they stick with one where the author didn't give him too man stupid powers and they'll have a decent base material to work with.
Even given that though, Superman has always been treated as someone with larger than life powers. And that, really, should be how this is handled.
Instead of making him say, fight criminals with pistols, he's fighting doomsday, he's fighting Captain Marvel, he's fighting Lex Luthor in his kryptonite armor, he's fighting Mongul, or he's fighting Darkseid. Seriously, make the threats at a cosmic level, and it can work. With this, you can still give him a normal health bar, and nobody would bat an eye when he looses a huge chunk from getting hammer fisted by Doomsday.
And when it comes to more convention threats like say, a cruise missile, just set it so that said missile might do only small bit of damage, but is capable of doing what is basically a 1/6 second hit-stun by knocking him off his trail a little. This way, you can even still do more traditional encounters.
As for minor criminals? meh, just let the player plow through them if he wants. I mean, they're playing superman here. They need to have some moments where they can enjoy being invincible.
The physics engine will also be of paramount importance too, since we're talking about destructable environments here.
Powers and how to handle them: The core powers that superman has, flight, super strength, heat vision, super hearing, etc will all be on at all times. Basically, this is superman in his standard mode. Of course, each power will have a "powered up" version of it. This will consume a super meter (ba-dum-chh) that replenishes with time. The difference could be like, normally, a building will stop you in your flight path. But if you use your powered up flight mode, you can actually punch through buildings like a knife cutting through tofu. His normal heat vision can be used to for standard range attack, but his powered up one will actually just cut through obstacles and make them spontaneously combust. (and if we want ot make the game less PG, maybe actually burn people up)
And basically, while you can deal with most of the games obstacle without using it, the cosmic level threats like Darkseid you will be using it a LOT. (in fact, I dare say some of those threats I'd make it so that it's ONLY way you can deal damage to them) Conditions that prevents superman from absorbing yellow sun energy prevents the super meter from recovering. kryptonite will actively DRAIN the super meter.
For actual stages, this is easy. Between the death and return of superman, all the way to infinite crisis, there is more than enough material to throw around for a good supes game.