Superman: The Man of Steel - Just Bad Games

I saw a theory at one point saying that you cannot make a good Superman videogame because you either make playing as Superman super limiting and underwhelming or make it a boring, mindless power trip.

This is the only Superman game I've played. It was enough

In terms of which DC Superhero has better games, that would be Batman as Superman has lots of terrible video games. And it looks like it’s not going to stop if Superman keeps being made a laughing stock in video games.

Powermale: A guy of metal

Anyone else think the fact jedi and sith act like the saber side acts like it has weight an totally isnt light from a deadly flashlight.....you should be able to tornado light sabers and who tf gonna wanna get close. Shot melts ur ass thru or in holes

The fact this game is arguably worse than Superman 64 is even more impressive when you take into account Superman 64 was so bad because the IP holders weirdly decided Superman was too pure to punch people. So like ... most of the game got gutted and taht's why all that was left was ring flying missions. Because it was one of the only things the devs made for the game that didn't conflict with this bizzar mandate that was dropped on them mid development.

So you have a game that got murdered mid development, where superman wasn't allowed to punch people, and then you have this. A game with NONE of those restrictions ... and it's still worse.

Well At Least we get to free roam n fly as Superman in The Game But Superman Shadow of Apokolyps is def a much better game

Not made in Unity Engine? LOL, the shittest game engine ever made, includes asset flipping.

Pretty much as good as The Marvels from the MCU in 2023

Is Lois Lane voiced by her regular DCAU voice actress, Dana Delany? Also, Clark Kent looks like Lon Chaney Sr's version of the Phantom of the Opera, albeit with a decent toupee!

“It’s a bird
It’s a plane
I think it’s an concussion”

I like how they basically turned Supes into Goku from DBZA for this review, lol.

This game makes me fart from my peepee

It's a bird! It's a plane! NO, IT'S A SH*TTY GAME!

- The Angry Video Game Nerd

Isn't Brainiac supposed to talk in a monotonous, emotionless manner? What with him being a robot and all.

That's how he talked in the animated series.

Remember, when comic book games used to reflect the comics from that specific point in time when the game was made? Weird/better(?) times lol

Has there ever actually been a GOOD Superman game?

2002? Futuristic Metropolis? Giant Robots? Think someone may have had a peak at Insomniac Games' notes for R&C.

Me really likey dis video so much

6/10 not enough rings

This game doesn't look horrible.
It looks playable(minus the controls).
The arcade game was really cool but Superman still had weaknesses.

I want a superman game where it’s just STUPID easy. Oh there’s a group of thugs? Not any more they were in prison YESTERDAY. I’m fighting a supervillai— nope… they are in prison last week.

Sony and ActiVision has plowed millions into the first PS1 Spider-Man and I loved that game and loved Spider-Man ever since. It was so simple and straightforward compared to most Superman games. The 64 version was dreadful and the MoS is dreadful. DC just need to keep it simple.

I think it’s a concussion😂😂😂

Bizarro's dialogue is almost always like that. It's not just him saying the opposite of what he means, a lot of times it's just broken English. He runs on Bizarro logic, it's not supposed to make sense.

You know, although it was executed poorly here making objective health the focus of the game isn't a bad idea for a Superman game. The problem with making a Superman game is nothing hurts him, so it feels weird to be watching a health bar. I think a good game could embrace this and just not have any health for Superman, making everything about the spinning plates of everything he's trying to protect vs the danger of his powers. Failure would be about people getting hurt or causing too much collateral damage. To Superman, the world is a stack of eggshells he's trying not to break or knock over and experiencing that would actually be pretty cool. Although of course, this require a game that has nice tight controls and a good physics engine so you're mad at yourself and not the game for handling like melted cheese.

Still not as bad as Superman 64

I almost bought Superman 64. Almost.

the only interest this game merits is the loading screens by the awesome ed mcguinness most known for superman/batman public enemies

Atari 2600 is still the best Superman game 46 years later.😂 I lied. NES chibi Superman rules.

It's actually quite insane that Superman has had so many bad video games.

Superman is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, can leap over tall buildings, is infinitely strong, shoots lasers out of his eyes, can fly so fast he can rewind time and is an alien from another planet and being able to play as him should be one of the funnest things you could do in a video game but yet there has been several games you would have more fun washing Superman's sweaty underwear by hand than playing any of those games.

A while back, I figured out this game exists and I made the mistake of wasting money on it to find out how bad it was for myself. I didn't even finish the first mission.

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Give DC time. Old Spiderman games were horrible until the PS4 version, and old Batman games were horrible until Arkham Asylum. The same could happen to Supes!

I wonder what Supermans birth name is supposed to be. It couldn’t be Clark, he’s an alien. It use have to be something nearly unheard of on Earth.