There’ve been titles dating back to Atari, but if you want to get an achievement for literally saving cats out of trees, pick up the Xbox 360 version of We’re Still Trying To Figure Out Superman. Supes however, has never had a single good title put out with his face on it.
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So where the hell is a BvS tie-in game? And for that matter, where are all the Zack Snyder tie-in games? Let’s explore.įirst, The Bat has had a terrible video game history, until the creators of the very recent Arkham series thought, “What if we made the World’s Greatest Detective into one of those, I don’t know…detectives?” And famously, movies like The Dark Knight have been denied game tie-ins, despite economists fuming about the loss. Mysteriously missing from the BvS paraphernalia is a punch-up video game, which seems like a no brainer.Įven movies like Hardcore Henry have them now. Is it making more money than God? You bet.
Should we even call it a movie? Let’s fight about it on Twitter.
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Pick up my sci-fi novels, The Last Exodus, The Exiled Earthborn and The Sons of Sora, which are now in print and online.Batman v Superman is a movie being screened in theaters right now. Snyder was smart to go this direction, and though the director has his faults, he continues to prove that action sequences like this are one of this biggest strengths.įollow me on Twitter and on Facebook. In an otherwise lackluster movie, I really can’t undersell the joy of seeing Batman fully “unleashed” in an Akrham-like combat sequence like this (we’ll talk about him murdering people with the Batmobile another day). His Kryptonian action sequences there were the first time you feel the true power of that alien race, and those were again, some of the best moments of that film.
But Snyder proved himself with Man of Steel as well. I am impressed with Snyder being the first person to get this right, and when he does, it looks a lot like the first video game to get this right as well. Yes, for years now filmmakers from Tim Burton to Christopher Nolan have done the “sneaking around abducting people in the shadows” Batman decently well, but “open combat Batman”? His fight sequences have always been clumsy and awkward at best, and downright goofy at worse, back in the “Batman can’t turn his head” era of his costume. This is without a doubt the best action-oriented Batman I’ve ever seen on film. No one involved with the film has spoken publicly about the connection yet, but it’s hard not to see one. There is no mistaking how similar this fight sequence feels to the Arkham games however, and it’s hard not to imagine that somewhere along the line, it wasn’t an influence. In this same sequence, he even does the game’s famous through-the-wall takedown (though the game obviously got it from past Batman adventures).
This is almost identical to how fights look, sound and feel in the Arkham games. He uses the tools at his disposal from batarangs to gun-disabling electronic tech to his grappling hook, every move flows in and out of the others, creating a brutal ballet of destruction. He slams his opponents into walls, floor, inanimate objects. In it, Batman doesn’t just punch, kick and block. Superman showed way, way too much in its trailers, and I count this scene among the sins. Unfortunately, that’s also the bad news, as by showing more or less this entire sequence, it sort of ruins the fun when you see the actual movie for yourself. The good news is that you can see most of this fight online to understand what I’m talking about, because they used about 60% of it in one of the later trailers for the movie.