Xbox

Superman Returns

It's hard to shake the feeling that EA viewed the movie's DVD release as the last chance to capitalize on the movie license and was going to ship this game finished or unfinished, good or bad. It looks as though they finally settled on unfinished and bad. Superman Returns doesn't have much to do with the movie of the same name; the plot is a bunch of nonsense; and the game just doesn't capture the essence of what has made Superman such an enduring icon. If you're an Xbox 360 owner who has played the Superman Returns demo, you've already played the best part of this game. It's fun to fly above the city and then zoom down at the speed of sound to zigzag among the buildings, and it's even fun to pound on robots for a short time. But the fun quickly ends courtesy of the bland graphics, lousy controls, boring combat, and repetitive objectives.

Superman Returns: The Videogame is an embarrassment to video games, not to mention the Superman franchise, and is a new low for the quality of movie tie-ins. It might have a mammoth city to fly around, the movie’s cast putting in half-arsed performances and straightforward controls, but there can be no excusing the game for being so badly designed, ham-fistedly developed and devoid of entertainment value. The game had so much potential that you can’t help feeling a better development studio could have finally done the man of steel justice. Is it so hard to make a Superman game that it has to be this bad?

Mal fichu et d'une pauvreté ludique et technique pour tout dire ridicule, ce Superman Returns troque la promesse du spectacle pour un gâchis considérable. Il y a un signe malheureux qui ne trompe pas quand on prend en main un jeu. Cette situation où vous ne cherchez plus à creuser un peu la substance du gameplay, où vous vous contentez de refaire les mêmes gestes encore et encore pour aller au plus direct, pour en finir. Le titre d'EA produit ce résultat à l'infini.