Leave it to EA 'fucking' Sports to make a business out of legally screwing over the public market. They have certainly found the niche, as in smoking mirror/hyped bullshit - collect the cash and run.
We all knew superSHIT returns would be well...SHIT....no suprise here...it amazes me EA continues to shun pissed off users and release one coaster after another I mean lets look at a quick break down of Tiburon's latest steamer.
- 2 years in the making, claim new engine...best of the best..typical vaporware horseshit.
- Miss movie deadline...completely miss opertuity to cash in on buzz, of course Warner Bros can't really do shit as noone else has a game to coincide with blockbluster release
EA finally gets around to dropping the bomb (EA supman returns) but has stalled so long that they have to release it to coincide with DVD release...LOL...gee so now EA products are so bad they go straight to DVD...just like some of the stellar hollywood duds nobody gave a shit to see.
So next time your at blockbuster and you walk by Behind Enemy Lines 2, Roadhouse 2, or Dusk til Done 3 and think to yourself...gee I never heard they made another one of those...as you get suckered into throwing away your money on one the listed above hollywood snooze fests...don't forget to stop by the video game section and check to see if tiburon has one of its latest coasters to accompany it.
A new low for even EA sports..don't believe me...lets see what amazon.com has to say
Major disappointment, November 29, 2006
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Ashley (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
Superman Returns... Did 'you' notice flying dragons, destructive robots, flying saucers, and monsters in the movie?? No! This game has you continuously, and I mean that very much, fight against these creatures. You have to destroy them with heat vision, freeze breath, or basic attacks over and over again. Then, once in a while you get to fight Metallo, Multiple guy, Bizarro. Again, you use heat vision or basic punches, kicks, grapple moves to defeat them. Does this sound like the movie? No. The only connection to the movie that this game has are the cutscenes. Once in a while there will be Lois typing on the computer, someone tossing a newspaper with the headline "Superman defeats ____". I was hoping for a connection to the movie like Spider-man 2 had. But... nothing. Freedom? Never. Yes you get to fly around Metropolis, which looks nice, but then every minute you are stopped by an emergency. Time to extinguish buildings, defeat monsters or villains, and just make sure Metropolis's health bar doesn't reach zero. That's IT. The end of the game has something new. Stop a storm. Yay? Well, after the third time you do this, it is no longer ANY fun. No visits to the Fortress of Solitude. No major conversations between Superman/Lois, Superman/Lex, or Clark/Lois. You don't get to save Lois. The cutscene does that for you! So, does this seem like the game they promised? The fighting is ridiculously repetitive. It has Spider-man 2's XP. You fight the baddies and gain XP. Then you move on. You do NOT get to fight Lex Luthor. The cutscene does that! Anyway, the graphics are good but the gameplay is horrible. Barely any connection to the movie. No freedom. No romantic plot with Lois. There isn't even James Marsden's character! There's no Superman JR! If you want freedom, a beautiful city, a connection to a movie, flying high above buildings, saving people - then buy Spider-man 2. At least there you fight the villains in the movie, save MJ, and race the Black Cat. Please - Rent before you buy.
Wondering if I bought the Bizaro version, November 27, 2006
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Paul E. King (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews I'm still playing the game, I'm only about 3 hours into the thing and somewhere around 80% completed according to the game, and I'm not having fun any more, and this really bothers me. I just shelled out $60 something and I can't say I've ever had a feeling during this that I was doing anything meaningful other than saving a block of Metropolis idiots (they run into you while you're punching your opponents and are sent flying). I'm trying to do one of the side missions where I fly around and collect things, but Metropolis gets attacked every 10 seconds by a band of flying ice dragons and their companions the fire dragons. Or I'll get wrapped up in a fight with the guy who multiplies over and over again yet only manages to have 3 or 4 lines and they're so freaking corny it hurts. I really wanted to like this game... honestly, I got sucked in because of the demo being so short... I thought "there has to be more to this game, and it's probably frickin' awesome"... I'm really not finding the frickin' awesome.
GREAT HYPE, NO SHOW, November 26, 2006
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D.A.N. (St.Augustine, FL USA) - See all my reviewsFirst of all this game was supposed to be released back in June, it's the reason I bought the 360. In this game the only time I felt like superman was when I was flying. They created this large city and you never even use it.All the fights take place in local areas. OH and in the fights yeah you never feel like superman,you get your butt handed to you by some robots immune to your powers or some mutants immune to your powers.How hard is it to understand that superman is the baddest of the good.If you must play this game ,which i understand, either rent it, or buy it at Rhino so you can trade it back for a desent game.Anyone else could take this game and have a blockbuster in 8 months ,its all there.errrrrrrrrr
So long of a wait and so soon only to be dissappointed, November 24, 2006
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louis - See all my reviewsI recall that before this game came out there were talks of its development and screenshots popping up like mad on game sites which really stirred up alot excitement and anticipation. The question was out there. Could this finally be THE superman game we've all been waiting for that will do the character justice? I mean afterall wouldn't it make sense to have the ability to do the things superman can do now with the substantially powerful nex generation consoles we have the choice of buying. Seems like it would make sense right? WRONG! We don't have any epic feeling of Superman in this game the way we should have for a character of his proportions. There is no flying up beyond the atmosphere and looking down on earth like one would expect to see from the really cool scene in the movie. His flying speed is somewhat tame even when he is crusing at the fastest speed you can fly and it almost altogether lacks grace and fluidity. Also Superman is very weak in this game as well and too many times I find myself getting knocked around by a bunch of robots like a 5th grade chess team MVP does by school bullies.
Another slapdash loser from the folks at EA, November 23, 2006
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Grimace O'toole (USA) - See all my reviewsRepetitive combat in a bland world, based loosely on the same-named movie of not so great acclaim. Makes me want to use terms like Herky-Jerky and Willy-Nilly when referring to the design concepts, despite my not being 80 years old (and really not knowing what those terms mean). Targeting system is the stuff of nightmares, and the camera is often jammed into a corner or up its own cache. All in all, a sloppy and lackluster game with some pointless fluff, which can be just as easily enjoyed from the demo.
Avoid like Kryptonite, November 23, 2006
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S. Gibson (New Freedom, PA USA) - See all my reviews Avoid the Superman Returns game like the plague. I had high hopes after playing the demo on the 360, but well... if you've played the demo you've pretty much played the game. It's pretty much the same thing ad nauseum. IT would have been better if the environment was a little more destructable, especially during the Bizarro missions where one must cause as much mayhem as possible (which means blowing up cars and setting tress on fire with your heat breath). Graphically, the city looks pretty flying above it, some of the buildings look pretty good, but then some of the textures looks like they are from a system 2 generations ago or more... honestly, you've seen better on the PS1... but these are few and far between. My BIGGEST gripe with the game is the targetting, I'm fighting Metallo and I want to target his robots that fly around him first, I target Metallo. I want to chuck a gas tanker at Metallo, I target his robots... needless to say, that gets rather old rather quickly. Some of the big battles, I'm not sure how the mechanics of them work, for example, early in the game there's a gladiator match on Warworld and because Superman can't die in this game you have to win the crowd over, but the odds are against you, as in you get hit and your opponent gets a significant boost, whereas you can pound away on him all day and only get a portion of the same boost, meanwhile, he hits you with his completely undodgable attack. Needless to say, this was a rather frustrating exercise, avoid at all costs. Any Questions? Looks like NSR is going to have a new friend in the Cheap Bin
