Rebooting… COMIC BOOK HEROES

Superheroes have been a staple of entertainment for decades, since Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman took the army of masked avengers from the printed page to the big screen. From lunchboxes to tie-in video games, superheroes are a genre to themselves. Mimicking the movies that inspired them, while many are treasured by fans the majority of tie-in games ride the wave of hype and are then forgotten. In the case of the games covered here, they’re deleted from the App Store as well as our memories, so we thought we would go back and look at these lost games to see if they can get our Spidey senses tingling.

SUPERMAN Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a Superman game! We could hardly have a round-up of comic hero titles without at least one featuring the Man of Steel. There were actually several Superman games for mobile, but this one by Chillingo Ltd has got to be our favourite. The simply-named Superman saw our hero soaring across the Metropolis skyline, taking on a myriad of enemies using many of his best-known powers. These include heat vision, super breath and super speed, but it’s the flying element which makes this game so much fun. The action took place over 18 levels as the evil mastermind, Lex Luthor, attempts to take over the world (well, what else does he have to fill his days?) The game was fairly…

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