Superman

Superman 64 pisses all over one of the world's greatest superheroes in a truly tremendous insult of a game. It's so insulting to Superman as a character that it's kind of incredible in that respect. There is not a single ounce of 'good taste' in all the bad content this game has to offer, or through the lack thereof. Superman 64 is the most pathetic excuse of a game one could possibly think of. The game doesn't even have proper gameplay and the infamous flying-through-rings sections unfortunately is the majority of the gameplay.

Usually when small-house game developers take on a project with the stable IP of a character like Superman it takes unique and lacking effort to make a game THIS bad. Superman 64 is unfortunately one of those very games. IT. IS. BAD! And Titus may have very well gone bankrupt due to this game's notorious legacy and how it affected their future productions. They were doomed when the limits against the project forced them to make a contrived game that feels like an absolute chore to play through.

This game deserves a zero; I can't give one here but my god does it deserve whatever bad reception it got at the time, and STILL gets now. This is a Class A example of what NOT to do in video game-making.

This game is a screw up like BatMan Dark Tomorrow. The game have terrible controls, worst missions, and FLYING THROUNG RINGS!!!! Who thought this game would be self sold out? I'd rather play with wet dog s**t then this CRAP! The game was so bad that The Angry Video Game Nerd can't beat the game like this is one of the most disappointing game ever created and I hope Titus went down hill after releasing SuperMan 64.

Superman is one of those comic icons that cannot seem to appear in a really good movie or a good video game. It has to burn him up to see how successful Batman is as he has been in some good movies and two really good games at least. Granted the original two Superman movies are rather good, nothing else has been 'super'. The best game I have ever played with Superman is a Nintendo game where Superman looks all small and it is not a really good game, but it was sadly a lot more fun than this game and most others I have played featuring the man of steel. Perhaps he should get a better agent? The best representation of Superman I have seen is Superman the Animated series. This game is based off that one so it has to be good right? No, no, no and no. This game was released on the Nintendo 64, the worst of the Nintendo consoles released here in North America not including hand-held units. Not saying it was all bad as the Mario game was good on it, the Zelda games are classics, but all to often games would be of this quality on it. Also, it also seems to be a console completely devoid of traditional role playing games. That is my favorite type of game, and I do not recall playing any on this system and I cannot think of any that were released on this one...the Zelda games being the closest thing, but they are considered adventure. So what to say about this game? Well, most people never get beyond the horrid first level where Superman flies through rings as this is the ultimate challenge the fiendish Lex Luther could think of. My friend apparently never could get passed this, you should of seen the look on his face as I made it through the first time. Not only did I make it through the first set of rings, I made it through the first level. His response was hilarious being something along the lines of, "How the INSERT CURSE WORD did you do that?" I then made it to some horrid sewer level or something and promptly quit. The game is just ugly, nearly unplayable and I just do not believe they could not make a cool game based on the very good animated series. The graphics are the 3D block looking type with no textures or anything. Looks like you are watching that Dire Straits video, only the Dire Straits video looked more detailed. Later I would play Superman Returns, the game based on the mediocre movie and it fared better than this, but it to was a disappointment. Poor Supes just seems destined to never be in a good game.

I had the misfortune of renting this stinker one evening a couple of years ago. I thought it would be fun to use all of Superman's awesome powers to fight the forces of evil. What I got, though, was the opportunity to use Superman's awesome powers to do the butterfly-stroke through the dense green fog of a virtual Metropolis created by the evil mid of Lex Luthor. Seems ol' Lex has Supes trapped in a virtual world (don't ask me how that happened) and is torturing our intrepid hero by making him fly like a drunken blue jay through a series of rings floating all-the-hell-over the place. If you can get past that part, you can pick up a car and fly it to the end of the street. Woo.

The next level has you running about (not much room for the poorly-executed flying) through a sewer system getting the crap kicked out of you by random robot guards. "Use heat-vision," you say? Well, I'd love to. But, true to the comics and movies that we all know and love, the Man of Steel can only use his powers when he finds the little icons scattered around the level, and even at that you have a very limited number of uses. And they're not very effective, anyway.

Well, if you can stay awake long enough to get past the sewer level, then it's back out to the aerial slolam course to herky-jerk your way through the cleverly placed hoops. Luthor, you fiend!!!

Surely they at least put in a decent multiplayer game, right? Ladies and gentlemen, multiplayer is even worse than the single-player experience. It's a kind of mine-cart race between Lex and some of the other characters. I don't think Supes is even available for this. (Maybe he's an "unlockable" character for multiplayer.) You just zip around in your little flying bucket, shooting at your opponent and begging somebody to turn it off.

The graphics are unbearable, the sound is inexcusable, and the story (such as it is) is the dumbest thing you will ever encounter in this lifetime. How can the producers of this all-time classic clunker sleep at night? (It came in at #7 in Electronic Gaming Monthly's "20 Worst Games of All Time" - Jan. 2002 issue. It's hilarious.) All in all, avoid this game at all costs.

God! THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE. This game is horrible beyond words. The gameplay, graphics, and sound is all bad, everything is bad about this game. I don't know why Nintendo allowed this game to be release. I think Superman 64 should be ban from stores. I would rather pick up trash in a snow storm than play this game, it's that bad!! WORST GAME EVER!

I give this game 0 out of 10