In the first category, there's graphics and gameplay and plenty of evidence to suggest we'll eschew the former if the latter's up-to-scratch.
Even if you've never played a game before, a quick look at any games review archive would give you an outline as to what people want and what things most annoy. What you get is Transformers: The Game – with clunkier controls and worse animation.Īs achievements go, it's almost remarkable. What you want is the sort of free-ranging fun provided by Spider-Man 2 only with in-built jet engines and state-of-the-art weaponry.
Unfortunately, the only metallic thing that's likely to be flying around is the disc as you remove it from your console and hurl it, and its botched contents, from the nearest window. That, by any masculine stretch of the imagination, is going to be fun. You've got Robert Downey Jr, Don Cheadle, Mickey Rourke and Samuel L Jackson among the voice cast – and a game that effectively allows you to put on THAT suit, fly around and shoot things with the pulsey thing in your palm. While movie tie-ins rarely impress – the recent Wolverine and Alice in Wonderland being notable exceptions – it's been a while since it generated something as flat-out awful as Iron Man 2.
