Superman Returns

Everyone who says that a good Superman game can't exist needs to take a look at this. The gameplay is really fun, and the base concept is perfect. Sadly the execution of the ideas at play does not deliver in the least, but that is more due to a lack of vision and a lousy, repetitive storytelling style. Imagine a concept like this in the hands of Rocksteady or Insomniac and a bigger budget, and tell me you don't see a good Superman game in there.

really loved the sense of momentum and velocity when you're airborne in this back in the day, but beyond that the thing is dry to the bone in pursuit of ensuring that flight feels as good as it goes without sacrificing too much in the way of performance. in retrospect the emptiness of its world reminds me of that prototype footage for the Flash game from around the same time.

feel like Superman's one of those properties that's inevitably always going to be extremely performance-intensive if you want to pull it off in a Be The Batman-type way with whatever the contemporary production values are at the time, so i'm not surprised they haven't tried it since then. and even then, doing something more contained or that maybe depowers Clark to streamline things into a more manageable game would be a really difficult sell.