8 Video Games That Mock You For Using Cheat Codes

8. Superman Returns

Look, just because you're playing the Man of Steel himself in the video game adaptation of Superman Returns, that doesn't mean you won't need or want a little help from a cheat code or two along the way, right?

And indeed, the game features cheats allowing players to harness Infinite Health and Stamina as well as all unlockable moves and in-game items, but it admittedly comes with a mildly spiteful and undeniably humiliating price.

Input any of Superman Returns' cheats and you'll be greeted with the unexpected pop of an achievement that's rather insultingly dubbed "Not That Super." The 'cheev's description then states that you "entered a cheat code in a desperate plea for help."

Though this is admittedly a relatively easy game where most players shouldn't need cheat codes, can you really blame anyone for spicing up its tapioca-bland gameplay with some cheats that let you run riot as Superman totally unchallenged?

Given that Superman Returns is a dreadfully dull superhero romp at the best of times, it's pretty damn cheeky of EA to start making wise-cracks about their own paying customers daring to break up the monotony with cheats - cheats which the devs themselves programmed into the game, no less.