10 Awful Video Games Based On TV Shows
1. Superman 64
Based on Superman: The Animated Series, Superman 64 had all the promise of being a soaring success for Nintendo (it was heralded as Supes’ first 3D outing) but ended up crashing, burning, and become one gaming’s biggest failures.
Dogged by rumours of Warner Bros and DC Comics putting the kibosh on all aspects of development – it was Warner that reportedly instructed the game had to be set in a virtual Metropolis, to appear less dangerous – the game suffered numerous delays and was something of a slog for developer’s Titus Software to get onto shleves.
Eventually released in the summer of 1999, Titus would have wished the game had dissolved in a plume of Kryponite fog – a naff game dynamic that was employed to mask a dodgy render distance – with critics quick to label it not only the worst game of the year, but also of all time. From the awful flight mechanics, which involve multiple button presses just to get the Man Of Steel airborne, limited game modes and, infamously, those bleeding hoops in the sky, it’s not hard to see why Superman 64 has zoomed into the Guinness Book Of Records as one of the most lowest ranked videogames in existence. Unheroic.
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