10 Best Marvel Video Games You're Totally Missing Out On

When it comes to superhero video games, Marvel's stable of comic book characters have always reigned supreme. While yes, DC probably has the best comic book game franchise ever with Batman's Arkham series, video game adaptations have been nowhere near as kind to the company's other tentpole heroes.

Marvel on the other hand has a rather rich history when it comes to adapted properties. Spider-Man games in particular, while often given a bad reputation online, have virtually always been solid, and have never hit the bottom of the barrel lows of Superman 64 or even the most recent Superman Returns.

However, there's still plenty of shovelware to shift through, and the wealth of annualised franchises, movie tie-ins and quick cash-grabs have somewhat diluted the Marvel gaming portfolio over the years. Unfortunately, this has made it more difficult for fans to identify which games are the company's shining jewels and which are better off being forgotten to history.

But there are quality experiences to be found if you look hard enough, and even though they might lack the polish and production of Rocksteady's almost perfect Arkham series, they're still some of the greatest superhero games that you can find on console.

Captain America: Super Soldier was a great game that just came out in the wrong place and at the wrong time. Not only were players already completely tired of terrible movie tie-in releases, but the original Arkham Asylum had just dropped to show the entire world how great superhero games could be.

And as a result this wrongly maligned Captain America game was thrown under the bus by comic-book fans who outright rejected the notion that a mid-tier licensed game could ever be good.

But their loss is our gain, as Captain America: Super Soldier is the best gaming outing the titular hero has ever been a part of. Although it admittedly straight-up steals Arkham's combat, it does it well enough that you won't care once you start smashing Nazi skulls.

The imaginative and unique World War 2 setting doesn't do the game any harm either, and the faithful movie voice cast makes this feel like the definitive Captain America experience.