10 Hugely Popular Licenses Video Games Can't Get Right

4. Superman

Funnily enough, until Rocksteady's exceptional Arkham series, Batman could very well have been joining his DC compatriot on this list. Superhero video games tend to be incredibly mediocre with the aforementioned Arkham series completely changing the genre for good - Superman is desperate for a similar rework. Infamously, Superman was the focus of one of the worst games ever created by human hands. Superman 64 is an ugly mess in which the player has to fly Superman through a series of rings - exciting stuff. The game is intentionally foggy (to hide a terrible draw distance), the controls are notoriously awful and the whole thing should never have seen the light of day. It doesn't get any better for Supes. Superman Returns (an awful tie-in to an awful movie) again suffers from poor controls and ugly graphics (it did not make use of the power of the next-gen Xbox 360 at all) and was widely mocked for featuring a tornado as the final boss of the game. Yes, a tornado. Those two games are the most prominent examples of terrible Superman games but no game starring the Man Of Steel could ever be regarded as exceptional. Sure, it's a tough task to make a challenging, constantly entertaining game featuring a bulletproof man who can shoot lazers from his eyes but even the most basic technical functions are wrong in most Superman games - there are no excuses for that. An Arkham-style reboot is desperately needed for Superman then, although that particular style of game would not suit him at all. If a developer really cares for the character and is willing to build an adventurous game around his strengths and qualities (rather than forcing him into a generic title), they would probably be backed by many.