13 Criminally Underrated Marvel Superhero Video Games You Must Play

There's never been a better time to be a superhero fan. With the likes of Captain America: Civil War and Batman V Superman hitting screens this year and with what seems like hundreds of comic book movies being planned until the year 2049 (at the earliest), the superhero bug isn't going away any time soon.

Yet superhero video games, for whatever reason, have never quite been the staple they should be in the industry. Sure we have the likes of the Batman Arkham series, but those examples are more of the exception rather than the rule when it comes to great comic book experiences.

But that doesn't mean video game fans have been hard done by, however, as there are plenty of amazing releases already out in the wild that were criminally overlooked when they first came out. Marvel heroes in particular have had a pretty good track record when it comes to gaming adaptations, with even the most shameless of crossover cash-grabs proving to be a pretty great time if you give them a fair chance.

Whether they were licensed games wrongly written off because they were associated with a big-budget movie, or simply smaller titles you might not have realised even existed, there are plenty of comic book games out there that could give you the superhero power-rush we're all craving.

Beenox's first tie-in to the recently deceased Amazing Spider-Man movie series was essentially a total carbon-copy of the Batman Arkham formula, but it was a good carbon-copy. In fact, by keeping the stealth gameplay that was popularised in their other Spidey game, Shattered Dimensions, these movie-licensed efforts offered a variety in gameplay that very few other titles based on the web-head ever have before.

But of course, there's really only one thing you have to nail when it comes to Spider-Man games, and that's the ability to web-swing all around New York City. While it might be blasphemous to say, considering there isn't much skill involved in Beenox's traversal system (webs don't even have to attach to buildings), but The Amazing Spider-Man's web-swinging system is the best to feature in any Spidey game ever.

Sure, it doesn't take much skill to use, but by pulling the camera in close and following Spider-Man all the way down into the deep of New York as he narrowly misses cars and swoops around buildings, Beenox gave web-swinging a cinematic look that felt just as satisfying to play as it was to watch.

If you can get it cheap, this Spidey game is worth it for that alone.