Impressions: Superman Returns XBL demo |
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As we mentioned earlier, we did download the game, and man was the thing huge. Took us around five hours to finish getting the thing in our HD. Maybe it's our connection... or something like that. Anyway, since this is only a demo we'll refrain from commenting on the graphics and the sound (the thing looks amazing though). Instead we'll focus on how the gameplay feels and how the demo ran.
Let's start with the title screens and how the game starts up. The black and red EA logo animates and scares the bejeesus out of us, good thing the DC logo was there to rescue us from the horrific demonic terror that is the EA logo. The Warner Bros. logo shows up, zooms-in, and then eventually turns into the familiar "movie" Superman title screen. Yay.
We start the game and we get informed that only the industrial islands of Metropolis is accessible. Boo. Then we find out that we have to stop Matallo and his metallic henchmen from ruining the place. Yay. Two "yays" one "boo". Looks good so far.
Then the control screen pops up. They're easy enough, for one thing they sort of remind me of GTA. Left trigger allows to target and right trigger allows you to use the superpower that's currently selected. The d-pad lets you select between breath powers (either a freezing attack or a wind attack), and heat-vision. B lets you block, A let's you pick up and throw stuff, X makes you do actions (like punches and stuff), and then Y let's you switch between walking on the ground or flying. Left bumper lets you Hover and right bumper let's you speed up.

Now that we're done with the controls let's start with the game-play. A few minutes into the game and it will be apparent that the control scheme, although similar to GTA, takes a little more time to get used to. It's a little clumsy at the start, some of us here found flying to be confusing, some of us here found the ground controls to be a problem, but after some time, you'll eventually be able to move fluidly across metropolis at supersonic speeds. This is where the fun starts.
If you want it to be, this game is like GTA with superpowers. You can freeze cars, throw stuff, freeze people, cause minor earthquakes, freeze people, fly into the stratosphere, cause sonic booms, freeze enemy robots, blow up cars with your heat vision, and yeah, freeze people. A whole lot of "yays" here.
You can't just run around and do random stuff though. You ARE Superman, so when missions start, you sort of have to go do them. The world needs a savior and you're it. Metallo's minions will threaten the city every few minutes, and you have to go to where they are and turn the annoying pieces of metal into scrap. After you beat up enough baddies, the kryptonite powered man-machine shows up, too bad the demo ends just when things start to get exciting.

Well, the demo was good fun and all, and the annoying cut sort of does make you want to get the retail version. Unlike the THP8 demo though, this one sort of left us wishing that the retail version will include few more features. While the game certainly has a GTA-esque freedom to it, we sort of wished that the game has a system that will reward you for doing random good deeds and saving civilians. Of course this may only be because we've been playing Saint's Row a bit too much, and we got used to the free roaming task/mission set-up.
We never needed to use the "restart objective" option in the pause menu, but it does promise that the retail version will have challenging missions. Those Bizarro trailers and those Mongul screens come to mind. Curious.
Good fun demo. Does its job well and makes you curious about the retail version and how the boss fights in it will play. More "yays" than boos.
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I think it is a cool game... I noticed that there were some COMBOS you could do.. Maybe/hopefully there are more cool ones to unlock... Would like to see some cool Aerial attacks.. Like how you can fly arround freely... very good feel... One lil thing that bothered me (maybe it was just me) I tried to take the Imjured civilians to an Ambulance, but when i got to one and dropped them off nothing happened... Maybe ther are certain ones you have to find.. COOL game all-n-all... Will be getting upon release...
Quite sloppy animations and gameplay overall, although flying around is great. Weird animations while attacking on the ground. I think the final version will be the same experience as the demo, just flying around the city after bad guys.
DAMN 5 hours to download it?...it took me 30 minutes, your connection must SUCK! LOL.
Although the graphics are polished you can't consider this a next gen title. The city doesnt feel "alive" like it does in the GTA/Saints Row titles. The NPC's are too robotic. Flying around is fun but not enough so that it makes me want to buy the game. I guess the biggest disapointment is the fact that there isn't any model damage. When you fly into a building it throws a bitmap texture on where you hit so it looks like you broke the wall but it doesnt actually damage anything. Also its the same bitmap weather you hit a skyscraper or a silo. Kinda lame considering they could have done a lot more on the 360.
I have Download the demo, played the demo and it sucks, choppy graphics, slowdown almost all the time, you need to get used to the controls so is not pick up and play, well in this demo i absolutely had more fun causing havoc in the city well in the low part of the city that doing the missions they where offering here, when you finished the demo it shows details of the final game in action and it looks very good, a lot of action shows but to much slowdown, this game looks like an xbox game in steroids.
I tried it last night. I am somewhere between "its ok" and "its dissapionting". I guess its the best superman simulator yet, which doesnt say much, as there has never been a good superman game. Even once I got used to the controls, superman was just bouncing around everywhere. It was frustrating trying to pick up an injured civilian, only to grab a nearby civilian who is just walking by. The graphics are very dissapionting. I felt like I was playing a PS2 game. The free roaming city sounds cool at first, except all you do with that big city landscape is zoom to waypoints. Right when the demo starts getting interesting, and something cool starts to happen, thats when it ends. When I saw it, I said "they better let me fight him before the demo ends". Again, dissapointed. Combat was LAME. lockon + Heatvision = Win, except for the one battle where you have to punch the robots. One last thing that kinda bothered me. Superman "looks" like the guy from the live action movie, while Bizzaro and Mongul looked like they were right out of the animated series. I think the art style should be more uniform.
the demo was fun I agree with all that flying around is great and hanging out high above the city is cool to, but i dont like the combat system that much, it worked well for spiderman 2 but not really for this game, speaking of which doesnt this superman game seem to be almost exactly the same to spiderman 2 even down to the menu color and the font in the pause menu...hhhhmmm...but anyway, I liked it and I will probably get it because I never bothered to play the other superman games once I saw the reviews so Im still open minded and this game made a fairly good impression.
Took me less than one hour with Comcast (8 MBps max, which I never get half of) to download at 4:30 PM, busy time for XBL (all the kiddies are home then) Anyway, yeah, it wasn't very good. When you're up in the air and flying and just checking the city out, even just the small island you get, it feels great, but then you have to actually get in to combat. That blows. Everything about it just feels sloppy and unpolished, from the lock-on and movement to the attacks themselves. And I know graphics aren't everything, but this game really disappoints in that department. I don't think I'll be getting this, not for $60. Just like Godfather for 360, sorry EA, but try harder next time (not gonna happen).
Demo only took 30 min for me to download. A few perks to the game is that you have the ability to fly anywhere within the 3 islands in the demo. I personally had to see how high I could fly and also see if I could crash land into the ground. So the fighting in the demo isn't as glorious as I was expecting it to be. The graphics are on the shaky side, but not horrible to the point of projectile vomiting. I personally think that this is a cookie cutter game and really there isn't much to be desired from the game. If you’re looking for a game that reminds you a lot like City of Heroes without the MMO aspect, this might be your game. I was personally not thrilled with this game and will most likely not buy nor rent this game.
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