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G4: Green Lantern Hands-On First Look Preview

G4: "Developed by Double Helix Games , and written by longtime comic book scribe Marv Wolfman, Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters doesn’t follow the plot of this summer’s upcoming Green Lantern film. Instead it picks up some time after the events of the film, and takes place in the same universe of the movie.

You won’t be spending any time on Earth in this game. Instead, you’ll be taking Hal Jordan through conflicts and adventure on Oa, the home planet of the Green Lanterns, and two other planets from the comic books (Zamaron and Biot) in both ground-based combat and some flight levels."

oghost854763d ago

Rental!. and thats even pushing it lol. Instead can I be the guy who gets payed to play this?

archemides5184763d ago (Edited 4763d ago )

i would buy games like this (and thor and captain america) for $20, but since it still has a high price tag I will either wait till it's $20...or lose interest in the meantime. i mean seriously when it's obvious they haven't put as much into the development (some of the stuff like the ground and lighting looks like ps2), how can they expect people to pay as much as a AAA game. i will say that green lantern has a seemingly higher production value than thor or cap america. but still even at (effectively) $37 at amazon it's too much. $27 and i'd think about it on release.

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All Star Heroes: Top 10 DC Comics Video Games

Warner Brother's DC Entertainment has been known for putting out (mostly) consistent content for years, and that includes forays into video games. Given that DC focuses a lot more on their solo characters, particularly Batman, Superman and Green Lantern, than Marvel does, its no wonder that DC has had an easier time adapting their IP's to other trans-media proprieties. While Marvel's team movie effort The Avengers has proven wildly successful, DC's Dark Knight trilogy, recent Man of Steel film and the entire animated universe helmed by DC animation veteran Bruce Timm has defined an era of superhero cartoons and direct-to-dvd animated features.

Jackhass3951d ago

Man, DC Comics hasn't had great luck with games, has it? They had to resort to a few pretty average games to fill out the list.

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Why I Hate... Movie Tie-In Games

newbreview.com's David Lee tells the world why he hates movie tie-in games.

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wallis4298d ago

I weirdly enjoyed king kong and riddick. Don't know if riddick counts but butcher's bay is great fun. Also would the spider man games count? Some games are often associated with a movie but I'm not sure if they ought to be counted like say wolverine or avatar that are blatant tie ins. Either way I'm not so sure it's as black and white as most people say it is and there's often a little bit of wiggle room. Not ALL tie ins are terrible - if anything they're getting much better.

jjb19814298d ago

I hate them because they get slapped together and thrown out on the market. They are heavily time-released games with not much depth

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The 10 best and worst superhero games on PlayStation

We love superheroes. Those caped crusaders with swathes of incredible powers and a moral compass big enough to draw really enormous circles – what, wrong compass? Here are some of the best and worst forays into the complex minds of these over powered superstars.

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CustardTrout4335d ago

Thor, that game was something else.

PS3Freak4335d ago

No mention of Spiderman 2? How?

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r214335d ago

good thing they included inFamous 2, if they hadnt i would have raged! btw, there was another batman game to grace the PS consoles, the movie tie in to the first Batman movie starring Liam Neeson. The single player was pretty good, had plenty of stealth and combat.

Mr_cheese4335d ago

Got to be honest, I wasn't a massive fan of inFamous 2, kind of repeated the original title and never really had a lot of depth to it outside of the main story. Shame because the city scape was fantastic, it just lacked a life.

r214334d ago

well for me personally, inFamous 2 was way better than the first. Side missions were more interesting compared to the first installment and characters were more memorable.

Mr_cheese4334d ago

Perhaps just not my cup of tea, sorry guys.