Game Reviews

Summer is just around the corner, so I guess it’s that time of year again for Hollywood to roll out another Blockbuster Superhero movie. This time it’s the sequel to Iron Man, which is probably one of the best marvel movies to date. So with this massive release just about to hit the silver screen, it comes with no surprise that a video game is out just before the film. Iron Man 2 The Video Game has a lot to make up for. The original game was awful and very repetitive. So has SEGA redeemed itself?

The game is not based around the story of the film, but rather a whole new story altogether. This tale takes place in the movie universe but it’s not rehashing the big screen version and instead is written by Invincible Iron Man scribe Matt Fraction. Samuel L. Jackson and Don Cheadle are on hand to voice their characters (Nick Fury and Rhodes ) while sadly Robert Downey Jr. isn’t voicing Tony Stark. Eric Loomis, from the animated flicks, provides the voice of Iron Man and makes for a more than suitable stand in. Other characters such as Crimson Dynamo and Black widow (Natasha Romanov) will also appear in the game.

There is only one mode in the game and that is a campaign. This is a shame as I would have liked a CO-OP mode or even a battle area like in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The campaign will take you around 4-5 hours to finish on the normal difficulty setting. Changing the difficulty up to Formidable could add a few more hours but not much. I must admit I was hoping for a longer experience playing trough the levels as Iron Man and War Machine, but such is life. Before starting each mission you will be given the choice of which character you wish to play as. But you also have the choice of researching new ammunition, weapons, and modular enhancements. And let’s not forget the choice of Iron man’s suits. Unfortunately, you can only use the one War Machine armor but then it’s not his game, is it? Once you have researched a new item you can equip it to a certain suit in the Fabrication area, this will be where you assemble your custom weapons from the research you have done.