The instant you set foot on the stage, you will smell that ancient scent of a good beat ‘em up (yeah, remember that genre?). And not only they did that with one Superman but with a whole bunch of different Supermen.Īfter pressing the start button, you will be taken to the first cutscene of the game where you are introduced to the story that preceded the actual death of Superman, where Kal-El must stop the Underworlders in their attempt to control the power lines of Metropolis. Blizzard and Sunsoft, however, managed to create a good game, basing its entire storyline in the comic book. Just as it happened with Marvel’s Maximum Carnage, this comic book story translates incredibly well into the gaming world, something that is not a minor thing since if you go through all the Superman games, even the new ones, you will see that, despite all the abilities the Man of Steel has (or maybe BECAUSE of them), developers have been unable to work out a good title. But lets not get carried away, shall we? DC accompanied its new masterpiece with a wide variety of products, among them was the video game “The Death and Return of Superman”, which is a spoiler in itself when you think about it.īlizzard Studios and Sunsoft joined forces to develop (for the SNES and the Genesis) one of the few Superman games worth remembering. The graphic novel is plain awesome, it’s full of action, the pace is fast where it should be and it slows down when necessary, if you, dear reader, have not yet read it, just do a back flip (I know you can do it, sweet computer ninja) and go grab a copy, download it, I don’t care, but this is a masterpiece for all comic lovers, hell, for everyone. The Death of Superman was a commercial success worldwide, and a well deserved one. That’s how Superman’s death sentence was signed. Carlin stated later that “the world was taking Superman for granted” so they went ahead and decided to just wipe the last son of krypton off the Earth. In 1992 during a meeting with the group handling the Superman series, Mike Carlin, Superman editor, said about the man of Steel: let’s just kill ‘im.
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