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The
customization and
the amount of flare
in
Iron
Man 2
make it a decent
game. It’s cool to
unlock different
versions of the Iron
Man armor and it’s
cool to upgrade
different weapons
and ammunitions. The
game itself is an
awesome concept too.
The mechanics are
decent and the
textures and
graphics are good
too, the problem is
there are a ton of
bugs throughout the
game and some are
too frustrating to
continue playing.
Visually this isn’t
an impressive title.
Honestly it looks
like it could be a
title on the
previous generation
of systems. The
unarmored characters
look terrible,
sometimes
ridiculously so.
There
are lots of outdoor
levels and when it’s
just sky and clouds,
it looks fine. But
there is a level at
the beginning of the
game with a lot of
mountains and that
type of terrain.
There’s no detail.
You don’t see trees
or anything like
that just a texture
on the mountain.
There wasn’t any
effort put into it.
The menu style is
sleek
and
Iron Man and War
Machine look fairly
good too- in
costume, but the
lack of effort put
into designing some
of the levels is
disappointing.
The
controls and the
concept of
Iron
Man 2
are the fun parts of
the game. The game
isn’t that
impressive
graphically but the
concept of the game
is fun. You go
through a different
story than the
movie, so you get a
different story to
work through that
doesn’t spoil the
movie. The levels
aren’t boring or
repetitive. You fly
around, blow up
stuff and advance
the story. It’s a
decent enough
approach and it
works fine. The
controls are a
little bit tricky
with a strange
targeting system and
an even stranger
flying system but
after a few tries
you’ll catch on to
things and the game
becomes pretty fun.
It may be fun to
play but there are
some frustrating
moments too. There
are a lot of
struggles with
clipping throughout
the title. Your
enemies will get
blasted into walls
until they magically
come back into play
on the indoor
levels. In the
previously mentioned
mountain level if
you fly to low and
close to a mountain,
they’ll just
disappear and
everything will look
terrible. Not fun.
The
audio is the best
part of
Iron
Man 2.
With voices from the
real actors it’s
more fun to play
through the title.
You get to hear Sam
Jackson as Nick
Fury. Don Cheadle as
War Machine and
Downey Jr. as Iron
Man. It’s good that
they got the actual
actors to contribute
to the audio of the
title and it makes
the game more
enjoyable than it
otherwise would have
been.
Iron
Man 2
isn't great but it
isn't terrible. The
graphics aren’t
great and there are
some bugs to deal
with but a good
story, a good
concept, a good
control system, and
actors from the
movie voicing the
characters make it
more enjoyable. It’s
not a great game but
as far as licensed
titles go it’s not
awful.
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