The past few years have been very kind to comic book-based video games - but they weren't always skyscraper-swinging adventures like Ultimate Spider-Man. It used to be that every superhero game was a beat 'em up that threw waves of inept thugs at you while occasionally asking you to use the hero's signature power.
Oh, there's plenty of fist-meets-face action in X-Men: The Official Game, but each level is built just for a specific character. Iceman's missions are fast-paced races that involve
Ever since Nightcrawler teleported his way through the White House, drop-kicking and hip-tossing countless armed guards along the way in X2, he's been the one X-Man everyone's wanted to control. And while the past X-Men movie games have been a bland sort, Nightcrawler's inclusion may make the third film's tie-in action game a must-play.
For those not in the comic book loop, Nightcrawler's a blue-furred, teleporting, acrobatic mutant who can literally be in two places at once. Guiding him
It's been an incredibly long time since we've seen a space shooter the likes of Xyanide. Basically an updated, 2D, interstellar laser-fest in which your sole objective is eliminating each and every enemy that wanders onto the screen, Xyanide captures that old-school arcade intensity in a way that makes us ache for the good ol' days.
What instantly grabbed our attention was the sheer number of hi-tech gizmos our little space ship gave us to work with. Essentially, you move your ship around the
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