Wednesday 10 May 2006
With so many superhero games crowding the aisles, Superman has a fight on his hands to stand out from the lycra-clad crowd. Still, if the Man of Steel can't overcome the odds, who can?
We sat down with Chris Gray, executive producer at EA Tiburon - the guys behind GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, but we won't hold that against them - to discover how Superman Returns is flexing Clark Kent's hidden muscle.
Hulk can pick up a car or a bus, but only Superman can pick up a building or a bridge. The fact he can fly at high speed through the city gives us a lot of game mechanics you wouldn't see in other games.
Flying is one of the big challenges that we wanted to deal with early on, so we spent a lot of time studying games that had flying in them and working out why they were hard to control. We've created a flying mechanic that's meant to be something like swimming through the air, but at the same time it's like driving in three dimensions.
