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Iron Man, one of Marvel’s most indestructible Super Heroes, blast onto videogame platforms with this adaptation of the big screen movie. This third-person action game immerses players in the world of Tony Stark — the brilliant industrialist and inventor who both created and became the world’s toughest hero – Iron Man. By customizing the advanced technology in Iron Man’s suits, gamers can take advantage of a wide array of high-impact weapons to strategically blow-up and destroy any enemy force and fight to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.

Drawing from both the movie and comic book storylines, Iron Man features the voice talent of the stars from the major motion picture — Robert Downey Jr, Terrence Howard, and Shawn Toub. Utilizing the power of next-gen gaming consoles, Iron Man offers photo-realistic graphics, non-linear gameplay and huge open worlds in which gamers can travel as far as the eye can see.

Genre: Action Adventure

Publisher: SEGA

Developer: Secret Level

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May 5, 2008 –
I have good news for folks who are fans of cutting themselves and/or rolling around in broken glass; Iron Man has been released for your console of choice and offers a completely new way to self-mutilate.

This time, it’s your psyche.

At first, Iron Man comes off as a title that won’t have you hurling controllers across the room and screaming obscenities, but don’t be fooled. Loosely based on the blockbuster movie bearing the same name, Iron Man casts you as Shellhead and sets you loose on more than a dozen missions of enemies, missiles and anti-aircraft guns. The game pulls in characters from the comic universe that weren’t in the big screen version — folks such as Whiplash and Titanium Man — and gives you an incredibly glossed over version of the events happening on the silver screen.

Robert Downey, Jr. and Terrance Howard reprise their roles as Tony Stark and Jim Rhodes respectively, but the cinemas they’re in look terrible and the voice work sounds phoned in.

Still, Iron Man has a few good points. On your quest to vanquish the legions of foes in front of Tony, you’ll have access to all of Stark’s toys. Before heading into each mission, you’ll get the chance to tinker with your suit’s configuration when it comes to Core Systems, Repulsors, Power Systems, Auxiliary Weapons, and Mobility Enhancements. During this process, you’ll get to decide if you want a faster gatling repulsor or if you want the more powerful ion repulsor — as you play, you’ll earn money to unlock further technological feats. In the game, you can click around on your D-pad and distribute the power from your heart to make one aspect of your Iron Man façade more powerful than another. If you want to go super-fast, you can kick the juice to your thrusters and tear up the sky. The same can be done with the power of your punch, the lethalness of your weapons, and how quickly your health regenerates.

Of course, none of this matters because Secret Level and SEGA have made sure that most people will never enjoy their time as Iron Man. Let’s go over the formula that every level follows: there’s a terrible looking and sounding cutscene, it’s followed by a short intro to the oncoming battle, orange objectives pop up on the screen, Tony goes after the orange objectives, Tony destroys the orange objectives, more orange objectives pop up, Tony beats those objectives, and this process continues until the level is over.

Sounds redundant, right? It is, but that’s not why I’m flogging this game. What ruins Iron Man is the fact that while you complete these remedial tasks, you are constantly attacked by swarms and swarms of retarded, respawning enemies.

The … the horror.When I came upon a Maggia compound — oh, there are these people who bought a whole bunch of Stark weapons and are using them for evil — I needed to get in and destroy the bad guys along with a secondary objective of crushing some Prometheus rockets before they obliterated neighboring cities. However, anytime I stuck my head out to try and crush one of these missiles, I was flattened by the tanks, dropships, rocket launchers and seemingly hundreds of other men waiting to kill me. I’d try to be the hero, get stomped and lose one of my four lives, which can never be refilled in level