shadokitty

The current Comic Book Challenge running now in the Comic Book Section got me to thinking. What are people's favorite comic book games?

I'll start. My two favorites are close to a tie, so I will list them both. I've been playing DC Universe Online since the games release, and also I've recently gotten into Injustice: Gods Among Us. I also have Arkham Asylum, but haven't gotten far enough into it to make a judgement on that game.

wlj

Marvel Heroes is pretty good. It is F2P -- www.marvelheroes.com

The Batman Arkham games are pretty impressive, but i still haven't completely finished one of them

Disney Infinity Marvel Heroes is pretty fun I think

Trevor

It's weird, but despite being a comic book collector since the 1970s, and video games being my second favorite hobby, I've rarely played comic book games.

Perhaps it is my negative memories of this keeping me away.

DthRdrX

The Arkham games .... not much else comes to mind.

wlj

wow, just brought back memories. i had that one. There was a spiderman atari game that was pretty damned good i remember

robin2099

Arkham games: Nuff said.

X-Men: Arcade: One of the best beat em ups ever.

Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions: Fun and total love letter to Spiderman.

X-Men Legends: Both games are really great.

Marvel Super Heroes: Another great action rpg. Seriously they need to release another one again.

Justice League: Heroes: Sadly I have no idea why this never got any sequel.

X-Men Origins Wolverine: Easily the best Wolverine game ever.

The Punisher: Way too underrated game from the PS2 and XBox. Capture The Punisher perfectly and the interrogations were fun.

Spiderman 2: Great start for an open world game before screwing it up for several games after.

Batman: Great and hard NES game.

Adventures of Batman and Robin: SNES version. Feels like an actual episode of the cartoon with all the references and even looks like it as well.

Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu: Fun underrated beat em up.

johnnysack

NES/SNES/Genesis comic games were mostly crap. It's gotten better in recent years though. I prefer Arkham City to Asylum and it may be my all-time favorite game based on a comic. Injustice was great while it lasted but got stale for me pretty quick. X-Men Legends on the original Xbox was a blast multiplayer.

And of course.... the 6-player X-men arcade cabinet.

wlj

the Batman NES game based on the movie was pretty good i remember. hard as hell though

majorjoe23

Hulk Ultimate Destruction is a lot of fun. You can just run around, beating up the military if you want.

robin2099

D'oh. Yeah don't know how I forgot that one. I'd also put Captain America: The first avenger in there as well. Fun game with good shield mechanics and a good framework that I wish they had continued in a second game.

Liver&Onions

Comic Jumper.

Just kidding, that game was poop.

Supermallet

My top two would likely be Spider-Man 2 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Keith6601

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES
TMNT: Turtles in Time

Supermallet

Turtles in Time was the jam, yo!

davidh777

I've played the three Arkham games (finished the stories, not 100%). The Tintin movie tie-in game was goofy and juvenile, but I liked it. This reminds me that I got the Marvel Heroes Alliance packaged with my 360 and never played it.

DVDChris

does the Walking Dead game count?

Shannon Nutt

It's a game based on the comic, why wouldn't it?

DVDChris

It's loosely based on the world of the comic, but all the characters are specific to the game.

Decker

wlj

Fans of these games should definitely try Marvel Heroes. It is basically the same type of game but with loot.

Decker

Is that an iOS game with tons of mircotransactions?

majorjoe23

Spidey's technique goes right from "The Rocker" to "The Prolapser."

Supermallet

I believe it's PC actually.

Michael Corvin

DuckTales

fujishig

All the Marvel vs. Capcom games. That's what Contest of Champions really makes me miss.

Freedom Force may not have been derived from an actual comic, but it's one of the best superhero comic book style games ever.

X-Men Legends/Ultimate Alliance got it right; I have no idea how it went so wrong with X-Men Destiny. Oh, I know, how about not letting you play as any of the actual X-men? So bad they destroyed all unsold copies (using the cover of a lawsuit or something... )

But seriously, give me a game where there's power progression featuring Marvel heroes in a beat-em-up, and I'm there. Infinity could have scratched this itch, and I wouldn't even have minded the DLC/figures, if they actually just made a dedicated game instead of a sandbox. As is, Lego Marvel is the closest we have to that.

Marvel Heroes is a PC game with a ton of microtransactions, right? Is there a way to win the various characters?