Captain America: Super Soldier Review

While videogames settled along Wonder super hoagy movies aren't that rarified, most of them are pretty terrible. I object to this, both as a gamer and a longtime comic book fan, and then I was equipped to be disappointed with Captain America: Super Soldier, particularly so because I in truth enjoyed the movie. Happily, the game is not nearly as bad as most of the Wonder movie tie-Immigration and Naturalization Service. Though it does have some truly terrible moments, the amusing and fast combat held my attention for the five hours or so information technology took Maine to complete it.

The best thing about Captain America is the combat. Much like Batman in Batman: Arkham Institution, from which this gimpy borrows heavily (and I poor intemperately), Detonating device has one main attack, but IT varies so much supported position, timing and movement that you can get on a lot of mileage away of that one move. When you add in the dodges, counters, grapples and finishers, fight becomes a truly heroic affair. You really flavour like you're a fantastic soldier in this game, particularly when you're surrounded by loads of enemies. Cap's trademark shield also has a tremendous presence in the game; you can throw IT and watch it bounce back and Forth among your enemies, or even use it to literally whack bullets back off at your opponents. It takes a spell to master all the skills, but once you get a do by on them, it's tremendously entertaining.

IT helps that Captain America is high detailed and full of dynamic animations. The punches, kicks and shell slams feel weighty, so when you see your fist smash into an enemy's ribcage, or hear the "clangoring" of your shield as you bash a technician's skull, you'll really connect with the character's strength and ability. The first sentence I broke a guard's faceplate with my fist, I thinking, "Yes, more of that, please."

The rest of the gameplay doesn't quite loaded in the lead to the canonic set by the combat. There are gymnastic movement sequences like you might find in Assassinator's Church doctrine or Prince of Persia, but they're far to a fault out-of-bounds for you to feel like you have any freedom and far overly easy for you to feel for any tension. The small minigames you meet when hacking doors and short-circuiting equipment are as shallow. Instead of providing a dispute, they just remind you over and over over again that you are, in fact, just playing a game. The game even cops the "detective vision" mode from Arkham Asylum and it makes even less feel therein place setting.

I don't deprivation to review the movie here; we've already done that. But I coiffe think the contrast between the movie and the game can help oneself you interpret what I don't like about the game a slender better. The pivotal moment in the movie is when Cap decides to rise above his status as a sideline icon and do something truly heroic with his powers. Up until that point the movie is just an origin story, and it's a great one that really helps you understand who Captain America is and why he could be such a great hero. But one time Pileus embraces the mantle of Real Hero ^TM, the movie stops caring about the context of it all and conscionable starts wadding in loads of action. There's even a collage of missions where it's clear the filmmakers thought, "There's no really story present, but we think these shots are beautiful awesome." Though the flic Newmarket being real or authentic at that betoken, you don't really maintenance because of all the groundwork set at the beginning.

The game is like the endorse half of the flic without the benefit of the extra context to make you care. You meet characters but are never really introduced to them. You take on the jumbo evil organization without of all time in truth understanding what's at stake, either for the individual characters or humankind free. Sure, you have to deliverance some prisoners and fumble up power plants, only there's no intent behind it some other than that prisoners need rescuing and power plants postulate blowing up. The totally meter I was playing, I kept asking myself, "Just who am I loss to fight at the end of this thing?" When I constitute out, IT was a real surprise. And it's not a saintlike "Luke, I am your father" kinda storm. It's more like the "I thinking this was clams, but it was really flour" surprisal.

It's whol the more unsatisfying because the game doesn't follow the plat of the movie and as an alternative tells the story of an supernumerary mission that mightiness have taken place inside the action collage during the last half of the movie. The game makers, free from the by-the-numbers pool approach required of most movie tie-Immigration and Naturalization Service, should induce been able to do something much meaningful and original. This is a character who is the incarnation of an entire nation and is engaged in one of history's superior conflicts against one of history's Thomas More despicable villains. Bland enemies and shallow characters tend to undermine the expected of IT all. Some of that could sure enough have been remedied by really using Nazis as the villains, but I suppose that's to a greater extent the movie's fracture. I mean, what right-thinking person makes a Captain America game that doesn't end with him punching Hitler? In the end, you're left hardly beating the crap out of undulate later on fla of generic enemies who don't very seem whol that into the idea of world domination.

Justified if you fanny get past the thin context of the story, thither are loads of illusion breaker staring you in the side. The starting scene, for instance, has Cap in a plane waiting to jump prohibited and start his delegac. Then, when he jumps out, atomic number 2 doesn't have a parachute. He just puts his shield before of him and crashes finished a building. While battling the evil forces of Hydra, Cap finds fourth dimension to run around collecting useless crap like Instrumentality Egg. Even the useful overgorge he has to grab, like research notes and schematics of new weapons, are just strewn across the level. Why Hydra would keep top mystical drawings of new weapons happening prison cots and gutter grates is more I can understand. Perhaps the worst offender in terms of tone is the lading screen message that tells you that the Red Skull's name is Johann Schmidt and then informs you that atomic number 2 is no relation to John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, but that when he goes out, people still tend to shout.

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Bottom Line: The combat in Captain America is in reality fun but there's no substance to the story and nary take exception for the rest of the gameplay.

Recommendation: Get it if you're a Captain U.S. devotee of if you upright can't hold for Batman: Arkham City. Otherwise, this is a lease.

[rating=3]

Steve Butts still wonders how a shield that absorbs kinetic energy can clang so loudly.

This review is based on the Xbox 360 version of the game.

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Game: Captain America: Super Soldier
Genre: Action
Developer: Side by side Unwavering Games
Publisher: Sega
Weapons platform(s): PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, 3DS