CBR: The Ten Worst Comic Book Video Games Ever Made

**CBR News** · 06-22-2011, 12:58 PM

After appraising the best, CBR presents the Ten Worst Comic Book Video Games of all time, featuring stinkers like "Catwoman," "Marvel Nemesis," "Fantastic Four" and more!

Full article here.

**Jeff Bohn** · 06-22-2011, 01:09 PM

My immediate thought was X-Men for the NES. Horrible, horrible game. Glad to see it on the list!

**blastbeatz** · 06-22-2011, 01:16 PM

Superman 64 is not only the worst super hero game but it just may be one of the worst games ever made.

**cookepuss** · 06-22-2011, 01:34 PM

IIRC, there's actually a bug in the game that essentially lets you warp to the end and beat the game without doing much of anything. I discovered that after actually suffering through the intended gameplay. Lousy game to be sure, but gamers were pretty hungry for ANY X-Men game at that point in time.

LJN had a pretty sketchy history regarding Marvel's franchises anyway.

- They turned Silver Surfer into a tough as nails, but very generic Gradius-like shooter.
- Wolverine was simply sad. It took its cue from Sunsoft's far superior Batman and churned out a mediocre hop-n-bop side scrolling platformer.
- Uncanny X-Men, obviously, sucked.
- The original Gameboy versions of Amazing Spider-Man and Punisher were any good. The subsequent sequels had better visuals, but played like dirt.

For me, one of the most underrated X-Men games was "X-Men: Madness in Muderworld" for the PC. Looking back, it's pretty dated. For one it came out, it actually was pretty damn solid. It was a Pitfall-like sidescroller, but it had some RPG-like elements to it too. Wolverine actually had a working healing factor, which I hadn't seen in games at the time. Storm flew. Nightcrawler's teleportation turned out to be crucial for some puzzles, as did Cyclops' optic blasts. For the time, it was an awesome X-Men game. Still fun for the nostalgia.

Too bad that the sequel, "X-Men II: Fall of the Mutants" was so awful. In fact, that game deserves to be right up there with Uncanny X-Men for the NES. Being a PC game, the visuals were a step up, but it was a pretty mindless attempt at action strategy. You could, like Uncanny, warp from beginning to end with almost no conflict. And when you DID have to fight, you could just hold down the attack key for a quick and pain free kill.

That game hurt me the most. Given what a good story they had to draw from and how potentially badass the rogue's gallery could've been, it failed on every level. How could you possibly go wrong with a cast of playable characters that included...

Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Archangel, Iceman, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, Phoenix (Rachel), Dazzler, Havok, Wolverine, Psylocke (Still a Brit back then),
Colossus, Rogue, & Longshot

That's the wet dream cast for an X-Men game. Still, they totally f***** it up. Totally. That game should be on this list. I blame it on Medalist, who replaced Paragon, the developer of the 1st game.

**bjmorga** · 06-22-2011, 01:35 PM

My brother and I played the heck out the TMNT game. I do recall that it was hard, but I don't think the younger versions of us thought it was terrible.

**worstblogever** · 06-22-2011, 01:47 PM

I really wanted to like "The Tick" the video game, but man was it repetitive and boring. After 20 minute levels of battling the same generic goons, you'd finally get a dull boss fight against someone like Chainsaw Vigilante.

Other than the theme, not so good.

**nightwing8782** · 06-22-2011, 01:52 PM

No way was TMNT a bad game. It's still one of my favorite games. Yes, it's impossible and even when you get past the water level, I cannot figure how where to go in the third level. But it's endless entertainment. There are far worse comic book games. I don't understand how anyone could have liked Batman: Rise of Sun Tzu. It was the same thing over and over again without any difficulty or interesting aspects. At least, TMNT was hard.

**cookepuss** · 06-22-2011, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by nightwing8782

No way was TMNT a bad game. It's still one of my favorite games.

I totally agree. Especially for when it was made, it was an awesome game. I'd have replaced the NES TMNT with the GameBoy TMNT 2, which just had dead looking visuals and lazy/stiff gameplay.

**Evil Sneak** · 06-22-2011, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by blastbeatz

Superman 64 is not only the worst super hero game but it just may be one of the worst games ever made.

Worst. Game. Ever!

**Kid Kamikaze10** · 06-22-2011, 02:13 PM

I disagree with one entry on the list.

That's Rise of the Imperfects. It's pretty fun, gameplay wise. (the story mode sucked hard though)

I can think of some games that may fit better in this list than Rise of the Imperfects.

Namely Spawn the Eternal.

**Redem** · 06-22-2011, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by bjmorga

My brother and I played the heck out the TMNT game. I do recall that it was hard, but I don't think the younger versions of us thought it was terrible.

*This apply to me as well*

That game ruined a lot of childhood

got a small question the author talk about previous article about Superman 64 and I can't find it, can someone show me the way?

**midgetradio** · 06-22-2011, 02:26 PM

Totally agree with everyone else. TMNT was not a bad game, just a brutally difficult one. Still have absolutely no idea where you're supposed to go after you get past the water level. Beating that level is almost enough to make me feel like I beat the game.

**oy_the_brave** · 06-22-2011, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by bjmorga

My brother and I played the heck out the TMNT game. I do recall that it was hard, but I don't think the younger versions of us thought it was terrible.

My son and i were able to get to shredder several times but could never defeat him.