Note, this is not intended to insult anyone. Not gamers, comic fans, and certainly not X-Play (I think they're JUST famous enough to get away with my murder).

Superheroes. Their ficticious adventures, whether canon or "imaginary tale", have entertained us, our parents, our kids, and shall continue to do so within the confines of their comics, movies and TV shows. But SOMETIMES, those media outlets just aren't enough exposure for the tights-wearing guardians of truth, justice, and the American way (take THAT, France!).

Games will be manufactured featuring the characters we love, hate, or feel both ways about. It's a potentially win-win situation: Anyone involved in making the game gets the pleasure of making it and the money you give to buy the game, and you can play as a caped crusader of justice or a badass vigilante dishing out some justice of your own.

Note, I said POTENTIALLY win-win. Sadly, many superhero games aren't given deserved detail in many areas, leading them down a trail to Sucksville, with a stop in Crappenburg. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, based on a GOOD movie of the same name (redundant, ain't I), was terrible. Bad graphics, sound, and a poor fighting system. Then you have infamously bad games that you hear are bad, so must be; Superman 64 and Aquaman. Dark Tomorrow, while not as bad as BB:RotJ, had really bad controls. And when Sporky complains about controls, you KNOW they're bad.

What's worse about these games isn't they're graphics or story or sound. Really, the capital sin of these games is that their suck influences the look of superhero/comic games in general. People unfairly claim a game with Batman or Cyclops on the cover sucks because the Man of Steel had a sub-par game ten years ago.

Why should we let the Aquaman's or the Superman 64's mean that X-Men Legends and Spider-Man 2 are bad? In short: they shouldn't. These games shouldn't all be corraled into the same...um...corral...based only on the similarity of flashy costumes and inhuman powers.

Spidey2, though based more on the movie than comics, is thus/by far THE Spidey game to own. It does really does let you BE the web-head, and does a great job of doing so.

X-Men Legends is a treat to play. The game that sets itself apart from any one incarnation of the X-Men, but at the same time blends in aspects from the movies, mainstream comics and the Ultimate line. The powers are great to handle and it's awesome they included the Fastball Special (ah, the classics).

Nay, fellow gamers/comic fans/geeks, judge not the present based on the past. Don't let the old mistakes blind you to the reparations. Ask not what your opinion can do for you, but what you can do for your opinion!

Yeah, I don't know where I'm going with this either...