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Review: Iron Man 2: The Videogame - Xbox 360, PS3

by Steven Williamson on 10 May 2010, 09:42 1.8

Tags: Sega (TYO:6460), Xbox 360, PS3, Action/Adventure

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Customise your suit

In a nut shell, Iron Man 2 is a blast ’em up. Get up in the sky, target enemies and shoot them. That’s about it. You can play through the entire game in one long session and finish it simply by using the lock on targeting system and mashing the fire buttons until it’s all over. There’s nothing challenging about the gameplay at all. The real challenge comes in the between level menu navigation.

Every time you finish a level you are awarded with research points which you an spend inventing new and improved weapons and ammo. However, it takes almost three quarters of the game to get the hang of these menus since you need to navigate through four separate main menus, some with sub-menus inside them, to invent stuff, hybridise them, attach them to your selection of iron suits and then chose the actual suit you want to wear for the mission. Worse, you can spend a good half hour tinkering with one of Iron Man’s suits only to find that the next mission is War Machine’s (one of Iron Man’s buddies in a suit similar to his own), and have to go back and do it all again.



And once you’ve done all that and are actually playing the game you’ll not notice any difference to the fights at all. The weapons may have been upgraded in theory but it doesn’t translate into the on-screen action at all.

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