Superheroes [NON-PC]
I have an old issue of Pc Gamer dating from April '96 with a preview about a game named "Superheroes". In the review it says that it should be a summer hit so I guess it got out in Summer '96 or '97.
The preview claim it is a super hero Xcom clone. Basically, you have super heroes and super powers and you use them to fight crime and 3 super villain leagues. Quote:
Does someone know anything about this title? |
Sounds like an intresting game to me :ok:
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I believe I´ve read that it never got out-/
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A shame really, it really sound great. :w00t:
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That is correct. SimTex abandoned the Superheroes project, but it was picked up by the Australian company Irrational Games and released under the title Freedom Force in 2002.
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And the name was "Agents of Justice"
And what it evolved to, Freedom Force Article of the curse of Superhero games-/ /Edit/ Freedom Force was a success-/ |
A success maybe, but was it any good? I reckon 3D graphics on the snapshots, and that just can't be a good omen.
That's definitely not a game I would buy only by the looks. That's pretty much the opposite! |
Agents of Justice was an attempt to use the XCOM concept in a new setting, but it got bogged down in the move to a new graphics engine (which was never Simtex's strong point). What they showed each year at E3 was great, but they did that 3 years running. Freedom Force doesn't have the same scope as the original, but it's a reasonably good if limited RPG/strategy hybrid.
When you said Superheroes, at first I thought you meant Superheroes of Hoboken: an extremely funny RPG/adventure hybrid. :D |
I meant-/
A success in my eyes, a good game, in my eyes-/ |
Looks good to me. :ok:
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