Dear Jimmy Reviews Iron Man (PS3)

Dear Jimmy Reviews...

If you haven’t noticed by now, I’m kinda a comic fan-boy. That can sometimes make me more forgiving than I probably should be with Comic book tie-ins when it comes to games. Take ‘Web Of Shadows’ for instance. Despite the fact that most fights are basically me abusing the hell out of the web-zip attack, the way the street crimes are so boring you’ll very quickly ignore them, and even the quick time events that appear outta nowhere with no warning are all mitigated by my enjoyment of the web-slinging, and the feeling that I’m fucking Spider-man.( By which I mean to say that I am Spider-man and I am so excited about this I used an expletive. As opposed to implying that Peter Parker and I am having carnal relations.)

So if web-slinging is entertaining, then surely soaring around at mach-whatever in the Iron Man armour must be the most amazing thing ever, right? The answer is a resounding ‘kinda?'

Halloween Reviewfest Conclusion:

Dear Jimmy Reviews...

 

Up until last year’s allegedly final film the ‘Saw’ franchise was something of a Halloween tradition, and is something that seems to have divided cinema goers. Some see it as a lumbering dinosaur of a series that had long since worn out it’s welcome, whereas others see it as nothing but shock whoring ‘torture porn’. But there must have been some sort of a demand for it, since the series ran for a total of seven films with many fans still hoping for an eighth. Then again, this game got a sequel, too, so that’s probably less an indicator of quality than it is an indicator of how many people are dumb enough to spend money on something.

I’ll put my hands up to personally being a fan of the films, though, mainly due it having some fairly intelligent writing under all that gore and it’s sticking to analogue special effects in a digital age, for the first seven movies at least. Plus Tobin Bell’s performances each year were always the films’ saving grace. One thing that EVERYBODY agrees on unanimously, though, is that the game freakin’ sucks and couldn’t be salvaged by a million Tobin Bells!