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Stark's Superflous Super Hero Stints
2008-04-28 16:07:12

This was a sneak peek at MUA!

Iron Man knows how to clear a room!

Look out, Frank, a giant Iron Man!

Just kidding. Here's the real thing.

Tear it up, Shellhead!

Talking games with Sega developers at NYCC.

Hi, everyone. Justin here. Sorry about missing the usual Friday blog time, but I'm still catching up from my trip to New York Comic-Con, but more on that later. Let's get to the matter at hand, our favorite armored game hero.

Ever since Iron Man has appeared in video games, three have felt especially odd. Not necessarily unwelcome, mind you. But still…odd. With that, we present…

IRON MAN’S TOP 3 MOST UNEXPECTED GAME APPEARANCES

3. "X-Men Legends II"
With all of the characters in the "X-Men Legends" games, seeing another Super Hero show up shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. But when that Super Hero isn’t a mutant in a game about mutants—such as the case with Iron Man in “X-Men Legends II”—it feels a bit unexpected. And it wasn’t just a cameo—Iron Man was even a playable character! All that was missing was Tony building armor suits for all the other X-Men to wear into battle!

2. "The Punisher"
Garth Ennis wrote the script to 2004’s Xbox/PS2 Punisher game, and in addition to the expected missions in crack houses and mafia hideouts, he also worked Stark Industries into the story. Tony didn’t show up until late in the level, but the line he left Frank Castle with after all the madness went down was pretty memorable: “I need a drink.”

1. "Tony Hawk’s Underground"
It wasn’t just Iron Man’s appearing as a skater that could challenge the skills of that other Tony guy in “THUG” that seemed so weird—it was the fact that you could perform all of Shellhead’s sick moves in the unlockable KISS stage as well. I guess making it a Black Sabbath stage would have been too much.

One last thing, we had a blast at New York Comic-Con. There was a playable build of the "Iron Man" Xbox 360 game there (you can go to Xbox Live and download the demo now) and Sega also showed the "Incredible Hulk" game to the public for the first time. The reaction was great in both cases.

In addition, there were a couple of really exciting panels at the show, one was the "Incredible Hulk" movie panel and the other was our Marvel video games panel, which featured developers from the "Iron Man" & "Incredible Hulk" teams. Thanks to those who came by the booth to check out the games and especially to the big group we had at the games panel.

This week’s the big week for our armored Avenger, so I hope you have your "Iron Man" game pre-ordered and already have some movie tickets purchased—It’s Iron Man week!!! Enjoy!!!

--Justin

Also
Do you guys have a forum account by any chance on these boards? :)

Posted by Aziroth on 2008-04-28 16:29:55

1 more question to many others
http://www.marvel.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=115906

The author (and at least two others) of a thread in the Upcoming Releases section of Marvel.com's boards (the link to his thread is posted at the top of this post) is pretty much wondering about a Marvel game based on the comic series: "The Ultimates."

And I was wondering myself, considering there is an Ultimate Spider-Man game that was released several years ago, what would be the liklihood of an Ultimates game coming out sometime in the future?

Thanks.

Posted by Aziroth on 2008-04-28 17:24:56

Can you clarify something?
Is MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 2 still coming out this year?

Some web sites quote an Activision rep at NYCC saying it will be delayed to give SPIDER-MAN: Web of Shadows room, but most have since retracted that saying the rep was misquotes. So there are now a LOT of conflicting reports out there. Anything you can tell us?

Posted by Gentleman Jack on 2008-04-28 23:01:54

er... "misquoted" ...

Posted by Gentleman Jack on 2008-04-28 23:02:20

Any info on MUA 2?
Any info you could provide would be most appreciated! There are a lot of conflicting reports and I for one would love to have it cleared up. Is MUA 2 going to be a Holiday 2008 release or not?

Posted by Howlingatthemoon on 2008-04-29 00:44:13

THU
Hey, if Tony Stark can build a piece of armour that can do the dance from Napoleon Dinomite, he can sure as hell build a piece of armour that can outskate Tony Hawk. Hell, that'd probably be the first thing I put into the armour.

Posted by Medalionsoldier on 2008-04-29 10:51:10

Uhhh...
When will the next blog come? :)

Posted by Aziroth on 2008-05-08 17:55:09

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