It's as basic and formulaic as it sounds. You can also grapple by pinching the screen (which sets off a tappy-tappy mini-game) and unleash heat vision and super-speed attacks once you've powered them up. You have to dodge attacks using 'left' and 'right' virtual buttons, block by touching the screen, and attack by swiping left or right. Playing the big blue boy scout himself, you'll be confronted with a series of pretty bland and generic Kryptonian villains who look like they just ejected from a Top Gun MIG fighter. The game itself can best be described as Infinity Blade-lite, with super-powered punches and heat vision in place of sword swipes. was working off a rough early plot outline and some pre-production artwork. There are scenes roughly equivalent to key points in Zack Snyder's film, but you get the impression Warner Bros. Man of Steel is a tie-in with the current cinematic relaunch, but it's a very loose one. The trouble is, it doesn't offer much else besides. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Man of Steel offers no solutions to these conundrums.

Oh, and you should be able to fly to Brazil in less time than it takes to say 'É um pássaro?' Traditional boundaries such as buildings should be about as effective as cereal boxes. If you're Superman, the very idea of a health bar is nonsense. In cinematic terms that makes it difficult to find a worthy challenge (not to mention a sufficient budget) for Krypton's last son.įor games, this power makes it impossible to do the character justice. The trouble with Superman, as has been well documented over the years, is that he's too damned powerful.

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