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The Kal El of early Superman comics and De Haven's book is the ideal Superman to bring to games. His central conflict isn't stopping an alien invasion, it's where he fits in among people he seems to have nothing in common with. Most importantly: He's a human being that we can relate to and empathize with.

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His costume, for example, comes from the set of a sci-fi movie that was going to film on the set where he works as a stuntman.Р”Вe Haven's Superman gets beat up. Most of his progress towards becoming capital-S 'Superman' is accidental. He doesn't fly, he doesn't know if he's invulnerable or not, he doesn't know the limits of his powers.

My personal favorite is Tom De Haven's 2005 novel It's Superman! which boiled the Last Son of Krypton right down to his essence. There have been really effective takes on Superman that play in this arena of continuity. Now that's a character you could design a game around.

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At the beginning of Superman continuity, he could jump 1/8th of a mile (no flight yet), a 'bursting shell' could pierce his skin and he was faster than a train. It's easy to forget that the demigod we see in movies, TV and comics these days had much more humble roots. My dream game wouldn't just return to the comics for inspiration, it would return to the very beginning of Superman himself.

Making a Superman game work is gonna be tough, and (much like the Arkham series) is gonna need to have its own internal logic and not be tied to an existing property. Save for Superman: Man of Steel on Xbox, it's been two decades since comics were the source material.

The problem with so many Superman games is that they haven't been adaptations of the character, but rather adaptations of existing properties like films and animated series. This is what I, an amateur, would do if I had all the freedom and cash I needed to make the Superman game of my dreams. This is not me telling an imaginary designer of a Superman game what I, an amateur, think they should do. Please keep in mind that I am (1) not a video game designer and (2) have no idea about (and am not that interested in) the politics of making a licensed Superman game while DC has so much riding on its dark, cinematic take. And it occurred to me that if I was going to drop snark bombs on everybody's else's attempt, I could at least cook up one of my own.

The PlayStation version of the game had graphics that were about 95% complete unlike Superman 64 which had unfinished graphics.I spent most of my day yesterday examining why Superman games have failed (and they all have, to varying degrees).

Even though the PlayStation version of The New Adventures was cancelled, demo clips from The New Adventures surfaced on YouTube in the early to mid 2010s.

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In 2002, Infogrames released a game titled Superman: Shadow of Apokolips with the entire cast of Superman: The Animated Series reprising their roles respectively.

The PlayStation version of Superman: The New Adventures was permanently cancelled.

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The game was also cancelled when BlueSky Software lost rights as well and had the Superman license cancelled to avoid issues with copyright.

The PlayStation version of Superman: The New Adventures was cancelled when the Superman license that Titus had expired just shortly before release, and Titus was unable to renew the license.

dumpsters, cars, etc.) and rescue other people in dire peril. The player could also make Superman lift up various heavy objects (e.g. X-ray vision, flight, heat vision, freezing breath, super strength and speed among various other ways of defense and rescue), destroy LexРІР‚в„ўs security cameras and containers of Kryptonite as well as go through metal doors in order to reach Lois and Jimmy and eventually defeat Lex. In the game, the player gets to play as Superman and go through a puzzle like maze (unlike Superman 64 where the player made Superman fly through rings), while going through the maze, the player could use various ways of defense against Lex's robots (eg. Lex Luthor has kidnapped Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.