Iron Man 2 game before film

By Robert Purchese Published 23 March, 2010

Due here at the end of April.

SEGA's Iron Man 2 videogame will be released a week before the film it's based on.

The game - available on DS, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 - will be out on 30th April. The film will follow on 7th May.

SEGA San Francisco will develop and has apparently been working closely with Marvel on the project.

SEGA's first Iron Man effort, released alongside the first film (which was surprisingly decent), was dreadful; an "abysmally implemented spin-off", a "ham-fisted misfire" and a "singularly unpleasant experience", according to the Eurogamer 3/10 review.

Hold your breath, Iron Man 2 could be a stunner.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Timbercottage #1 2 years ago

    I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say - who cares?

  • DB2k #2 2 years ago

    lessons learnt from the last one? Same studio is it?
    5/10 I guess. Just doesn't seem like this movie would make a decent game.

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #3 2 years ago

    The first Iron Man film was good. I'd watch it again and enjoy it.

  • aidey6 #4 2 years ago

    prev game was by secret level on PS3/360 and Artificial Mind and Movement PS2, DS, PC and Wii, I recall the demo and thought not a chance am I spending my hard earned cash on that piece of cr@p

  • dsmx #5 2 years ago

    So instead of being just a piece of crap it's going to be a rushed piece of crap.

  • sonicyoda #6 2 years ago

    I really want this to be good. The change in developer has got to be a good thing but then again, Secret Level aren't completely to blame for the failure of the first game. If I recall correctly, SEGA dumped the Iron Man game on them when they were developing Golden Axe Beast Rider and the had to split the studio in 2 to get both games finished before the deadline. Hence why both ended up being quite poor. If they were given extra time and staff I reckon they could have made 2 cracking games.

  • bluem4gic #7 2 years ago

    I don't care Sega are making it!

  • ChthonicEcho #8 2 years ago

    Oh. Completely forgot about the second film. I thought it is coming this summer.

    Sounds good. The film, apparently. Not the game.

  • ISmoke #9 2 years ago

    Yay. A game based on a film, I can't wait.

  • nuanimal #10 2 years ago

    Oh dear, I played the first Iron Man game in a demo unit in HMV... my God that was bad. So bad. No, seriously bad. The counselling is not helping.

  • Deckard1 #11 2 years ago

    GOTY.












    fact.

  • thepiedpiper #12 2 years ago

    fingers crossed yeah?

  • bodypopper #13 2 years ago

    I'd be more excited if it was Iron Chef vs Iron Man.
    Edited by bodypopper at 23/03/10 @ 16:27

  • cowell #14 2 years ago

    Errrr..... except the UK release date for the film is the 30th April as well, so they're both out the same day

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/
    Edited by cowell at 23/03/10 @ 16:38

  • ignatiusjreilly #15 2 years ago

    These games are the equivalent of Happy Meal toys.

  • SAMagic #16 2 years ago

    I'm with Deckard1: after Batman AA, superhero movie games can never fail, otherwise the universe is inconsistent and therefore not worth living in!



    Seriously, I have no idea what they were thinking with the control system in the last game. Did no one on the team bravely step up and say "You know, this is actually difficult to control, it's not very intuitive."?

  • Darren #17 2 years ago

    I'm sure the movie will be great but the game...? Probably not.

  • Ryze #18 2 years ago

    Guys - the UK release date of the film is April 30th.

    edit: ...said cowell before me!
    Edited by Ryze at 23/03/10 @ 16:55

  • BBIAJ #19 2 years ago

    @sonicyoda:

    I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but SEGA Studios San Francisco IS Secret Level, SEGA bought them out:

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Stud...

    Don't shoot the messenger!

  • sarcasmoidosis #20 2 years ago

    First game was crap. I doubt this will be better.

  • FladgeMangle #21 2 years ago

    Oh the humanity! The train is coming, the car wont start....!

    Somebody should do a non-film Iron Man game in the same vein as Transformers: Battle for Cybertron or Atari's venerated PS2 classic. Then it might even be approaching passable.

  • DFawkes #22 2 years ago

    I quite liked the first one. I know I was the only one on the planet, but given the devs were given quite a bit less than a year to get it done it was a surprise they had somehing that was functional at all.

    I can't see this one being that much better though, they really need time to get the game done. Though even with time you can end up with Superman Returns ;)

  • smelly #23 2 years ago

    >lessons learnt from the last one? Same studio is it?

    Well to be fair - when it comes to movie tie-ins, it's rarely the studios fault a game sucks. There's so much back-and-forth with the movie studio to make sure you dont step on their toes.. and you have to hit a precise finish date (so no extra time for polish), etc etc.

  • Entity #24 2 years ago

    "Due here at the end of April"


    and...
    I'm out!

  • Ryboy #25 2 years ago

    The film will be off the fucking radar. (That means I think it'll be good, sigh.)

    I don't do film / game tie-ins. I don't do game / film tie-ins for that matter either.

    Massive bag of who cares and gives a shite on this one.

    Edit - Epic spelling fail.
    Edited by Ryboy at 24/03/10 @ 07:51

  • BBIAJ #26 2 years ago

    So I get minused for pointing out the truth, eh?

    WTF is wrong with you people!?

    I'll never understand some EG'ers, I really won't...

  • sonicyoda #27 2 years ago

    @BBIAJ

    You probably got negged because of this:

    "With the critical and commercial failure of both Secret Level games published by Sega, the parent company disbanded Secret Level and absorbed selected FEW into the new studio and restarted another recruitment program."

    Emphasis on the word 'few'. Some of Secret Level are a part of SEGA Studios San Francisco, not all of Secret Level. Other than that, it is essentially a new studio.

  • Slipstream #28 2 years ago

    The first game really was cancerous, if you put it in your console it RROD or Yellow lights after about an hour or so.

    But in all fairness I suppose it could be a stunner, I mean, it would totally stun me if it was worse than the first game.

  • YoungPayters #29 2 years ago

    i think the movie will be as bad as the first game, and the game will be as bad as the first game

    plus isnt it a good marketing campaign really since film companys spend well over 150 million on advertising alone, wouldnt a game for 5 milllion do wonders for it, if it was anygood.

    for instance if Batman AA was released around the same time as the studio release of the Dark Knight, imagine the sales that would have done, before anyone realised that it was to do with the comics and the 90's tv show (which was and still is one of the best cartoons in the world)
    Edited by YoungPayters at 25/03/10 @ 00:43