I downloaded and played the 600+ Meg demo of Iron Man the other day, and was pretty unimpressed. The flying is fun, zooming about, dashing, hovering, but the fighting? It encompassed a “look at the enemy to target” function, and consists mostly of just hitting one of the two different attack buttons. Like I was desperate for lock-on capabilities, which either I was too stupid to figure out (a bad sign) or do not exist. I would pretty much just plop myself down in front of a group of enemies, hover-strafe left and right and go all PEW PEW PEW at them till they were dead. Pretty boring.

One thing that seemed interesting however was the mix-and-matching of different armors that you can do before a mission, this might make the game stand out a little when compared to other mindless actiony shooter things. Since it was a demo, only the standard red+yellows were available though.

Oh, also hearing the Robert Downey Jr. sound-alike sputtering off quips every 30 seconds to his goddamned man-servant Jarvis was really grating for me. Enough with the banter Iron Man! You’re Tony Stark, the serious leader of the Avengers, the alcoholic, the man with issues, quit trying to be Spider-Man!!

In other news I pre-ordered GTA4 at Best Buy yesterday. And thus another small part of Colin dies on the inside.

Take a stand!

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