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Thor: God of Thunder Angry Review,
Joe kicks off his Summer the wrong way.
Angry Joe kicks off Summer Break 2011 with a handful of movie-licensed games, may God have mercy on his soul! First up – Thor: God of Thunder! The movie was average (aside from the terrible 3D), so how does the game hold up? About as well as you’d imagine. Can the mighty God of Thunder prevail over the movie license curse?
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I have a theory – the quality of a movie-licensed game is inversely proportional to the quality of the movie itself.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the last good movie-licensed game I’ve played. The Wolverine movie was pretty bad, but the game was awesome.
Thor was a pretty decent movie and both Iron Man movies were great; therefore, the games were doomed from the start.
joe you want a good movie licence game here are some:
the warriors
back to the future (telltale)
star wars games
golden eye both wii and n64
lord of the rings
ghostbusters
I can tell i’m a huge fan of Hack n’ Slash games… But nobody deserves Copy & Paste.
Talking about God of War and Devil May Cry… The PSOne have one of my favorites Hack n’ Slash games, with cool puzzles, combos and spells… And sure it is Soul Reaver (Legacy of Kain series).
Devil May Cry and God of War are really cool indeed, but I feel they lack on the variations of combos and the “automatic stuff” (talking about Nero and the grab stuff on DMC 4), and I only see that when i play Bayonetta, wich on the very BEGINNING, you start with more 100 combos when actually change with a lot of weapons combinations and stuff, not to tell about the finishes.
Excelent review… I don’t know how you have the patience to play those games, you really have my admiration. Can’t wait to see the Lantern one, I hope you don’t have a heart attack xD
the 3d tvs are actual very good
Hey, Joe’s going red. I can’t help but be reminded of Black Lantern Spoony.
batman begins was a kick ass game, because it was really splinter cell .. why cant other games be that good for movies?
Thor looked…Painful.
Although if you want a recommendation for a Movie Licence game that might not blow monkeys, take a look at the Tie In for Dark of the Moon. While I haven’t touched the game (and thus can’t speak from experiance), I do hear it’s decent enough (or at least, this is what Kotaku has said).
Pretty well done review of the game. You said it up front. Really the kill all enemies to open doors formula only works when you can customize your characters up the wazoo and the enemies drop loot that you can equip.
The way you were leading into movie licensed games not sucking had me thinking you were ready to put up your final score for the whole on Back to the Future The Game. Guess you’ve got something else to take care of first though.
Ha! “Isn’t God of War technically a Devil May Cry clone?” nice one XD
People actually SAID that when GoW came out “oh it’s just a DMC clone”
That proves that copying a system is NOT the problem, there’s MUCH MORE to a game than meets the eye (oh Transformer 3 game noooooooo)
Also, we really shouldn’t use the word “clone” for things that CLEARLY DON’T EVEN COME CLOSE to the original >.<
When I see a piece of sh*t games like this. Well I am really grateful to god that I DO NOT HAVE x-box 360 and that I’m not in your place Joe
:D
p.S. and THANK GOD it didn’t come out on PC or I would have played it.
Joe Vargas of Earth. You belong to the Red Lantern Corps!
Joe!
3D in movies = Bad
3D Games from 3D Movies = WTH
3D in Good Games = Worth of trying
and one thing: Yeah DNF wasn’t good game you don’t need to remind about it
Fighting waves upon waves of enemies to make a door magically open?
So, a Serious Sam clone?
“I dress up for every one of these reviews!”
………I want Joe to do Alice: Madness Returns……..you hear me Joe….I WANT YOU TO GET PRETTY!!!
My children, do not believe the lies of Angry Joe. He has come here to mislead you! Coco Pebbles is the superior of the Pebbles cereal. Tis true!
Oh hell yes you will review it. And thanks for telling us.
You and your friend joe should do a brad and jerrid thing and call it Joe and Joe.
The way you described this game actually reminds me of the campaign version of Mortal Kombat Armageddon.
Just a linear progression from one locked room to the other. Ugh, that sucked. You’re a braver man than me, Joe(s).
Hey guys, anyone knows what’s that music at the end? It’s awesome)
if you want try out a ok movie game, try out the Saw games. if your a fan of the saw movies
I don’t know what was worse: The fact it took almost FOUR MINUTES to get to the actual review, or that your Natalie Portman reference was from A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MOVIE.
There are some good movie games in recent times, but they are kind of rare. I’ve had a fair amount of luck with movie-licensed kids games like the original Kung Fu Panda, the PS3 sequel, Cars 1 and 2, Surf’s Up, and Lego Indiana Jones and Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, since they came out alongside their respective movies. Obviously my standards are lower for movie-based games but the controls are decent, the graphics are good, and there is clear respect shown for the movie.
Well, to be fair, the Lego games aren’t specifically based off movies so much as franchises.
This makes me wonder how much money people have saved because Joe and everyone else at Blistered Thumbs helps us find the best games while steering us away from the horribly bad games like this.
Must be quite a huge pile of money.
Aah, good to see Joe getting really enraged again. It feels like I haven’t seen that for a while.
Can’t wait for the Green Lantern review. Heh heh hee…
Well there are some great movie licensed games like star wars.
Which one?
Because the best (and one of the few) Star Wars games that really kicked ass was Knights of the Old Republic. There’s been a few others, like Rogue Squadron (which was okay), but they’re pretty thin these days amongst the piles of bad ones.
I can’t believe people keep missing out one of the best movie licence games ever, Batman Begins The Official Game, was amazing, it went more into the fear aspect and was actually very good. Another would be the game The Punisher, it was bloodiest game I played and it was enjoyable as you could do kill people in such creative ways, like shoving someone in a woodchipper. I can’t remember the story, but I remember the punishment dished out.
only game I can remember playing with 3d was sly cooper 3. But that was only in a few points in the game. Sucker punch was clearly just experimenting different stuff then, but I dont see why anyone would want to play a game in 3d. Never expected the Thor game to be any good. Hopefully there will be some good games that will come out before the summer ends.
Btw wtf? a godess of war?! is this a part of the comics cause in the mythologi the god of war is a man with one arm!
From reading the Marvel wiki God of War is more of a title of the defender of Asgard in the comics. Tyr was first then Thor, then after Thor started hanging out on Earth Sif tookover probably to try and become closer to Thor.
Yeah Joe the ds game is pretty cool and the graphics in it are great. When you seen that you had to review Thor I think you should have started shouting NO over and over again like in Suburban Knights that was hilarious
Another solid and entertaining review, Joe!
If you can’t go to Earth then you don’t travel between nine worlds as Earth is one of nine worlds. You know, Midgard.
I love you for noting Devil May Cry being first.
I’m sorry for this ungodly (puns=funny) excuse for entertainment.
WHEN WILL THEY LEARN!
With Blood of Rage and Crimson Red,
Ripped from a Game Disc Freshly Dead,
Together with Joe’s Righteous hate,
He’ll burn bad games, that is their fate!
But yeah, Thanks Joe. And you’d think they’d have learned, seeing as people have been putting out overlong repetitive movie tie-in games since almost the year dot. But no, even now, a good 3 or 4 decades after gaming was even born, we get the same old shit, and we’re still overcharged for it. Well, I’m not, I’m a PC gamer, but still, I remember the C64 days, when we had terrible Tie-ins. Then again, Ocean put out a couple of respectable licences in Robocop and The Untouchables. But I’m showing my age now. Anyway, I’m rambling, I go.
To my knowledge, the only good movie licensed games are Goldeneye, Back To The Future, Scarface, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, The Warriors, Spider-Man 2, Blade Runner, and Dune 2000. Beyond that, they suck.
Willow for Arcade was pretty damn awesome
Willow for the NES was even better, I might even argue that it’s better than Batman NES or Zelda itself.
Strange that all these Marvel titles are produced by Sega backed companies. It will be interesting to see how Green Lantern fares… but there might also be a Captain America game on the way too. And I’m surprised that they didn’t try to make an X-Men First Class game… or did they?
And you forgot Ghostbusters: The Video Game, too.
And Scott Pilgrim too
Beware the wrath of Red Lantern Joe lol
Every time I saw you in the costume I chuckled
Another great review! The thriller shout out had me rolling on the floor with laughter!
I wonder how this game compares to Fist of the North star game.
Awesome controller Joe! Is that custom made? I’ve never seen one look like that. Wish I had a badass looking controller to play with.
You have a whole wall in your house that is a green screen? Awesome!
Ever do this with it: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail153.html
Oh God… you just made me miss Homestar Runner all over again.
Your splitscreening skillz have become really impressive, Joe.
“I’ll see you soon, buddy”
You are a terrible, terrible friend.
“If anybody ever says something otherwise to you,”
PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE! Is what you should have said.
what the hell is up with Joe’s hair?
Thank god you’re reviewing these games, Joe. I’d want to kill someone if I spent real money on a title like this and it ended up being… well… like this is! So keep it up, Joe, you are our shield!
Personally, I stopped buying the tie in games of ANYTHING years ago… but I’ll keep watching for that day when you tell us they’re good again.
Fruit Rageous, eh? Someone’s been shopping at the ghetto end of the H-E-B cereal aisle.
Green Lantern wasn’t really that bad actually. It wasn’t ground breaking or amazing, but it was a fun beat ‘em up game and some of the constructs were actually kind of fun. Can’t wait to see that review. But yeah, Thor was God Awful. Played the demo at NY Comic Con, saw how bad it was, and stayed away from it. Captain America was ok in Demo at NYCC too, but I’ll have to wait and see.
So far i have yet to find a movie licensed game better than the Lord of the Rings EA games.
Goldeneye and Spiderman 2. Scott Pilgrim is also a very fun game, especially if you liked River City Ransom.
the new Spidey games are pretty cools… and the 2009 Xmen Wolverine is also interresting… they are the kind of Licence games you may enjoy, because the developpers DO care about the original content. they like it and want to stay true to it.
THIS is just an horrible game by don’t give a fuck studio No. 3456543234567.
Considering what the NC did to Joe this seems a bit mean of him.
Well, I can’t say I’m surprised. It’s really a shame, but it is so incredibly rare to find a good movie licensed game and the little I’d seen told me this wasn’t one of those.
Nonetheless, thanks for giving it a thorough look Joe. At least we know exactly how bad it is now. I can only hope that the Green Lantern game isn’t as bad as this one.
….what!? WHAT!? Colored lightning!? What’s the point of that!?
They really need to up the creativity on games like these. Just because it’s a movie title doesn’t mean they should just breeze through production by giving it a near identical game engine to others. What they need to do is pick a game genre and think of a semi-unique system that works with what goes on with the movie and can satisfy the player’s need for enjoyment. They shouldn’t be holding back like this, this is just pitiful. I want movie license games to work too but this wasn’t the one.
You heard Joe: “Wow! The Thor game was pretty damn awesome! You should play it!” A recommendation that they should be slapped on every copy.
Corporate Commander demands it!
The only thing that will possibly make the Captain America game good would be if they get the original REEEEEB BROOOOWWWNNN!! to do the voice work.
Poor other joe.
Awesome review as always Joe. I can’t wait till every movie license game is good.
Joe, why did you review a movie game? You know it’s going to suck. It’s like an inescapable law of the universe.
Well, at least it makes for a funny video XD
Yeah, most movie based games suck the big ones.
Personally, I haven’t bought a single tie-in game since the N64-era.
1 crappy superhero movie based game down, another to go. Hope you can survivve Joe
I thought Joe was gonna offer the other Joe a Free car! I mean it seems to work ALL the goddamn time.
Thank you Joe. For being the first reviewer EVER to write that God of war is a (good) clone of The superior Devil May Cry.
Good review btw.
agreed with you joe
,
just have to say this: you can’t even compare this to a xbox game,
i know a lot of ps2 games that have better graphics….
Joe, i think you have earn the right to play a GOOD movie licensed game, Chronicles of Riddick; Dark Athena (its the original Chronicals of Riddick game with updated graphics and the expansion pack Dark Athena). Godspeed on Green Lantern.
Joe have you played the god of war games?
Well he’s done with Marvel until Captain America Arkham Asylum comes out.
Just a little note about Mindjack,Joe…when i rented the PS3 version out 2 months ago they seemed to have fixed the A.I a …little bit
(the giant robot boss wasent firing into the ground anymore) HOWEVER i still couldnt beat it and promptly returned the game
as it was still terrible.Just proves for all the patches in the world you still can’t polish a turd.
I’ll resist the urge to rent Thor methinks!
The last good movie based I played was Toy Story 3. It got decent reviews, so I rented it to check it out.
And it wasn’t bad.
It was the 360 version btw.
It’s people like Angry Joe who make me glad i have no friends…
That’s sad…
The extras in this game remind me of the bonus content in Batman Begins. Both were hilarious in that regard.
Also, I’m sure you’re aware of that Captain America game, right?
ahahahahahahahha… can’t stop…l. aug..ghahaha…hing!
man, this month is going to be hillarious!
Other Joe!!!!