Captain America and The Avengers

Review

by Anthony Baize

Captain America and the Avengers was probably a game that should have never been made. It appears to be thrown together quickly. The gameplay and graphics are not smooth and fluid like other action games in the late 1980s and the early 1990s.

First, the control is shaky at best. When you go to make your character jump, you're never really sure what he's going to do while he's in the air. He might do something good. He might just float there. It's always hit or miss with this game.

Second, Marvel Comics and Data East didn't exactly go all out when they supplied characters for this game. Sure, Captain America and Iron Man are marquee players, but Hawkeye was not extremely popular in the early 1990s (although he probably was at the peak of his fame). And Vision, who the heck is that? Hardcore comics fans know who he is, but few others did. If you were to play this game with three friends and you get stuck with Vision, you better realize that you are the least popular person in your clique.

Third, Captain America and the Avengers felt like too many other games. It was a rip- off of the popular late 80s hit Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game which, in turn, was very similar to games like Renegade and Double Dragon. It looks as though the developers didn't really want to try anything innovative with this game. They just wanted a game on the market quickly before comic book sales began to decline again.

Overall, Captain America and the Avengers is not a great game. The graphics are not extremely bad, but they're subpar when compared to some of the games in the same era. The lack of fluid controls really takes away from this game, which isn't good because there wasn't a whole lot there to begin with.