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When people engage in making something, it is crucial that they should work together and agree on one set of things. But what happens if those involved in the project have differing opinions in making things and therefore have no or little agreements? That's what happened to Superman 64.

While developer Titus already had a plan to make a Superman game, their licensors Warner Bros. and DC came up with irrational restrictions. I guess the restrictions made things very difficult for Titus which is why the game was unfinished despite two years of work.

Titus wasn't a bad game developer. In fact, they released a much better received N64 game called Automobili Lamborghini two years earlier. Therefore the blame is entirely on the licensors.

When it comes to video games, we should only classify the best among them. We should also document them based on their qualities or importance.

When it comes to what's wrong with some games, we can write about their problems. That way, what we write can serve as lessons to those who consider making games. However, I do not recommend the idea of classifying some games as the worst. For me, classifying the worst is nothing but a way to destroy the image of creators. Game makers want nothing more than to make the people they serve happy. However, certain things can get in the way, thus affecting a game's development. Creating a 3D video game back then wasn't very easy as the technology was new and far more sophisticated than making 2D games. If a game's qualities fall below expectations, we should at least commend the developers for their efforts.

In Titus' case, I bear no cynicism toward them. Instead I feel sorry for them. Superman 64 could have been a great game had it not been for the unreasonable rules dictated by WB and DC.

Superman 64 pisses all over one of the world's greatest superheroes in a truly tremendous insult of a game. It's so insulting to Superman as a character that it's kind of incredible in that respect. There is not a single ounce of 'good taste' in all the bad content this game has to offer, or through the lack thereof. Superman 64 is the most pathetic excuse of a game one could possibly think of. The game doesn't even have proper gameplay and the infamous flying-through-rings sections unfortunately is the majority of the gameplay.

Usually when small-house game developers take on a project with the stable IP of a character like Superman it takes unique and lacking effort to make a game THIS bad. Superman 64 is unfortunately one of those very games. IT. IS. BAD! And Titus may have very well gone bankrupt due to this game's notorious legacy and how it affected their future productions. They were doomed when the limits against the project forced them to make a contrived game that feels like an absolute chore to play through.

This game deserves a zero; I can't give one here but my god does it deserve whatever bad reception it got at the time, and STILL gets now. This is a Class A example of what NOT to do in video game-making.

God! THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE. This game is horrible beyond words. The gameplay, graphics, and sound is all bad, everything is bad about this game. I don't know why Nintendo allowed this game to be release. I think Superman 64 should be ban from stores. I would rather pick up trash in a snow storm than play this game, it's that bad!! WORST GAME EVER!

I give this game 0 out of 10

I had the misfortune of renting this stinker one evening a couple of years ago. I thought it would be fun to use all of Superman's awesome powers to fight the forces of evil. What I got, though, was the opportunity to use Superman's awesome powers to do the butterfly-stroke through the dense green fog of a virtual Metropolis created by the evil mid of Lex Luthor. Seems ol' Lex has Supes trapped in a virtual world (don't ask me how that happened) and is torturing our intrepid hero by making him fly like a drunken blue jay through a series of rings floating all-the-hell-over the place. If you can get past that part, you can pick up a car and fly it to the end of the street. Woo.

The next level has you running about (not much room for the poorly-executed flying) through a sewer system getting the crap kicked out of you by random robot guards. "Use heat-vision," you say? Well, I'd love to. But, true to the comics and movies that we all know and love, the Man of Steel can only use his powers when he finds the little icons scattered around the level, and even at that you have a very limited number of uses. And they're not very effective, anyway.

Well, if you can stay awake long enough to get past the sewer level, then it's back out to the aerial slolam course to herky-jerk your way through the cleverly placed hoops. Luthor, you fiend!!!

Surely they at least put in a decent multiplayer game, right? Ladies and gentlemen, multiplayer is even worse than the single-player experience. It's a kind of mine-cart race between Lex and some of the other characters. I don't think Supes is even available for this. (Maybe he's an "unlockable" character for multiplayer.) You just zip around in your little flying bucket, shooting at your opponent and begging somebody to turn it off.

The graphics are unbearable, the sound is inexcusable, and the story (such as it is) is the dumbest thing you will ever encounter in this lifetime. How can the producers of this all-time classic clunker sleep at night? (It came in at #7 in Electronic Gaming Monthly's "20 Worst Games of All Time" - Jan. 2002 issue. It's hilarious.) All in all, avoid this game at all costs.

The game is a s*%@ ,never buy this game , if you find a copy, of course , the Superman its terrible to control , control his WALKING it so difficult and control the flight is the more hard thing of the world.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Superman looks like a lego man, and the city has no detail. Do you ever remember seeing Superman fly through rings? that's right, it's one of the main objectives in this game! If you miss a ring, it takes about 10 minutes for Superman to turn around. Flying takes about 37 taps of the Z-Button to take off and land. There is alot of fighting...tornados, shadows, CARS, yes, CARS. bottom line DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, DO NOT BE PAYED TO PLAY THIS GAME.

I have the honor of owning a Nintendo 64. I have 2 actually. 1 I got over 10 years ago. I have over 25 Nintendo 64 games and 1 of them is Superman. Lets compare the Good Aspects of the Game with the Bad.

Bad: *The Controls Suck. *The Story Sucks. *The Characters look like Crap. *The Gameplay Sucks. *Titus (The Company who made the Game) Sucks. *The Save Feature Doesn't Work. *You hit a wall and can't move for 20 seconds. *The Punch Sucks. *The Fact I own this Crappy Game Sucks.

Good: *You can turn it off and play Banjo Kazooie.

The story is that Lex has taken your friends and put them in a stupid Virtual World and you have to save them by flying through Rings. I got through the first part which was the 1st of many Flying through Rings stages then I got to this part where you have to Pick up a Car to stop it from hitting a Person. It was at about this time where I Punched the Person or as it looked like randomly move my arms up and down before the Car hit them and then I got game over and had to start at the beginning with the Crappy Rings.

IT IS HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!

Superman is one of those comic icons that cannot seem to appear in a really good movie or a good video game. It has to burn him up to see how successful Batman is as he has been in some good movies and two really good games at least. Granted the original two Superman movies are rather good, nothing else has been 'super'. The best game I have ever played with Superman is a Nintendo game where Superman looks all small and it is not a really good game, but it was sadly a lot more fun than this game and most others I have played featuring the man of steel. Perhaps he should get a better agent? The best representation of Superman I have seen is Superman the Animated series. This game is based off that one so it has to be good right? No, no, no and no. This game was released on the Nintendo 64, the worst of the Nintendo consoles released here in North America not including hand-held units. Not saying it was all bad as the Mario game was good on it, the Zelda games are classics, but all to often games would be of this quality on it. Also, it also seems to be a console completely devoid of traditional role playing games. That is my favorite type of game, and I do not recall playing any on this system and I cannot think of any that were released on this one...the Zelda games being the closest thing, but they are considered adventure. So what to say about this game? Well, most people never get beyond the horrid first level where Superman flies through rings as this is the ultimate challenge the fiendish Lex Luther could think of. My friend apparently never could get passed this, you should of seen the look on his face as I made it through the first time. Not only did I make it through the first set of rings, I made it through the first level. His response was hilarious being something along the lines of, "How the INSERT CURSE WORD did you do that?" I then made it to some horrid sewer level or something and promptly quit. The game is just ugly, nearly unplayable and I just do not believe they could not make a cool game based on the very good animated series. The graphics are the 3D block looking type with no textures or anything. Looks like you are watching that Dire Straits video, only the Dire Straits video looked more detailed. Later I would play Superman Returns, the game based on the mediocre movie and it fared better than this, but it to was a disappointment. Poor Supes just seems destined to never be in a good game.

This game is a screw up like BatMan Dark Tomorrow. The game have terrible controls, worst missions, and FLYING THROUNG RINGS!!!! Who thought this game would be self sold out? I'd rather play with wet dog s**t then this CRAP! The game was so bad that The Angry Video Game Nerd can't beat the game like this is one of the most disappointing game ever created and I hope Titus went down hill after releasing SuperMan 64.

I've heard that this is the worst video game of all time. I've tried to play the game on an emulator 1 time. But the controls are so hard, & glitchy. I'd rather play Spider-Man for the PS1 than this garbage.

Since the game is said to be one of the worst games of all time, i tried it out and it was horribly bad accuracy, bad graphics and hardly unplayable. The game has with Superman trying to save his friends from a bad-looking Lex Luthor and Superman must save them but suddenly he must fly through rings. I cant even bother how much time i need to get to the end of the rings. Just like the first-of-the-half Level you must do hard-challenges then do more rings. What's the point of that.

The only thing good about it is that it has With Malcolm McDowell With and Clancy Brown but the rest of this horrendously bad game is that the Control is awful and the flying is just boring and waste of time. The game has bad companies and no appreciation for Titus

Think hard

1/10

P.S. WORST GAME EVER

Superman 64 got plastered with many bad reviews right from the very start. There was not one single positive comment about this game. Superman 64 lives up to its reputation as one of the worst games of all time.

The controls are frustrating, the game has a lot of bugs, and race mode completely sucks. It's also pointless having a side mission flying through the golden rings to beat the time. That was totally unnecessary.

The polygon graphics aren't that great either. It tried to stay true to the 90's animated series, but it just didn't work.

Despite the fact Superman 64 had a bad reputation, I decided to give it a chance. After 20 minutes I agreed that this was a terrible game. Good thing I hired it from the local video store instead of buying it.

Unless there is a Superman game that is released in future that has the same success as the Batman: Arkham series, I vmcan safely say that I can't see another Superman series taking off any time soon. It has enjoyed much better success in the various movies and TV series and spin-offs.

1/10.

My God this game sucks This game is truly unplayable meaning it has an existing story then the gameplay is not good at all meaning Superman goes through the rings and if you don't enter all the rings you die But sorry How do you die since he it is destructible Exceptfor kryptonite what has to die But the worst thing is the graphics My God how bad are graphics ever put in a video game but you want to know one thing the first three Crash Bandicoot games actually had better graphics than this one But I wonder what it's likepossible of a human being can grant a video game please I ask you please never take this game because you will only waste time playing it since it is not at all spacious to play But when will there be a well-made Superman video game This time since it is the Batman and spider-man games being very successful, to conclude with a rating of 1.

As a kid, I loved "Superman the Animated Series", which this game was based off of. Needless to say, this was a huge disappointment for me. In fact, if I had to name the worst game I ever played, it's this one. It's a broken, half-finished mess that should never have been made.

Lex Luthor has kidnapped Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Professor Hamilton and trapped them in a virtual version of Metropolis. Now Superman must enter this virtual reality to save his friends.

Right off the bat, the game drops you into a timed-ring course with no instructions on how to control Superman at all. You don't even begin with all of his abilities, only flight and super strength. You'll spend half the game in these infamous ring courses, which are infuriatingly difficult given the awkward and unresponsive controls. The pathetic draw distance due to "Kryptonite fog" limiting your vision only makes this harder. You'll even find this fog within the interior sections of the game!

The graphics were atrocious for the time. The character models are blocky and rough; you can barely make out Supermans face. The virtual Metropolis buildings look plain and untextured, and the lifeless streets below are entirely flat and look like playmats. The interior sections are no better with simple designs and textures. The sound effects, like enemy attacks, explosions, and whooshing sounds during flight are repetitive and annoying.

There's bugs and glitches everywhere. You'll find yourself flying through walls, getting stuck in between buildings, falling through the floor, and while trying to solve one particular puzzle, suddenly drop dead for no reason. It's ridiculous.

Outside the ring courses are other tasks that are boring and totally frustrating. During combat, Superman does little besides swinging wildly at generic goons. The bosses are laughably easy, as they possess crappy AI and put up little resistance. Even Darkseid is a total wimp when you fight him.

Needless to say, this game was an absolute disgrace to the Man of Steel that deserves its reputation as one of the worst games ever made and definitely the worst game ever released for the N64.

I actually never played it on N64 before (not even when I was a kid nor a teenager) but I've heard it's one of the worst video games of all time. I've only seen some previews it on the internet and the graphics seem to look cheesy and cr*ppy. Its gameplay doesn't make any sense to me at all. The now-defunct French video game company Titus should be absolutely ashamed of that awful N64 game.

We hope Interplay (which currently owns the Titus catalogue)/Warner Bros. Aren't going to add this to Nintendo Switch Online sometime in the future. If they already have, don't play it on Nintendo Switch! Don't download it from PS Store, Microsoft Store, Steam or GOG.com if it is available either!

I'd better off without playing it.