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Downey, Howard welded to Iron Man

Oscar-nominated actors will lend voices to game tie-in for Marvel's superheroic blockbuster, launching for consoles, handhelds, PC on May 2.

Way back in 2006, Sega and Marvel Entertainment revealed that they were collaborating on a tie-in for the forthcoming film Iron Man, based on one of the latter's comics. Besides giving the game plenty of development time, Sega has announced it is taking another step to make sure the multiplatform game doesn't join the notoriously large pile of critically pilloried superhero-movie-based games.

Today, the Japanese publisher announced it has enlisted the likenesses and vocal talents of Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. (Chaplin, Zodiac, the forthcoming Tropic Thunder). It will be the first game role for the Oscar-nominated actor, who plays Tony Stark, the alcoholic genius inventor who moonlights as the titular superhero. Also on board is fellow former Best Actor nominee Terence Howard (Hustle and Flow, Crash), who is slated to voice Stark's confidant, air force pilot Lt. Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes.

Currently, Iron Man is slated for a simultaneous May 2 release alongside the film. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game are being developed by Secret Level (Golden Axe: Beast Wars), with Artificial Mind working on the PlayStation 2, PC, Wii, and PlayStation Portable versions of the T for Teen-rated game. For more information, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.

61 Comments

  • blazewind191

    Posted May 1, 2008 11:58 am PT

    this game is said to have only 8 hrs of gameplay. that is so short, man...

  • durge666

    Posted Apr 21, 2008 1:51 pm PT

    From the demo, I can tell that this will be different than any other movie tie-in. It's great paced action with easy controls and tons of weapons. The AI is actually pretty stupid since I noticed that none of the enemies were running away screaming. lol A few of the soldiers did say "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!?!?!??!?!," but for the most part, they just tried to shoot at me. Even on formidable difficulty, it's really easy. This game won't suffer from poor gameplay, controls, story, graphics, or framerate. It might suffer from low difficulty, but now that I think about it, you play Iron Man. WTF!! Who can actually beat Iron Man? I mean really. It's gonna be a slaughter-fest for everything except the bosses and super mega flying uber mechs or something... Anyway, it's going to be awesome, but it will be completely overshadowed by GTA IV.

  • Krazy-K

    Posted Apr 9, 2008 8:29 am PT

    I'm actually glad they are doing the VO in the game.

  • thenephariouson

    Posted Apr 5, 2008 11:17 am PT

    Movie / Game tie-ins..... Do i have to say it????

  • blowtrees

    Posted Apr 5, 2008 10:55 am PT

    Looking forward to the flick. I'll try the game out too, I've been an IronMan fan for years. Unfortunately when JoeQ took over at Marvel I had to give it up, that guy is just retarded (shame too, because his artwork is great).

  • Gunface1011

    Posted Apr 3, 2008 9:32 pm PT

    i remember being excited for a lot of movie games but ALL of them were horrible, except for spiderman maybe...

  • BigJ300

    Posted Mar 24, 2008 9:35 pm PT

    actually Gameboy2k , i thought the x-men legends games were pretty badass. i mean, i understand your argument against the multitude of characters, but they were good games. I guess they weren't TRUE movie-game adaptations (although the movie tie- ins, like X3, pretty much sucked), they were released in the same time frame as the movies and they were pretty much designed to take advantadge of the popularity of the movies. but i agree with you, as long as they aren't trying to make the game follow the exact story of the movie (about a 2 hour trip), it could potentially be very good

  • Nitronumber9

    Posted Mar 24, 2008 3:58 pm PT

    Strangely this game seems to get more and more odd. Its been in development for just under 2 years, one of the Sega producers is a comic book fan (See interview one) and its taking an open world approach unlike the last dozen or so games. And it doesn't look like a quick cash in to a film. What worry's me about this though is the fact they have 2 company's working on 2 different releases so somethings bound to go wrong there. And it doesn't look like Iron Man will need to use much apart from his blaster.
    Still looks to be better than 95% of Film to game ideas so its worth keeping an eye on.

  • Mush_Mouth

    Posted Mar 24, 2008 2:43 pm PT

    Anybody notice that whenever the company says that they're taking extra measure to make sure the movie game doesn't suck, it's still mediocre at best? if they'd just make a game with the characters and not even worry about the movies then they'd probably work out better because really, the biggest problem is that these developers have to work within the confines of a movie script with little room to add any of their own ideas in.

  • BringTheBlood

    Posted Mar 24, 2008 9:43 am PT

    game and movie will suck, its always been that way.

  • Hvac0120

    Posted Mar 24, 2008 8:28 am PT

    When they try to release games on all platforms like this and tie it in to a movie, it all ends up being okay at best on only one or two of the systems it was released on.

    Iron Man looks to be a good movie. I'm not sure that the game is going to hold up. Movie studios need to start putting up the money for more focused developers and target either now-gen consoles or back-then consoles - not both. Having two developers helps, but if they are trying to make a similar game across all platforms, you can bet there are going to be problems with every version. Sad to say, but is typical - no matter how much the PR people try to talk it all up.

  • bobo3682

    Posted Mar 24, 2008 7:07 am PT

    don't suppose this guy rhodey might be war machine before becoming war machine? he was bad ass

  • dennis8

    Posted Mar 24, 2008 5:49 am PT

    The movie is shaping up real well, i wish the same could be said for the game though. From what I've seen, the gameplay looks like it'll get old real fast.

  • Gameboy2k

    Posted Mar 24, 2008 5:19 am PT

    I've read the posts about "movie to game translations" and how it's possible "IRONMAN" might be bad. But, this is a cool game idea. Think about it? Ironman could be a videogame idea, even if it was not a comic book and/or movie first. If you look at : (1)Harry Potter.... that is a book and a movie, NOT a game. (2)Spiderman.... again.... a comic book, a decent movie, but those moves he performs are hard to mimic. Camera Angles will always be your worst enemy. (3)Xmen.... a hot comic book, a decent movie, but the character universe is too big. People will complain about their favorite character not being included, and the fighting styles of the characters are not clearly defined.(example, Wolverine is purely hack and slash, not some power slash light display). However, Ironman can be a video game, because all the suit's powers listed within the comic book are clearly defined. Thus, Ironman can be developed into a successful game. I'm going to think positive on this one. Again... think about it.... Iron man.... you can control him. Cool as HE(Double Hockey sticks) (steppin off my soapbox)

  • Solidesnake2004

    Posted Mar 23, 2008 6:44 pm PT

    ill just check out the reviews when it hits store shelves.

  • belwyrm

    Posted Mar 23, 2008 2:23 pm PT

    armydominican69 - The games I actually enjoyed most of those movies.

  • armydominican69

    Posted Mar 23, 2008 11:33 am PT

    @ belwyrm: are you referring to the games of those movies or the actual movies themselvs?

  • Polo136

    Posted Mar 22, 2008 10:41 pm PT

    Movie game!... Don't give your hopes up!

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Mar 22, 2008 1:00 pm PT

    sweet, think that'll be a must have, I almost never buy movie games either

  • Sam_Lowery

    Posted Mar 22, 2008 2:40 am PT

    Instead of buying this movie / game tie in, why don't you give me half the money you were going to spend on it, I'll kick you in the nuts, and we'll call it a day.

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