To call Superman for the Nintendo 64 a piece of garbage would be an insult to garbage.
The story (in the loosest sense of the term) consists of Superman trying to save his friends from the clutches of Lex Luthor, who has trapped innocent folks inside a virtual realm in which challenges must be completed in order to get closer to saving the captives. What challenges are present, you may ask? Do you have to punch your way through legions of baddies? Stop a skyscraper from falling on innocent people? Defeat iconic villains from the series? **** NO, YOU HAVE TO FLY THROUGH RINGS! Yes, I am aware that there are more objectives than simply going through ring mazes, but consider the following: would you, after (somehow) beating all the challenges in the first level, want to continue harming yourself by playing through the rest of the tripe this game has to offer? Would you, really?
Don't say "yes" just because you're defiant, you know you wouldn't.
In any case, the controls in Superman 64 are to playability as dysentery is to a dehydrated adventurer: they absolutely kill it. To say the game is "playable" beyond the fact that you can press buttons to have something happen is giving it far too much credit than it deserves. Pressing a button only to have nothing happen is a constant problem this game has, making it the definition of unresponsive. There's issues on the other side of the spectrum as well, such as the flight controls being far too responsive and forcing Superman to headbutt the pavement instead of fly in a straight ******* line. This becomes an immense issue when trying to get through the forced ring sections, handing out the majority of the game overs due to missing two or three rings because Superman wanted to fly in the opposite direction even though the player only slightly nudged the analog stick. Fighting is not as bad (although it's hard to out-horrible the flight controls) but it still has serious flaws, mainly because of the choppy fighting animations and tendency to have Superman stupidly flail his arms ten feet away from the enemy's face.
In the graphics department, Superman 64 is just about as horrible as people say it is. The draw distance is painfully short, giving the player little insight into what obstacles lie ahead and the environments are as bland and uninteresting as a manila envelope...wait, no...MANILA ENVELOPES ARE MORE INTERESTING TO LOOK AT! Nothing in the game world has even the most minute hint of effort, forcing me to come to the conclusion that the folks over at Titus spent the majority of development time wasting all the money they had on pizzas and sleeping whenever actual work had to be done. I can't fathom how someone could make a game look this bad, but Titus made it a reality...I guess that could be considered an accomplishment.
In conclusion, this game is worse than Big Rigs. You know, even though there was really nothing that made Big Rigs look like a structured game, at least you were guaranteed to win. In Superman 64, you're stuck with Superman in limbo trying to figure out how to negotiate some of the most frustrating controls in video gaming history. If you see a copy of this game, smash it...No, that's too good for this game...burn it...
I loathe this game.
I loathe it so much it hurts.
**** this game.
**** the people who made it.
**** the families of the people who made it.
**** the guy who gave this game the green light.
Just...just...****....