An early prototype of the game can be found in the Tweet below. DC is full steam ahead with their upcoming games, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League and Gotham Knights but Superman is glaringly missing from the modern. Despite looking like a promising action game, like an early version of Marvel’s Spider-Man but not open-world, the game was shuttered following Factor 5’s unfortunate closure during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. Many DC fans finally got their wish answered after. Factor 5’s canceled Superman game, codenamed Blue Steel, is one of gaming’s bigger what ifs. “Aerial brawling, large urban environments, crashing through buildings, fast target engagement” and more were planned, and the goal was to give Superman enemies to fight in his weight class, with concept art shown of Darkseid, Livewire, and Brimstone. Jordan isn’t done with the superhero genre just yet, with a Superman-connected limited series in development.
The Superman game would have apparently coincided with the release of a sequel to Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns (which also didn’t happen).Īccording to the game would have taken a lot of inspiration from the Justice League Unlimited cartoon, allowing players to cut loose as Superman. The game was reportedly in development at Factor 5, which was responsible for the excellent GameCube game Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader. Superman has been adapted to a number of other media which includes radio serials, novels, movies, television shows and theatre. Video game developer recently shared information on Twitter about a Superman game that she was the lead designer on around 2007/2008. Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, and debuted in the comic book Action Comics 1 (cover-dated June 1938 and published April 18, 1938). Superman has never had much luck when it comes to solo video games, but it seems that a promising game starring the Man of Steel nearly happened more than 10 years ago.