Underplayed Gems

Superman: Countdown to Apokolips (2003)

Superman: Countdown to Apokolips cover
Platforms
Game Boy Advance
Genres
Platform
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How it feels

A licensed superhero romp where you punch through thugs and monsters as Superman in a quick, comic-book-flavored platform adventure.

action-platformingsuperherocomic-bookbriskmildly tensearcade-ish

About

Lois Lane has been kidnapped, and only the Man of Steel can save her! Agents from the lava-scarred planet Apokolips have come to Metropolis to humiliate Superman before the entire world, right in his own hometown. Enlisting the aid of local mob kingpin Bruno Mannheim, leader of the notorious Intergang, wicked emissary Kanto supplies the gang with out-of-this-world weaponry possessing the power to bring down Superman. While Superman is busy bringing the thugs of Intergang to justice, the beastlike Kalibak seizes the opportunity to abduct Lois and spirit her away to a remote, clandestine location. In the meantime, bad bundle of energy Livewire has busted out of Strykers Island Prison, and she is out for vengeance against the man who put her there--Superman. There is no rest for the Last Son of Krypton as the Countdown to Apokolips begins!

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