Iron Man for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

I rented this with the knowledge that most movie adaptation games are pretty weak and upon playing was pleasantly surprised. It was probably the best adaptation game I've played but it still wasn't perfect.

Controls were a little jerky and took a little bit to get used to but that came pretty quick. The Iron Man graphics were top notch but background scenery a little on the low side but not to bad. The missions were short. I played on easy and normal and there was a huge difference between difficulty. I would have not stood a chance on hard.

If you're just into achievements then this will get you a solid 400-up just on one play through on easy so its decent there. The ones you don't get on first play through are pretty easy to grab on a second try. I think I finished wih missing maybe 6 of the 39 achievements and only played it for two days.

Things you need to know:

- The boss AI is terrible. On several occasions I've managed to get them to simply bounce back and forth in once place doing nothing while I just blast away at them.

- The game tends to get choppy, at least on the 360 version I played. Mainly moving around the terrain, specifically the canyon level, will cause some slowdown. Otherwise it generally scales textures in and out fairly well.

- Did I mention this game is missile happy? The solution to increasing difficulty is to simply throw more missiles at you.This also has the side effect of making the difficulty ramp up drastically and without warning. Prepare to spam chaff for the entirety of some missions.

- Be prepared for "infinite reinforcement" moments where you simply cannot stem said tide of missiles because the jets firing them simply respawn.

- The story feels very disjointed and may as well not even be there.

- Very short. You can finish this in a few hours, same day, easily, on just about any difficulty (possibly barring ultimate due to said missile fetish making some of those missions absurd)

- Difficulty cannot be changed once you start the campaign. If you find later on it becomes much too hard, tough, start over.

-Army of One is simply a replay of the old mission maps with a "kill this many by this time" objective to unlock some armor skins for mission replays and other Army of One missions.

Ultimately, very shiny, and makes you feel pretty badass for the first few missions which is fun, but it's movie game syndrome all over again. It has it's moments, and if you can stand being very frustrated by a few missions (some lovely insta death moments) then it is at least worth a rental.

-(originally posted by myself on GT)